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    Subject[ 35/46] Remove user-triggerable BUG from mpol_to_str
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    From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

    3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

    ------------------

    From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

    commit 80de7c3138ee9fd86a98696fd2cf7ad89b995d0a upstream.

    Trivially triggerable, found by trinity:

    kernel BUG at mm/mempolicy.c:2546!
    Process trinity-child2 (pid: 23988, threadinfo ffff88010197e000, task ffff88007821a670)
    Call Trace:
    show_numa_map+0xd5/0x450
    show_pid_numa_map+0x13/0x20
    traverse+0xf2/0x230
    seq_read+0x34b/0x3e0
    vfs_read+0xac/0x180
    sys_pread64+0xa2/0xc0
    system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f
    RIP: mpol_to_str+0x156/0x360

    Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

    ---
    mm/mempolicy.c | 2 +-
    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

    --- a/mm/mempolicy.c
    +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
    @@ -2500,7 +2500,7 @@ int mpol_to_str(char *buffer, int maxlen
    break;

    default:
    - BUG();
    + return -EINVAL;
    }

    l = strlen(policy_modes[mode]);



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