Rather than pass in some random truncated offset to the pid-related
functions, check that the offset is in range up-front.
This is just cleanup, the previous commit fixed the real problem.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/* for the /proc/ directory itself, after non-process stuff has been done */
int proc_pid_readdir(struct file * filp, void * dirent, filldir_t filldir)
{
- unsigned int nr = filp->f_pos - FIRST_PROCESS_ENTRY;
- struct task_struct *reaper = get_proc_task(filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode);
+ unsigned int nr;
+ struct task_struct *reaper;
struct tgid_iter iter;
struct pid_namespace *ns;
+ if (filp->f_pos >= PID_MAX_LIMIT + TGID_OFFSET)
+ goto out_no_task;
+ nr = filp->f_pos - FIRST_PROCESS_ENTRY;
+
+ reaper = get_proc_task(filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode);
if (!reaper)
goto out_no_task;