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authorKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>2010-04-07 01:34:42 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-04-07 19:38:02 +0400
commita3a2e76c77fa22b114e421ac11dec0c56c3503fb (patch)
treecc67bbd8d5d364e55ea7a00d0b5ad68d5eac08ac /mm
parentb01d0942c2b7a3026d2b7d38b5773d3d00420e06 (diff)
downloadlinux-a3a2e76c77fa22b114e421ac11dec0c56c3503fb.tar.xz
mm: avoid null-pointer deref in sync_mm_rss()
- We weren't zeroing p->rss_stat[] at fork() - Consequently sync_mm_rss() was dereferencing tsk->mm for kernel threads and was oopsing. - Make __sync_task_rss_stat() static, too. Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15648 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove the BUG_ON(!mm->rss)] Reported-by: Troels Liebe Bentsen <tlb@rapanden.dk> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 1d2ea39260e5..833952d8b74d 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -125,13 +125,12 @@ core_initcall(init_zero_pfn);
#if defined(SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING)
-void __sync_task_rss_stat(struct task_struct *task, struct mm_struct *mm)
+static void __sync_task_rss_stat(struct task_struct *task, struct mm_struct *mm)
{
int i;
for (i = 0; i < NR_MM_COUNTERS; i++) {
if (task->rss_stat.count[i]) {
- BUG_ON(!mm);
add_mm_counter(mm, i, task->rss_stat.count[i]);
task->rss_stat.count[i] = 0;
}