On 11/08/2010 10:21 AM, Steve French wrote: > On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 16:44:46 +0000 (GMT) >> Kjell Rune Skaaraas <kjella79@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> After upgrading from 2.6.36 for other reasons, starting certain apps like wine utorrent.exe will cause a kernel oops. I run the x86_64 version of Ubuntu 10.10 with various modified packages all around and the 2.6.37-rc1 kernel from the kernel PPA team. I experienced the same with a kernel I tried compiling myself too. >>> >>> Nov ý7 17:25:50 wodan kernel: [77498.450787] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000040 >>> Nov ý7 17:25:50 wodan kernel: [77498.450883] IP: [<ffffffffa0395729>] cifs_ioctl+0x39/0x2f0 [cifs] Does the below patch fixes your problem? From: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@xxxxxxx> Subject: [PATCH] cifs: fix a NULL pointer dereference in cifs_ioctl() when the fd is bad The commit ba00ba modified cifs_ioctl() to use tcon pointer in cifsFileInfo via tlink instead of cifs_sb->tcon. When the file handle is not valid the cifsFileInfo->tlink will be NULL. Fix this by getting the tcon pointer by calling cifs_sb_master_tcon(). Here's a hackish reproducer: #include <fcntl.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> #define CIFS_IOC_CHECKUMOUNT _IO(0xCF, 2) int main (int argc, char* argv[]) { int fd = open (argv[1], O_RDWR); ioctl(fd, CIFS_IOC_CHECKUMOUNT); close(fd); return 0; } This program will cause an oops when called with cifs mount point as an argument. I have tested the fix with the reproducer and it no longer oopses. Reported-by: Kjell Rune <kjella79@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@xxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/ioctl.c | 6 ++---- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/ioctl.c b/fs/cifs/ioctl.c index 2fa22f2..b8f680a 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/ioctl.c +++ b/fs/cifs/ioctl.c @@ -35,10 +35,10 @@ long cifs_ioctl(struct file *filep, unsigned int command, unsigned long arg) struct inode *inode = filep->f_dentry->d_inode; int rc = -ENOTTY; /* strange error - but the precedent */ int xid; - struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb; + struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb = CIFS_SB(inode->i_sb); #ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_POSIX struct cifsFileInfo *pSMBFile = filep->private_data; - struct cifsTconInfo *tcon = tlink_tcon(pSMBFile->tlink); + struct cifsTconInfo *tcon = cifs_sb_master_tcon(cifs_sb); __u64 ExtAttrBits = 0; __u64 ExtAttrMask = 0; __u64 caps = le64_to_cpu(tcon->fsUnixInfo.Capability); @@ -48,8 +48,6 @@ long cifs_ioctl(struct file *filep, unsigned int command, unsigned long arg) cFYI(1, "ioctl file %p cmd %u arg %lu", filep, command, arg); - cifs_sb = CIFS_SB(inode->i_sb); - switch (command) { case CIFS_IOC_CHECKUMOUNT: cFYI(1, "User unmount attempted"); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html