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| author | Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> | 2008-10-29 14:01:20 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-10-30 11:38:47 -0700 |
| commit | 731572d39fcd3498702eda4600db4c43d51e0b26 (patch) | |
| tree | f892907ae20539845f353d72d2a2bf202b67e007 /mm/mmap.c | |
| parent | 6c89161b10f5771ee0b51ada0fce0e8835e72ade (diff) | |
| download | lwn-731572d39fcd3498702eda4600db4c43d51e0b26.tar.gz lwn-731572d39fcd3498702eda4600db4c43d51e0b26.zip | |
nfsd: fix vm overcommit crash
Junjiro R. Okajima reported a problem where knfsd crashes if you are
using it to export shmemfs objects and run strict overcommit. In this
situation the current->mm based modifier to the overcommit goes through a
NULL pointer.
We could simply check for NULL and skip the modifier but we've caught
other real bugs in the past from mm being NULL here - cases where we did
need a valid mm set up (eg the exec bug about a year ago).
To preserve the checks and get the logic we want shuffle the checking
around and add a new helper to the vm_ security wrappers
Also fix a current->mm reference in nommu that should use the passed mm
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Reported-by: Junjiro R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mmap.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/mmap.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index 74f4d158022e..de14ac21e5b5 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -175,7 +175,8 @@ int __vm_enough_memory(struct mm_struct *mm, long pages, int cap_sys_admin) /* Don't let a single process grow too big: leave 3% of the size of this process for other processes */ - allowed -= mm->total_vm / 32; + if (mm) + allowed -= mm->total_vm / 32; /* * cast `allowed' as a signed long because vm_committed_space |