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ipc, shm: guard against non-existant vma in shmdt(2)
authorDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:26:28 +0000 (14:26 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 11 Sep 2013 22:59:44 +0000 (15:59 -0700)
When !CONFIG_MMU there's a chance we can derefence a NULL pointer when the
VM area isn't found - check the return value of find_vma().

Also, remove the redundant -EINVAL return: retval is set to the proper
return code and *only* changed to 0, when we actually unmap the segments.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ipc/shm.c

index cb2cedaa880826222a84541ccea8dfbc611cbcfe..a0ed957cefc987c580ef9ce750ac8f4f7209f689 100644 (file)
--- a/ipc/shm.c
+++ b/ipc/shm.c
@@ -1288,8 +1288,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(shmdt, char __user *, shmaddr)
 #else /* CONFIG_MMU */
        /* under NOMMU conditions, the exact address to be destroyed must be
         * given */
-       retval = -EINVAL;
-       if (vma->vm_start == addr && vma->vm_ops == &shm_vm_ops) {
+       if (vma && vma->vm_start == addr && vma->vm_ops == &shm_vm_ops) {
                do_munmap(mm, vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start);
                retval = 0;
        }