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| author | Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> | 2009-02-05 00:12:04 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-02-05 21:56:47 +0100 |
| commit | a68e61e8ff2d46327a37b69056998b47745db6fa (patch) | |
| tree | 2445097933785b26d91577e6f4b41329e8bcd639 /kernel/sys.c | |
| parent | fbmem: don't call copy_from/to_user() with mutex held (diff) | |
| download | linux-a68e61e8ff2d46327a37b69056998b47745db6fa.tar.xz linux-a68e61e8ff2d46327a37b69056998b47745db6fa.zip | |
shm: fix shmctl(SHM_INFO) lockup with !CONFIG_SHMEM
shm_get_stat() assumes that the inode is a "struct shmem_inode_info",
which is incorrect for !CONFIG_SHMEM (see fs/ramfs/inode.c:
ramfs_get_inode() vs. mm/shmem.c: shmem_get_inode()).
This bad assumption can cause shmctl(SHM_INFO) to lockup when
shm_get_stat() tries to spin_lock(&info->lock). Users of !CONFIG_SHMEM
may encounter this lockup simply by invoking the 'ipcs' command.
Reported by Jiri Olsa back in February 2008:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/29/74
Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.everything]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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