From 8ce08464d2c749610a52c4d6c7c11080a7eaaef1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 22:07:28 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [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: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> --- mm/migrate.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c index ba2453f9483d..b4979d423d2b 100644 --- a/mm/migrate.c +++ b/mm/migrate.c @@ -952,7 +952,8 @@ 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;