From 863c47028eb469c9e6c4e4287b01bea2bbf78766 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexey Dobriyan Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:56:53 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Fix NULL ->nsproxy dereference in /proc/*/mounts /proc/*/mounstats was fixed, all right, but... To reproduce: while true; do find /proc -type f 2>/dev/null | xargs cat 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null; done BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000c printing eip: c01754df *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#28] Modules linked in: af_packet ohci_hcd e1000 ehci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore xfs CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.20-rc5 #1) EIP is at mounts_open+0x1c/0xac eax: 00000000 ebx: d5898ac0 ecx: d1d27b18 edx: d1d27a50 esi: e6083e10 edi: d3c87f38 ebp: d5898ac0 esp: d3c87ef0 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process cat (pid: 18071, ti=d3c86000 task=f7d5f070 task.ti=d3c86000) Stack: d5898ac0 e6083e10 d3c87f38 c01754c3 c0147c91 c18c52c0 d343f314 d5898ac0 00008000 d3c87f38 ffffff9c c0147e09 d5898ac0 00000000 00000000 c0147e4b 00000000 d3c87f38 d343f314 c18c52c0 c015e53e 00001000 08051000 00000101 Call Trace: [] mounts_open+0x0/0xac [] __dentry_open+0xa1/0x18c [] nameidata_to_filp+0x31/0x3a [] do_filp_open+0x39/0x40 [] seq_read+0x128/0x2aa [] do_sys_open+0x3a/0x6d [] sys_open+0x1c/0x20 [] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x85 [] unix_stream_recvmsg+0x3bf/0x4bf ======================= Code: 5d c3 89 d8 e8 06 e0 f9 ff eb bd 0f 0b eb fe 55 57 56 53 89 d5 8b 40 f0 31 d2 e8 02 c1 fa ff 89 c2 85 c0 74 5c 8b 80 48 04 00 00 <8b> 58 0c 85 db 74 02 ff 03 ff 4a 08 0f 94 c0 84 c0 75 74 85 db EIP: [] mounts_open+0x1c/0xac SS:ESP 0068:d3c87ef0 A race with do_exit()'s call to exit_namespaces(). Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/proc/base.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c index 77a57b5799c..ff7a6685060 100644 --- a/fs/proc/base.c +++ b/fs/proc/base.c @@ -371,9 +371,11 @@ static int mounts_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) if (task) { task_lock(task); - ns = task->nsproxy->mnt_ns; - if (ns) - get_mnt_ns(ns); + if (task->nsproxy) { + ns = task->nsproxy->mnt_ns; + if (ns) + get_mnt_ns(ns); + } task_unlock(task); put_task_struct(task); } -- cgit v1.2.3