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Fix potential crash with sys_move_pages
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 6 Feb 2010 00:16:50 +0000 (16:16 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 22:55:25 +0000 (15:55 -0700)
commit 6f5a55f1a6c5abee15a0e878e5c74d9f1569b8b0 upstream.

We incorrectly depended on the 'node_state/node_isset()' functions
testing the node range, rather than checking it explicitly.  That's not
reliable, even if it might often happen to work.  So do the proper
explicit test.

Reported-by: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>
Acked-and-tested-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
mm/migrate.c

index 598abad88f976bfd832cfa36661319e78bcee6ca..eebfb79d774899af3281306a17f9409c9bfc5c46 100644 (file)
@@ -937,6 +937,9 @@ static int do_pages_move(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *task,
                                goto out_pm;
 
                        err = -ENODEV;
+                       if (node < 0 || node >= MAX_NUMNODES)
+                               goto out_pm;
+
                        if (!node_state(node, N_HIGH_MEMORY))
                                goto out_pm;