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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2007-11-15 14:32:04 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-11-15 19:36:27 +0300
commitd32ddd8f20e7d7a49c45c337c2079be03c77dc41 (patch)
treea56dae80e045a8928bb8da74e6edb3874d297ee2 /mm/slob.c
parenta3474224e6a01924be40a8255636ea5522c1023a (diff)
downloadlinux-d32ddd8f20e7d7a49c45c337c2079be03c77dc41.tar.xz
slob: fix memory corruption
Previously, it would be possible for prev->next to point to &free_slob_pages, and thus we would try to move a list onto itself, and bad things would happen. It seems a bit hairy to be doing list operations with the list marker as an entry, rather than a head, but... this resolves the following crash: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9379 Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/slob.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/slob.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slob.c b/mm/slob.c
index 5bc2ceb692ec..08a9bd91a1aa 100644
--- a/mm/slob.c
+++ b/mm/slob.c
@@ -321,7 +321,8 @@ static void *slob_alloc(size_t size, gfp_t gfp, int align, int node)
/* Improve fragment distribution and reduce our average
* search time by starting our next search here. (see
* Knuth vol 1, sec 2.5, pg 449) */
- if (free_slob_pages.next != prev->next)
+ if (prev != free_slob_pages.prev &&
+ free_slob_pages.next != prev->next)
list_move_tail(&free_slob_pages, prev->next);
break;
}