From a2ef990ab5a6705a356d146dd773a3b359787497 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:17:08 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] proc: fix null pointer deref in proc_pid_permission()

get_proc_task() can fail to search the task and return NULL,
put_task_struct() will then bomb the kernel with following oops:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010
  IP: [<ffffffff81217d34>] proc_pid_permission+0x64/0xe0
  PGD 112075067 PUD 112814067 PMD 0
  Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP

This is a regression introduced by commit 0499680a ("procfs: add hidepid=
and gid= mount options").  The kernel should return -ESRCH if
get_proc_task() failed.

Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dannyfeng@tencent.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 fs/proc/base.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 8173dfd89cb2..5485a5388ecb 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -654,6 +654,8 @@ static int proc_pid_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
 	bool has_perms;
 
 	task = get_proc_task(inode);
+	if (!task)
+		return -ESRCH;
 	has_perms = has_pid_permissions(pid, task, 1);
 	put_task_struct(task);
 
-- 
2.34.1