lib/radix-tree.c: fix overflow in radix_tree_range_tag_if_tagged()
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:13:33 +0000 (14:13 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:34:55 +0000 (09:34 -0700)
When radix_tree_maxindex() is ~0UL, it can happen that scanning overflows
index and tree traversal code goes astray reading memory until it hits
unreadable memory.  Check for overflow and exit in that case.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
lib/radix-tree.c
mm/page-writeback.c

index e907858498a6a3184f57de0d60fe25098ec37006..5b7d4623f0b70aee189deda3bc8318a590476160 100644 (file)
@@ -625,6 +625,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(radix_tree_tag_get);
  *
  * The function returns number of leaves where the tag was set and sets
  * *first_indexp to the first unscanned index.
+ * WARNING! *first_indexp can wrap if last_index is ULONG_MAX. Caller must
+ * be prepared to handle that.
  */
 unsigned long radix_tree_range_tag_if_tagged(struct radix_tree_root *root,
                unsigned long *first_indexp, unsigned long last_index,
@@ -675,7 +677,8 @@ unsigned long radix_tree_range_tag_if_tagged(struct radix_tree_root *root,
 next:
                /* Go to next item at level determined by 'shift' */
                index = ((index >> shift) + 1) << shift;
-               if (index > last_index)
+               /* Overflow can happen when last_index is ~0UL... */
+               if (index > last_index || !index)
                        break;
                if (tagged >= nr_to_tag)
                        break;
index 7262aacea8a201c073bd7ee5522f2e4b59fec937..c09ef5219cbe36f267a37f55d6fc670815082522 100644 (file)
@@ -836,7 +836,8 @@ void tag_pages_for_writeback(struct address_space *mapping,
                spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
                WARN_ON_ONCE(tagged > WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH);
                cond_resched();
-       } while (tagged >= WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH);
+               /* We check 'start' to handle wrapping when end == ~0UL */
+       } while (tagged >= WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH && start);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(tag_pages_for_writeback);