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authorPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>2010-04-07 18:23:41 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-04-09 19:09:50 +0200
commitd3e06e2b15590b70ea73733fc4612e4741ff46e0 (patch)
tree021d71809197d8a195708ec9b3b114a0aa6eaa9c /mm
parentslab: Generify kernel pointer validation (diff)
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slub: Fix kmem_ptr_validate() for non-kernel pointers
As suggested by Linus, fix up kmem_ptr_validate() to handle non-kernel pointers more graciously. The patch changes kmem_ptr_validate() to use the newly introduced kern_ptr_validate() helper to check that a pointer is a valid kernel pointer before we attempt to convert it into a 'struct page'. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/slub.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index b364844a1068..7d6c8b1ccf63 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2386,6 +2386,9 @@ int kmem_ptr_validate(struct kmem_cache *s, const void *object)
{
struct page *page;
+ if (!kern_ptr_validate(object, s->size))
+ return 0;
+
page = get_object_page(object);
if (!page || s != page->slab)