-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
------------------
Make sure maxnodes is safe size before calculating nlongs in
get_nodes().
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
[chrisw: fix units, pointed out by Andi]
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
mm/mempolicy.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- linux-2.6.15.4.orig/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ linux-2.6.15.4/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -524,6 +524,8 @@ static int get_nodes(nodemask_t *nodes,
nodes_clear(*nodes);
if (maxnode == 0 || !nmask)
return 0;
+ if (maxnode > PAGE_SIZE*BITS_PER_BYTE)
+ return -EINVAL;
nlongs = BITS_TO_LONGS(maxnode);
if ((maxnode % BITS_PER_LONG) == 0)
--
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