[patch 17/22] IPC: access to unmapped vmalloc area in grow_ary()

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

>From Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>

[PATCH] IPC: access to unmapped vmalloc area in grow_ary()

grow_ary() should not copy struct ipc_id_ary (it copies new->p, not
new). Due to this, memcpy() src pointer could hit unmapped vmalloc page
when near page boundary.

Found during OpenVZ stress testing

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 ipc/util.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.16.9.orig/ipc/util.c
+++ linux-2.6.16.9/ipc/util.c
@@ -182,8 +182,7 @@ static int grow_ary(struct ipc_ids* ids,
 	if(new == NULL)
 		return size;
 	new->size = newsize;
-	memcpy(new->p, ids->entries->p, sizeof(struct kern_ipc_perm *)*size +
-					sizeof(struct ipc_id_ary));
+	memcpy(new->p, ids->entries->p, sizeof(struct kern_ipc_perm *)*size);
 	for(i=size;i<newsize;i++) {
 		new->p[i] = NULL;
 	}

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