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Date:	Fri, 8 Nov 2013 16:57:35 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Anton Arapov <aarapov@...hat.com>, David Smith <dsmith@...hat.com>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] uprobes: Fix the wrong usage of current->utask in
	uprobe_copy_process()

Commit aa59c53fd459 "uprobes: Change uprobe_copy_process() to dup
xol_area" has a stupid typo, we need to setup t->utask->vaddr but
the code wrongly uses current->utask.

Even with this bug dup_xol_work() works "in practice", but only
because get_unmapped_area(NULL, TASK_SIZE - PAGE_SIZE) likely
returns the same address every time.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/events/uprobes.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 26fdd65..847201f 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -1446,7 +1446,7 @@ void uprobe_copy_process(struct task_struct *t, unsigned long flags)
 	if (!work)
 		return uprobe_warn(t, "dup xol area");
 
-	utask->vaddr = area->vaddr;
+	t->utask->vaddr = area->vaddr;
 	init_task_work(work, dup_xol_work);
 	task_work_add(t, work, true);
 }
-- 
1.5.5.1


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