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authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>2007-01-26 00:56:53 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-01-26 13:50:58 -0800
commit863c47028eb469c9e6c4e4287b01bea2bbf78766 (patch)
treef07723f0bcdfd0f724ab8717a01e0a290f3bae98 /fs/proc
parentc633090e3105e779c97d4978e5e3d7d66b291cfb (diff)
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[PATCH] Fix NULL ->nsproxy dereference in /proc/*/mounts
/proc/*/mounstats was fixed, all right, but... To reproduce: while true; do find /proc -type f 2>/dev/null | xargs cat 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null; done BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000c printing eip: c01754df *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#28] Modules linked in: af_packet ohci_hcd e1000 ehci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore xfs CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c01754df>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.20-rc5 #1) EIP is at mounts_open+0x1c/0xac eax: 00000000 ebx: d5898ac0 ecx: d1d27b18 edx: d1d27a50 esi: e6083e10 edi: d3c87f38 ebp: d5898ac0 esp: d3c87ef0 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process cat (pid: 18071, ti=d3c86000 task=f7d5f070 task.ti=d3c86000) Stack: d5898ac0 e6083e10 d3c87f38 c01754c3 c0147c91 c18c52c0 d343f314 d5898ac0 00008000 d3c87f38 ffffff9c c0147e09 d5898ac0 00000000 00000000 c0147e4b 00000000 d3c87f38 d343f314 c18c52c0 c015e53e 00001000 08051000 00000101 Call Trace: [<c01754c3>] mounts_open+0x0/0xac [<c0147c91>] __dentry_open+0xa1/0x18c [<c0147e09>] nameidata_to_filp+0x31/0x3a [<c0147e4b>] do_filp_open+0x39/0x40 [<c015e53e>] seq_read+0x128/0x2aa [<c0147e8c>] do_sys_open+0x3a/0x6d [<c0147efa>] sys_open+0x1c/0x20 [<c0102b76>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x85 [<c02a0033>] unix_stream_recvmsg+0x3bf/0x4bf ======================= Code: 5d c3 89 d8 e8 06 e0 f9 ff eb bd 0f 0b eb fe 55 57 56 53 89 d5 8b 40 f0 31 d2 e8 02 c1 fa ff 89 c2 85 c0 74 5c 8b 80 48 04 00 00 <8b> 58 0c 85 db 74 02 ff 03 ff 4a 08 0f 94 c0 84 c0 75 74 85 db EIP: [<c01754df>] mounts_open+0x1c/0xac SS:ESP 0068:d3c87ef0 A race with do_exit()'s call to exit_namespaces(). Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/base.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 77a57b5..ff7a668 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -371,9 +371,11 @@ static int mounts_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
if (task) {
task_lock(task);
- ns = task->nsproxy->mnt_ns;
- if (ns)
- get_mnt_ns(ns);
+ if (task->nsproxy) {
+ ns = task->nsproxy->mnt_ns;
+ if (ns)
+ get_mnt_ns(ns);
+ }
task_unlock(task);
put_task_struct(task);
}
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