[PATCH] x86_64: access of some bad address x86_64 has a large sparse gate area between VSYSCALL_START and VSYSCALL_END, not all of it presently backed by pmds. Alexander Nyberg has found that in some circumstances gdb may try to ptrace here, and hit get_user_pages BUG_ON. It seems odd that gdb should be accessing here, but it certainly shouldn't crash in this way: relax BUG_ON to -EFAULT. Fixes kernel bugzilla #4801. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 4e1c673..2405289 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -910,9 +910,13 @@ pud = pud_offset(pgd, pg); BUG_ON(pud_none(*pud)); pmd = pmd_offset(pud, pg); - BUG_ON(pmd_none(*pmd)); + if (pmd_none(*pmd)) + return i ? : -EFAULT; pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, pg); - BUG_ON(pte_none(*pte)); + if (pte_none(*pte)) { + pte_unmap(pte); + return i ? : -EFAULT; + } if (pages) { pages[i] = pte_page(*pte); get_page(pages[i]);