linux-kernel - [ 044/135] Remove user-triggerable BUG from mpol_to

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Message-Id: <20120917003632.350926689@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 17 Sep 2012 01:37:09 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Subject: [ 044/135] Remove user-triggerable BUG from mpol_to_str

3.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>

commit 80de7c3138ee9fd86a98696fd2cf7ad89b995d0a upstream.

Trivially triggerable, found by trinity:

  kernel BUG at mm/mempolicy.c:2546!
  Process trinity-child2 (pid: 23988, threadinfo ffff88010197e000, task ffff88007821a670)
  Call Trace:
    show_numa_map+0xd5/0x450
    show_pid_numa_map+0x13/0x20
    traverse+0xf2/0x230
    seq_read+0x34b/0x3e0
    vfs_read+0xac/0x180
    sys_pread64+0xa2/0xc0
    system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f
  RIP: mpol_to_str+0x156/0x360

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 mm/mempolicy.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index bd92431..4ada3be 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2562,7 +2562,7 @@ int mpol_to_str(char *buffer, int maxlen, struct mempolicy *pol, int no_context)
 		break;
 
 	default:
-		BUG();
+		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
 	l = strlen(policy_modes[mode]);


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