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authorRobin Holt <holt@sgi.com>2009-12-15 16:47:57 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-16 07:20:14 -0800
commit15b87d67ff3dc042bee42f991858d6b121b3b3ca (patch)
tree48e72a7ce8b4113b3dfcdcd31ca9bdce38ee3cd9 /drivers/misc/sgi-xp
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x86: uv: xpc NULL deref when mesq becomes empty
Under heavy load conditions, our set of xpc messages may become exhausted. The code handles this correctly with the exception of the management code which hits a NULL pointer dereference. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/misc/sgi-xp')
-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_uv.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_uv.c b/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_uv.c
index bbf0e2e..19bd7b0 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_uv.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_uv.c
@@ -949,11 +949,13 @@ xpc_get_fifo_entry_uv(struct xpc_fifo_head_uv *head)
head->first = first->next;
if (head->first == NULL)
head->last = NULL;
+
+ head->n_entries--;
+ BUG_ON(head->n_entries < 0);
+
+ first->next = NULL;
}
- head->n_entries--;
- BUG_ON(head->n_entries < 0);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&head->lock, irq_flags);
- first->next = NULL;
return first;
}