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author | Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> | 2008-04-28 05:11:47 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-04-28 11:58:16 -0400 |
commit | 556637cdabcd5918c7d4a1a2679b8f86fc81e891 (patch) | |
tree | a5bb95b50e88535966af3ad49017196b757fca64 /mm | |
parent | f022bfd58253099102218db5249220a7f4787114 (diff) |
mm: fix possible off-by-one in walk_pte_range()
After the loop in walk_pte_range() pte might point to the first address after
the pmd it walks. The pte_unmap() is then applied to something bad.
Spotted by Roel Kluin and Andreas Schwab.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
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/pagewalk.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/pagewalk.c b/mm/pagewalk.c index 1cf1417ef8b7..0afd2387e507 100644 --- a/mm/pagewalk.c +++ b/mm/pagewalk.c | |||
@@ -9,11 +9,15 @@ static int walk_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, | |||
9 | int err = 0; | 9 | int err = 0; |
10 | 10 | ||
11 | pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, addr); | 11 | pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, addr); |
12 | do { | 12 | for (;;) { |
13 | err = walk->pte_entry(pte, addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE, private); | 13 | err = walk->pte_entry(pte, addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE, private); |
14 | if (err) | 14 | if (err) |
15 | break; | 15 | break; |
16 | } while (pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end); | 16 | addr += PAGE_SIZE; |
17 | if (addr == end) | ||
18 | break; | ||
19 | pte++; | ||
20 | } | ||
17 | 21 | ||
18 | pte_unmap(pte); | 22 | pte_unmap(pte); |
19 | return err; | 23 | return err; |