[PATCH] skip data conversion in compat_sys_mount when data_page is NULL
OpenVZ Linux kernel team has found a problem with mounting in compat mode.
Simple command "mount -t smbfs ..." on Fedora Core 5 distro in 32-bit mode
leads to oops:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 RIP: compat_sys_mount+0xd6/0x290
Process mount (pid: 14656, veid=300, threadinfo ffff810034d30000, task ffff810034c86bc0)
Call Trace: ia32_sysret+0x0/0xa
The problem is that data_page pointer can be NULL, so we should skip data
conversion in this case.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Mirkin <amirkin@openvz.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/fs/compat.c b/fs/compat.c
index 06dad66..7aef541 100644
--- a/fs/compat.c
+++ b/fs/compat.c
@@ -871,7 +871,7 @@
retval = -EINVAL;
- if (type_page) {
+ if (type_page && data_page) {
if (!strcmp((char *)type_page, SMBFS_NAME)) {
do_smb_super_data_conv((void *)data_page);
} else if (!strcmp((char *)type_page, NCPFS_NAME)) {