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Commit ae002786 authored by Hiroshi Shimamoto's avatar Hiroshi Shimamoto Committed by Ingo Molnar
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latencytop: fix kernel panic while reading latency proc file



Reading /proc/<pid>/latency or /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/latency could cause
NULL pointer dereference.

In lstats_open(), get_proc_task() can return NULL, in which case the kernel
will oops at lstats_show_proc() because m->private is NULL.

When get_proc_task() returns NULL, the kernel should return -ENOENT.

This can be reproduced by the following script.
while :
do
        date
        bash -c 'ls > ls.$$' &
        pid=$!
        cat /proc/$pid/latency &
        cat /proc/$pid/latency &
        cat /proc/$pid/latency &
        cat /proc/$pid/latency
done

Signed-off-by: default avatarHiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 2d07b255
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