Commit d8b789ca authored by Stephen Rothwell's avatar Stephen Rothwell Committed by Chris Wright

[PATCH] Fix sys_move_pages when a NULL node list is passed.

sys_move_pages() uses vmalloc() to allocate an array of structures
that is fills with information passed from user mode and then passes to
do_stat_pages() (in the case the node list is NULL).  do_stat_pages()
depends on a marker in the node field of the structure to decide how large
the array is and this marker is correctly inserted into the last element
of the array.  However, vmalloc() doesn't zero the memory it allocates
and if the user passes NULL for the node list, then the node fields are
not filled in (except for the end marker).  If the memory the vmalloc()
returned happend to have a word with the marker value in it in just the
right place, do_pages_stat will fail to fill the status field of part
of the array and we will return (random) kernel data to user mode.
Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
parent fbce4d7f
......@@ -950,7 +950,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_move_pages(pid_t pid, unsigned long nr_pages,
goto out;
pm[i].node = node;
}
} else
pm[i].node = 0; /* anything to not match MAX_NUMNODES */
}
/* End marker */
pm[nr_pages].node = MAX_NUMNODES;
......
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