[PATCH] mounstats NULL pointer dereference

OpenVZ developers team has encountered the following problem in 2.6.19-rc6
kernel. After some seconds of running script

while [[ 1 ]]
do
	find  /proc -name mountstats | xargs cat
done

this Oops appears:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
00000010
 printing eip:
c01a6b70
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
SMP
Modules linked in: xt_length ipt_ttl xt_tcpmss ipt_TCPMSS iptable_mangle
iptable_filter xt_multiport xt_limit ipt_tos ipt_REJECT ip_tables x_tables
parport_pc lp parport sunrpc af_packet thermal processor fan button battery
asus_acpi ac ohci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore i2c_nforce2 i2c_core tg3 floppy
pata_amd
ide_cd cdrom sata_nv libata
CPU:    1
EIP:    0060:[<c01a6b70>]    Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010246   (2.6.19-rc6 #2)
EIP is at mountstats_open+0x70/0xf0
eax: 00000000   ebx: e6247030   ecx: e62470f8   edx: 00000000
esi: 00000000   edi: c01a6b00   ebp: c33b83c0   esp: f4105eb4
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process cat (pid: 6044, ti=f4105000 task=f4104a70 task.ti=f4105000)
Stack: c33b83c0 c04ee940 f46a4a80 c33b83c0 e4df31b4 c01a6b00 f4105000 c0169231
       e4df31b4 c33b83c0 c33b83c0 f4105f20 00000003 f4105000 c0169445 f2503cf0
       f7f8c4c0 00008000 c33b83c0 00000000 00008000 c0169350 f4105f20 00008000
Call Trace:
 [<c01a6b00>] mountstats_open+0x0/0xf0
 [<c0169231>] __dentry_open+0x181/0x250
 [<c0169445>] nameidata_to_filp+0x35/0x50
 [<c0169350>] do_filp_open+0x50/0x60
 [<c01873d6>] seq_read+0xc6/0x300
 [<c0169511>] get_unused_fd+0x31/0xc0
 [<c01696d3>] do_sys_open+0x63/0x110
 [<c01697a7>] sys_open+0x27/0x30
 [<c01030bd>] sysenter_past_esp+0x56/0x79
 =======================
Code: 45 74 8b 54 24 20 89 44 24 08 8b 42 f0 31 d2 e8 47 cb f8 ff 85 c0 89 c3
74 51 8d 80 a0 04 00 00 e8 46 06 2c 00 8b 83 48 04 00 00 <8b> 78 10 85 ff 74
03
f0 ff 07 b0 01 86 83 a0 04 00 00 f0 ff 4b
EIP: [<c01a6b70>] mountstats_open+0x70/0xf0 SS:ESP 0068:f4105eb4

The problem is that task->nsproxy can be equal NULL for some time during
task exit. This patch fixes the BUG.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Tarasov <vtaras@openvz.org>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 8df27401d292..795319c54f72 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -442,7 +442,8 @@ static int mountstats_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 
                 if (task) {
                         task_lock(task);
-                        namespace = task->nsproxy->namespace;
+                        if (task->nsproxy)
+                                namespace = task->nsproxy->namespace;
                         if (namespace)
                                 get_namespace(namespace);
                         task_unlock(task);