Commit 42862298 authored Mar 31, 2006 by Kirill Korotaev Committed by Linus Torvalds Mar 31, 2006

[PATCH] wrong error path in dup_fd() leading to oopses in RCU



Wrong error path in dup_fd() - it should return NULL on error,
not an address of already freed memory :/

Triggered by OpenVZ stress test suite.

What is interesting is that it was causing different oopses in RCU like
below:
Call Trace:
   [<c013492c>] rcu_do_batch+0x2c/0x80
   [<c0134bdd>] rcu_process_callbacks+0x3d/0x70
   [<c0126cf3>] tasklet_action+0x73/0xe0
   [<c01269aa>] __do_softirq+0x10a/0x130
   [<c01058ff>] do_softirq+0x4f/0x60
   =======================
   [<c0113817>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x77/0x110
   [<c0103b54>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x1c/0x24
  Code:  Bad EIP value.
   <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

Signed-Off-By: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@sw.ru>
Signed-Off-By: Dmitry Mishin <dim@openvz.org>
Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-Off-By: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent e358c1a2

kernel/fork.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -725,7 +725,7 @@ out_release:
		free_fdset (new_fdt->open_fds, new_fdt->max_fdset);
		free_fd_array(new_fdt->fd, new_fdt->max_fds);
		kmem_cache_free(files_cachep, newf);
		goto out;
		return NULL;
		}

		static int copy_files(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct * tsk)

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