From: Kirill Korotaev <[email protected]>
[PATCH] wrong error path in dup_fd() leading to oopses in RCU
Wrong error path in dup_fd() - it should return NULL on error,
not an address of already freed memory :/
Triggered by OpenVZ stress test suite.
What is interesting is that it was causing different oopses in RCU like
below:
Call Trace:
[<c013492c>] rcu_do_batch+0x2c/0x80
[<c0134bdd>] rcu_process_callbacks+0x3d/0x70
[<c0126cf3>] tasklet_action+0x73/0xe0
[<c01269aa>] __do_softirq+0x10a/0x130
[<c01058ff>] do_softirq+0x4f/0x60
=======================
[<c0113817>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x77/0x110
[<c0103b54>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x1c/0x24
Code: Bad EIP value.
<0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
Signed-Off-By: Pavel Emelianov <[email protected]>
Signed-Off-By: Dmitry Mishin <[email protected]>
Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <[email protected]>
Signed-Off-By: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
kernel/fork.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- linux-2.6.16.1.orig/kernel/fork.c
+++ linux-2.6.16.1/kernel/fork.c
@@ -720,7 +720,7 @@ out_release:
free_fdset (new_fdt->open_fds, new_fdt->max_fdset);
free_fd_array(new_fdt->fd, new_fdt->max_fds);
kmem_cache_free(files_cachep, newf);
- goto out;
+ return NULL;
}
static int copy_files(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct * tsk)
--
-
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