The patch titled gru: check for valid vma has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is gru-check-for-valid-vma.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 *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: gru: check for valid vma From: Jack Steiner <steiner@xxxxxxx> Fix bug caused by failure to allocate a GRU gts structure. The old code failed to handle the case where the vma was invalid. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufault.c | 21 ++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufault.c~gru-check-for-valid-vma drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufault.c --- a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufault.c~gru-check-for-valid-vma +++ a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufault.c @@ -90,19 +90,22 @@ static struct gru_thread_state *gru_allo { struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm; struct vm_area_struct *vma; - struct gru_thread_state *gts = NULL; + struct gru_thread_state *gts = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); down_write(&mm->mmap_sem); vma = gru_find_vma(vaddr); - if (vma) - gts = gru_alloc_thread_state(vma, TSID(vaddr, vma)); - if (!IS_ERR(gts)) { - mutex_lock(>s->ts_ctxlock); - downgrade_write(&mm->mmap_sem); - } else { - up_write(&mm->mmap_sem); - } + if (!vma) + goto err; + gts = gru_alloc_thread_state(vma, TSID(vaddr, vma)); + if (IS_ERR(gts)) + goto err; + mutex_lock(>s->ts_ctxlock); + downgrade_write(&mm->mmap_sem); + return gts; + +err: + up_write(&mm->mmap_sem); return gts; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from steiner@xxxxxxx are linux-next.patch x86-uv-introduce-a-means-to-translate-from-gpa-socket_paddr.patch x86-uv-xpc-needs-to-provide-an-abstraction-for-uv_gpa.patch x86-uv-introduce-uv_gpa_is_mmr.patch x86-uv-implement-a-gru_read_gpa-kernel-function.patch x86-uv-update-xpc-to-handle-updated-bios-interface.patch x86-uv-xpc-null-deref-when-mesq-becomes-empty.patch x86-uv-xpc_make_first_contact-hang-due-to-not-accepting-active-state.patch x86-uv-xpc-receive-message-reuse-triggers-invalid-bug_on.patch gru-initial-gru-based-on-blade-topology.patch gru-add-comments-raised-in-previous-code-reviews.patch gru-fix-istatus-race-in-gru-tlb-dropin.patch gru-handle-blades-without-memory.patch gru-allow-users-to-specify-gru-chiplet-1.patch gru-allow-users-to-specify-gru-chiplet-2.patch gru-allow-users-to-specify-gru-chiplet-3.patch gru-fix-bug-in-module-unload.patch gru-improve-messages-for-malfunctioning-grus.patch gru-support-64-bit-gru-addresses.patch gru-handle-failures-to-mmu_notifier_register.patch gru-add-debug-option-for-cache-flushing.patch gru-add-test-for-gru_copy_gpa.patch gru-check-for-valid-vma.patch gru-fix-prefetch-and-speculation-bugs.patch gru-update-irq-infrastructure.patch gru-add-additional-gru-statistics.patch gru-expicitly-set-instruction-status-to-active.patch gru-preload-tlb-for-bcopy-instructions.patch gru-fix-bug-in-exception-handling.patch gru-add-symbolic-names-for-gru-error-code.patch gru-remove-stray-local_irq_enable.patch gru-check-for-correct-gru-chiplet-assignment.patch gru-update-gru-structures-to-match-latest-hardware-spec.patch gru-fix-bug-in-allocation-of-kernel-contexts.patch gru-add-hugepage-support.patch gru-fix-gru-interrupt-race-at-deallocate.patch gru-improve-gru-tlb-dropin-statistics.patch gru-update-driver-version-number.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