[patch 23/62] proc: fix /proc/*/pagemap

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Jul 30 2008 - 20:14:10 EST


2.6.26 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let
us know.

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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>

commit ee1e6ab6056a8b9c19377257002da98b83819531 upstream

struct pagemap_walk was placed on stack, some hooks are initialized, the
rest (->pgd_entry, ->pud_entry, ->pte_entry) are valid but junk.

Reported-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -636,7 +636,7 @@ static ssize_t pagemap_read(struct file
struct pagemapread pm;
int pagecount;
int ret = -ESRCH;
- struct mm_walk pagemap_walk;
+ struct mm_walk pagemap_walk = {};
unsigned long src;
unsigned long svpfn;
unsigned long start_vaddr;

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