-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

The return value of futex_find_get_task() needs to be -ESRCH in case
that the search fails. This was part of the original futex fixes and 
got accidentally dropped, when the futex-tidy-up patch was split out.

Results in a NULL pointer dereference in case the search fails.

Restore it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
 kernel/futex.c |   14 ++++++--------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.21.6.orig/kernel/futex.c
+++ linux-2.6.21.6/kernel/futex.c
@@ -390,14 +390,12 @@ static struct task_struct * futex_find_g
 
        rcu_read_lock();
        p = find_task_by_pid(pid);
-       if (!p)
-               goto out_unlock;
-       if ((current->euid != p->euid) && (current->euid != p->uid)) {
-               p = NULL;
-               goto out_unlock;
-       }
-       get_task_struct(p);
-out_unlock:
+
+       if (!p || ((current->euid != p->euid) && (current->euid != p->uid)))
+               p = ERR_PTR(-ESRCH);
+       else
+               get_task_struct(p);
+
        rcu_read_unlock();
 
        return p;

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