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authorSonny Rao <sonnyrao@us.ibm.com>2009-07-10 18:13:13 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-07-11 12:40:44 +0200
commitce2ae53b750abfaa012ce408e93da131a5b5649b (patch)
tree7d380e51a49ad40fc08044ed8050243080280273 /kernel
parentf00caa76297a534e30c3ec85382fbc3fd0dcbc69 (diff)
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futexes: Fix infinite loop in get_futex_key() on huge page
get_futex_key() can infinitely loop if it is called on a virtual address that is within a huge page but not aligned to the beginning of that page. The call to get_user_pages_fast will return the struct page for a sub-page within the huge page and the check for page->mapping will always fail. The fix is to call compound_head on the page before checking that it's mapped. Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: anton@samba.org Cc: rajamony@us.ibm.com Cc: speight@us.ibm.com Cc: mstephen@us.ibm.com Cc: grimm@us.ibm.com Cc: mikey@ozlabs.au.ibm.com LKML-Reference: <20090710231313.GA23572@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/futex.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 794c862125fe..0672ff88f159 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -247,6 +247,7 @@ again:
if (err < 0)
return err;
+ page = compound_head(page);
lock_page(page);
if (!page->mapping) {
unlock_page(page);