2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Mikulas Patocka commit 0e0497c0c017664994819f4602dc07fd95896c52 upstream. The parser reads the argument count as a number but doesn't check that sufficient arguments are supplied. This command triggers the bug: dmsetup create mpath --table "0 `blockdev --getsize /dev/mapper/cr0` multipath 0 0 2 1 round-robin 1000 0 1 1 /dev/mapper/cr0 round-robin 0 1 1 /dev/mapper/cr1 1000" kernel BUG at drivers/md/dm-mpath.c:530! Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/md/dm-mpath.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c @@ -540,6 +540,12 @@ static int parse_path_selector(struct ar return -EINVAL; } + if (ps_argc > as->argc) { + dm_put_path_selector(pst); + ti->error = "not enough arguments for path selector"; + return -EINVAL; + } + r = pst->create(&pg->ps, ps_argc, as->argv); if (r) { dm_put_path_selector(pst); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/