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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: /proc/pid/smaps_rollup: fix no vma's null-deref
I concur, mm-stable looks fine to me as well.

Jann and I conversed today and the tentative decision since this isn't
considered a high-priority security bug is to wait for maple tree to
merge into Linus's branch before submitting this patch to stable.

On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 2:46 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 3 Oct 2022 18:45:31 -0400 FirstName LastName <sethjenkins@google.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Seth Jenkins <sethjenkins@google.com>
> >
> > Commit 258f669e7e88 ("mm: /proc/pid/smaps_rollup: convert to single value
> > seq_file") introduced a null-deref if there are no vma's in the task in
> > show_smaps_rollup.
> >
> > --- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> > +++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> > @@ -969,7 +969,7 @@ static int show_smaps_rollup(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
> > vma = vma->vm_next;
> > }
> >
> > - show_vma_header_prefix(m, priv->mm->mmap->vm_start,
> > + show_vma_header_prefix(m, priv->mm->mmap ? priv->mm->mmap->vm_start : 0,
> > last_vma_end, 0, 0, 0, 0);
> > seq_pad(m, ' ');
> > seq_puts(m, "[rollup]\n");
>
> The current mm tree is very different here. In fact the bug might not
> exist any more. Please take a look at the mm-stable branch at
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm?
>
> If no fixes are needed in mm-stable then I guess the process is to
> propose this patch to the stable tree maintainers.
>

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