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Subject[ 66/85] Remove user-triggerable BUG from mpol_to_str
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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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

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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.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@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
mm/mempolicy.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2536,7 +2536,7 @@ int mpol_to_str(char *buffer, int maxlen
break;

default:
- BUG();
+ return -EINVAL;
}

l = strlen(policy_modes[mode]);



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