[PATCH] Fix crash when ptrace poking hugepage areas
authorDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Wed, 30 Nov 2005 03:34:32 +0000 (19:34 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Wed, 30 Nov 2005 03:47:03 +0000 (19:47 -0800)
commit5bd0190bf3d7e53043a048e809ffa29d41b9d6ac
treec6fba8d5a532ecfa53dc97a3841d13d972964854
parentdf69a60dc6afc2936d79054d30b481c1fd9720e5
[PATCH] Fix crash when ptrace poking hugepage areas

set_page_dirty() will not cope with being handed a page * which is part of
a compound page, but not the master page in that compound page.  This case
can occur via access_process_vm() if you attemp to write to another
process's hugepage memory area using ptrace() (causing an oops or hang).

This patch fixes the bug by only calling set_page_dirty() from
access_process_vm() if the page is not a compound page.  We already use a
similar fix in bio_set_pages_dirty() for the case of direct io to
hugepages.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
kernel/ptrace.c