Commit-ID: 70d7f98722a7a1df1a55d6a92d0ce959c7aba9fd Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/70d7f98722a7a1df1a55d6a92d0ce959c7aba9fd Author: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 16:35:55 +0100 Committer: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> CommitDate: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 17:05:41 +0100 uprobes: Fix the wrong usage of current->utask in uprobe_copy_process() Commit aa59c53fd459 "uprobes: Change uprobe_copy_process() to dup xol_area" has a stupid typo, we need to setup t->utask->vaddr but the code wrongly uses current->utask. Even with this bug dup_xol_work() works "in practice", but only because get_unmapped_area(NULL, TASK_SIZE - PAGE_SIZE) likely returns the same address every time. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/events/uprobes.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c index 0ac346a..5e56950 100644 --- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c +++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c @@ -1447,7 +1447,7 @@ void uprobe_copy_process(struct task_struct *t, unsigned long flags) if (!work) return uprobe_warn(t, "dup xol area"); - utask->vaddr = area->vaddr; + t->utask->vaddr = area->vaddr; init_task_work(work, dup_xol_work); task_work_add(t, work, true); } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html