[tip:core/urgent] futex: Check for NULL keys in match_futex

From: tip-bot for Darren Hart
Date: Wed Oct 14 2009 - 16:14:03 EST


Commit-ID: 2bc872036e1c5948b5b02942810bbdd8dbdb9812
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/2bc872036e1c5948b5b02942810bbdd8dbdb9812
Author: Darren Hart <dvhltc@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:12:39 -0700
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:00:14 +0200

futex: Check for NULL keys in match_futex

If userspace tries to perform a requeue_pi on a non-requeue_pi waiter,
it will find the futex_q->requeue_pi_key to be NULL and OOPS.

Check for NULL in match_futex() instead of doing explicit NULL pointer
checks on all call sites. While match_futex(NULL, NULL) returning
false is a little odd, it's still correct as we expect valid key
references.

Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: John Stultz <johnstul@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
LKML-Reference: <4AD60687.10306@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/futex.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 5c88839..06938e5 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -150,7 +150,8 @@ static struct futex_hash_bucket *hash_futex(union futex_key *key)
*/
static inline int match_futex(union futex_key *key1, union futex_key *key2)
{
- return (key1->both.word == key2->both.word
+ return (key1 && key2
+ && key1->both.word == key2->both.word
&& key1->both.ptr == key2->both.ptr
&& key1->both.offset == key2->both.offset);
}
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