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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-09-30 14:32:32 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-09-30 14:32:32 -0700
commit522d6d38f83a3809d26db7e24fafc56404693606 (patch)
tree7f08a58f5562b915c5e81e13347fa664c894898e /kernel
parentdf532d54d024f69446a13c31898cad6ac6b775ca (diff)
parent314a8ad0f18ac37887896b288939acd8cb17e208 (diff)
downloadlinux-522d6d38f83a3809d26db7e24fafc56404693606.tar.bz2
Merge branch 'akpm' (fixes from Andrew Morton)
Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton. * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (22 commits) pidns: fix free_pid() to handle the first fork failure ipc,msg: prevent race with rmid in msgsnd,msgrcv ipc/sem.c: update sem_otime for all operations mm/hwpoison: fix the lack of one reference count against poisoned page mm/hwpoison: fix false report on 2nd attempt at page recovery mm/hwpoison: fix test for a transparent huge page mm/hwpoison: fix traversal of hugetlbfs pages to avoid printk flood block: change config option name for cmdline partition parsing mm/mlock.c: prevent walking off the end of a pagetable in no-pmd configuration mm: avoid reinserting isolated balloon pages into LRU lists arch/parisc/mm/fault.c: fix uninitialized variable usage include/asm-generic/vtime.h: avoid zero-length file nilfs2: fix issue with race condition of competition between segments for dirty blocks Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: replace kernelcore with Movable mm/bounce.c: fix a regression where MS_SNAP_STABLE (stable pages snapshotting) was ignored kernel/kmod.c: check for NULL in call_usermodehelper_exec() ipc/sem.c: synchronize the proc interface ipc/sem.c: optimize sem_lock() ipc/sem.c: fix race in sem_lock() mm/compaction.c: periodically schedule when freeing pages ...
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kmod.c4
-rw-r--r--kernel/pid.c5
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index fb326365b694..b086006c59e7 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -571,6 +571,10 @@ int call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subprocess_info *sub_info, int wait)
DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(done);
int retval = 0;
+ if (!sub_info->path) {
+ call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(sub_info);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
helper_lock();
if (!khelper_wq || usermodehelper_disabled) {
retval = -EBUSY;
diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index ebe5e80b10f8..9b9a26698144 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -273,6 +273,11 @@ void free_pid(struct pid *pid)
*/
wake_up_process(ns->child_reaper);
break;
+ case PIDNS_HASH_ADDING:
+ /* Handle a fork failure of the first process */
+ WARN_ON(ns->child_reaper);
+ ns->nr_hashed = 0;
+ /* fall through */
case 0:
schedule_work(&ns->proc_work);
break;