From 9600be784136611dcab44490998f8d7420ac7a79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 12:01:00 -0400
Subject: Remove user-triggerable BUG from mpol_to_str

commit 80de7c3138ee9fd86a98696fd2cf7ad89b995d0a upstream.

Trivially triggerable, found by trinity:

  kernel BUG at mm/mempolicy.c:2546!
  Process trinity-child2 (pid: 23988, threadinfo ffff88010197e000, task ffff88007821a670)
  Call Trace:
    show_numa_map+0xd5/0x450
    show_pid_numa_map+0x13/0x20
    traverse+0xf2/0x230
    seq_read+0x34b/0x3e0
    vfs_read+0xac/0x180
    sys_pread64+0xa2/0xc0
    system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f
  RIP: mpol_to_str+0x156/0x360

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
 mm/mempolicy.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'mm/mempolicy.c')

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index c0007f916170..11b8d47dc6c1 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2533,7 +2533,7 @@ int mpol_to_str(char *buffer, int maxlen, struct mempolicy *pol, int no_context)
 		break;
 
 	default:
-		BUG();
+		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
 	l = strlen(policy_modes[mode]);
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