The patch titled Subject: resource: fix the case of null pointer access has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is resource-fix-the-case-of-null-pointer-access.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/resource-fix-the-case-of-null-pointer-access.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/resource-fix-the-case-of-null-pointer-access.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: resource: fix the case of null pointer access Richard and Daniel reported that UML is broken due to changes to resource traversal functions. Problem is that iomem_resource.child can be null and new code does not consider that possibility. Old code used a for loop and that loop will not even execute if p was null. Revert back to for() loop logic and bail out if p is null. I also moved sibling_only check out of resource_lock. There is no reason to keep it inside the lock. Following is backtrace of the UML crash. RIP: 0033:[<0000000060039b9f>] RSP: 0000000081459da0 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000000219b3fff RCX: 000000006010d1d9 RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 00000000602dfb94 RDI: 0000000081459df8 RBP: 0000000081459de0 R08: 00000000601b59f4 R09: ffffffff0000ff00 R10: ffffffff0000ff00 R11: 0000000081459e88 R12: 0000000081459df8 R13: 00000000219b3fff R14: 00000000602dfb94 R15: 0000000000000000 Kernel panic - not syncing: Segfault with no mm CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 3.16.0-10454-g58d08e3 #13 Stack: 00000000 000080d0 81459df0 219b3fff 81459e70 6010d1d9 ffffffff 6033e010 81459e50 6003a269 81459e30 00000000 Call Trace: [<6010d1d9>] ? kclist_add_private+0x0/0xe7 [<6003a269>] walk_system_ram_range+0x61/0xb7 [<6000e859>] ? proc_kcore_init+0x0/0xf1 [<6010d574>] kcore_update_ram+0x4c/0x168 [<6010d72e>] ? kclist_add+0x0/0x2e [<6000e943>] proc_kcore_init+0xea/0xf1 [<6000e859>] ? proc_kcore_init+0x0/0xf1 [<6000e859>] ? proc_kcore_init+0x0/0xf1 [<600189f0>] do_one_initcall+0x13c/0x204 [<6004ca46>] ? parse_args+0x1df/0x2e0 [<6004c82d>] ? parameq+0x0/0x3a [<601b5990>] ? strcpy+0x0/0x18 [<60001e1a>] kernel_init_freeable+0x240/0x31e [<6026f1c0>] kernel_init+0x12/0x148 [<60019fad>] new_thread_handler+0x81/0xa3 Fixes 8c86e70acead629aacb4a ("resource: provide new functions to walk through resources"). Reported-by: Daniel Walter <sahne@xxxxxxx> Tested-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> Tested-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@xxxxxx> Tested-by: Daniel Walter <sahne@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/resource.c | 11 ++++------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/resource.c~resource-fix-the-case-of-null-pointer-access kernel/resource.c --- a/kernel/resource.c~resource-fix-the-case-of-null-pointer-access +++ a/kernel/resource.c @@ -351,15 +351,12 @@ static int find_next_iomem_res(struct re end = res->end; BUG_ON(start >= end); - read_lock(&resource_lock); - - if (first_level_children_only) { - p = iomem_resource.child; + if (first_level_children_only) sibling_only = true; - } else - p = &iomem_resource; - while ((p = next_resource(p, sibling_only))) { + read_lock(&resource_lock); + + for (p = iomem_resource.child; p; p = next_resource(p, sibling_only)) { if (p->flags != res->flags) continue; if (name && strcmp(p->name, name)) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch resource-fix-the-case-of-null-pointer-access.patch kexec-create-a-new-config-option-config_kexec_file-for-new-syscall.patch kexec-remove-config_kexec-dependency-on-crypto.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html