From 690dbe1ced143876d8fa56b72310738dbe079d0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 21:11:42 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] x86_64: access of some bad address x86_64 has a large sparse gate area between VSYSCALL_START and VSYSCALL_END, not all of it presently backed by pmds. Alexander Nyberg has found that in some circumstances gdb may try to ptrace here, and hit get_user_pages BUG_ON. It seems odd that gdb should be accessing here, but it certainly shouldn't crash in this way: relax BUG_ON to -EFAULT. Fixes kernel bugzilla #4801. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/memory.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 4e1c673784d..2405289dfdf 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -910,9 +910,13 @@ int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm, pud = pud_offset(pgd, pg); BUG_ON(pud_none(*pud)); pmd = pmd_offset(pud, pg); - BUG_ON(pmd_none(*pmd)); + if (pmd_none(*pmd)) + return i ? : -EFAULT; pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, pg); - BUG_ON(pte_none(*pte)); + if (pte_none(*pte)) { + pte_unmap(pte); + return i ? : -EFAULT; + } if (pages) { pages[i] = pte_page(*pte); get_page(pages[i]); -- 2.20.1