[ 11/27] ipc: set msg back to -EAGAIN if copy wasnt performed

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun Apr 14 2013 - 22:47:39 EST


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

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From: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 2dc958fa2fe6987e7ab106bd97029a09a82fcd8d upstream.

Make sure that msg pointer is set back to error value in case of
MSG_COPY flag is set and desired message to copy wasn't found. This
garantees that msg is either a error pointer or a copy address.

Otherwise the last message in queue will be freed without unlinking from
the queue (which leads to memory corruption) and the dummy allocated
copy won't be released.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
ipc/msg.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/ipc/msg.c
+++ b/ipc/msg.c
@@ -872,6 +872,7 @@ long do_msgrcv(int msqid, void __user *b
goto out_unlock;
break;
}
+ msg = ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN);
} else
break;
msg_counter++;


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