Re: [patch 2.4.28-rc1] Avoid oops in proc_delete_inode

From: Marc-Christian Petersen
Date: Thu Nov 04 2004 - 10:34:52 EST


On Thursday 04 November 2004 03:35, Keith Owens wrote:

Marcelo,

I just saw you applied this to bk. Cool, but please apply a right version ;)

> Under heavy load, vmstat, top and other programs that access /proc can
> oops. PROC_INODE_PROPER(inode) is sometimes false for pid entries
> (usually zombies), but inode->u.generic_ip is not NULL.
>
> Backport a fix by AL Viro from 2.5.7-pre2 to 2.4.28-rc1.
>
> Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxx>
>
> Index: 2.4.28-rc1/fs/proc/base.c
> ===================================================================
> --- 2.4.28-rc1.orig/fs/proc/base.c 2004-08-08 10:10:49.000000000 +1000
> +++ 2.4.28-rc1/fs/proc/base.c 2004-11-04 13:25:16.402602459 +1100
> @@ -780,6 +780,7 @@ out:
> return inode;
>
> out_unlock:
> + node->u.generic_ip = NULL;

has to be:

+ inode->u.generic_ip = NULL;

> iput(inode);
> return NULL;
> }

ciao, Marc
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