From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx102.postini.com [74.125.245.102]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 91B066B0033 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2013 22:26:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <521424FA.5000203@asianux.com> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:24:58 +0800 From: Chen Gang MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] mm/shmem.c: check the return value of mpol_to_str() References: <5212E8DF.5020209@asianux.com> <20130820053036.GB18673@moon> <52130194.4030903@asianux.com> <20130820064730.GD18673@moon> <52131F48.1030002@asianux.com> <52132011.60501@asianux.com> <52132432.3050308@asianux.com> <20130820082516.GE18673@moon> <52142422.9050209@asianux.com> <52142464.8060903@asianux.com> <521424BE.8020309@asianux.com> In-Reply-To: <521424BE.8020309@asianux.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Mel Gorman , kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, riel@redhat.com, hughd@google.com, xemul@parallels.com, rientjes@google.com, Wanpeng Li Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov , Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" mpol_to_str() may fail, and not fill the buffer (e.g. -EINVAL), so need check about it, or buffer may not be zero based, and next seq_printf() will cause issue. Signed-off-by: Chen Gang Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov --- mm/shmem.c | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index e59d332..ae5112f 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -886,11 +886,14 @@ redirty: static int shmem_show_mpol(struct seq_file *seq, struct mempolicy *mpol) { char buffer[64]; + int ret; if (!mpol || mpol->mode == MPOL_DEFAULT) return 0; /* show nothing */ - mpol_to_str(buffer, sizeof(buffer), mpol); + ret = mpol_to_str(buffer, sizeof(buffer), mpol); + if (ret < 0) + return ret; seq_printf(seq, ",mpol=%s", buffer); return 0; -- 1.7.7.6 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org