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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-25 16:05:57 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-25 16:05:57 -0700
commit2ab3f29dddfb444c9fcc0a2f3a56ed4bdba41969 (patch)
treeb1999129c781fbd524c921c4ebfde029a48cca17 /kernel
parentb1e4279e4ef5549bf6ebf8f6f17dd26f0af8e8a2 (diff)
parent12176503366885edd542389eed3aaf94be163fdb (diff)
downloadlinux-2ab3f29dddfb444c9fcc0a2f3a56ed4bdba41969.tar.gz
Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's fixes)
Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "18 total.  15 fixes and some updates to a device_cgroup patchset which
  bring it up to date with the version which I should have merged in the
  first place."

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (18 patches)
  fs/compat_ioctl.c: VIDEO_SET_SPU_PALETTE missing error check
  gen_init_cpio: avoid stack overflow when expanding
  drivers/rtc/rtc-imxdi.c: add missing spin lock initialization
  mm, numa: avoid setting zone_reclaim_mode unless a node is sufficiently distant
  pidns: limit the nesting depth of pid namespaces
  drivers/dma/dw_dmac: make driver's endianness configurable
  mm/mmu_notifier: allocate mmu_notifier in advance
  tools/testing/selftests/epoll/test_epoll.c: fix build
  UAPI: fix tools/vm/page-types.c
  mm/page_alloc.c:alloc_contig_range(): return early for err path
  rbtree: include linux/compiler.h for definition of __always_inline
  genalloc: stop crashing the system when destroying a pool
  backlight: ili9320: add missing SPI dependency
  device_cgroup: add proper checking when changing default behavior
  device_cgroup: stop using simple_strtoul()
  device_cgroup: rename deny_all to behavior
  cgroup: fix invalid rcu dereference
  mm: fix XFS oops due to dirty pages without buffers on s390
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/pid_namespace.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/pid_namespace.c b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
index eb00be205811..7b07cc0dfb75 100644
--- a/kernel/pid_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
@@ -71,12 +71,22 @@ err_alloc:
 	return NULL;
 }
 
+/* MAX_PID_NS_LEVEL is needed for limiting size of 'struct pid' */
+#define MAX_PID_NS_LEVEL 32
+
 static struct pid_namespace *create_pid_namespace(struct pid_namespace *parent_pid_ns)
 {
 	struct pid_namespace *ns;
 	unsigned int level = parent_pid_ns->level + 1;
-	int i, err = -ENOMEM;
+	int i;
+	int err;
+
+	if (level > MAX_PID_NS_LEVEL) {
+		err = -EINVAL;
+		goto out;
+	}
 
+	err = -ENOMEM;
 	ns = kmem_cache_zalloc(pid_ns_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (ns == NULL)
 		goto out;