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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2006-07-10 07:44:30 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-07-10 16:24:18 -0400
commit06a9ec291b3aec9c7e36af0a10ad2b556bd7e84f (patch)
treea98c1293470967bfa93e250b99b6a0ff129e3dee /kernel
parentbed936f7eab946c60170bc92a1aea597da158e02 (diff)
[PATCH] pi-futex: Validate futex type instead of oopsing
Calling futex_lock_pi is called with a reference to a non PI futex and waiters exist already, lookup_pi_state() oopses due to pi_state == NULL. Check this condition and return -EINVAL to userspace. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/futex.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 1dc98e4dd287..cf0c8e21d1ab 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -476,6 +476,12 @@ lookup_pi_state(u32 uval, struct futex_hash_bucket *hb, struct futex_q *me)
476 * the refcount and return its pi_state: 476 * the refcount and return its pi_state:
477 */ 477 */
478 pi_state = this->pi_state; 478 pi_state = this->pi_state;
479 /*
480 * Userspace might have messed up non PI and PI futexes
481 */
482 if (unlikely(!pi_state))
483 return -EINVAL;
484
479 atomic_inc(&pi_state->refcount); 485 atomic_inc(&pi_state->refcount);
480 me->pi_state = pi_state; 486 me->pi_state = pi_state;
481 487