The patch titled
containersv10-add-tasks-file-interface-fix 2
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
containersv10-add-tasks-file-interface-fix-2.patch
This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged
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Subject: containersv10-add-tasks-file-interface-fix 2
From: Cedric Le Goater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
when there's no tasks in a container, opening
<containerfs>/<container>/tasks
spits the following warning because we are trying to
kmalloc(0).
WARNING: at mm/slab.c:777 __find_general_cachep()
[<c0102b01>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f
[<c0103627>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
[<c010363e>] dump_stack+0x15/0x17
[<c0148040>] __kmalloc+0x56/0xf3
[<c012d030>] container_tasks_open+0x56/0x131
[<c012cdf8>] container_file_open+0x32/0x3a
[<c014964d>] __dentry_open+0x99/0x13c
[<c0149771>] nameidata_to_filp+0x27/0x37
[<c01497b4>] do_filp_open+0x33/0x3b
[<c0149801>] do_sys_open+0x45/0xc9
[<c01498bd>] sys_open+0x1c/0x1e
[<c0102540>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
kernel/container.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff -puN kernel/container.c~containersv10-add-tasks-file-interface-fix-2
kernel/container.c
--- a/kernel/container.c~containersv10-add-tasks-file-interface-fix-2
+++ a/kernel/container.c
@@ -1141,21 +1141,26 @@ static int container_tasks_open(struct i
* show up until sometime later on.
*/
npids = container_task_count(cont);
- pidarray = kmalloc(npids * sizeof(pid_t), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!pidarray)
- goto err1;
-
- npids = pid_array_load(pidarray, npids, cont);
- sort(pidarray, npids, sizeof(pid_t), cmppid, NULL);
-
- /* Call pid_array_to_buf() twice, first just to get bufsz */
- ctr->bufsz = pid_array_to_buf(&c, sizeof(c), pidarray, npids) + 1;
- ctr->buf = kmalloc(ctr->bufsz, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!ctr->buf)
- goto err2;
- ctr->bufsz = pid_array_to_buf(ctr->buf, ctr->bufsz, pidarray, npids);
-
- kfree(pidarray);
+ if (npids) {
+ pidarray = kmalloc(npids * sizeof(pid_t), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!pidarray)
+ goto err1;
+
+ npids = pid_array_load(pidarray, npids, cont);
+ sort(pidarray, npids, sizeof(pid_t), cmppid, NULL);
+
+ /* Call pid_array_to_buf() twice, first just to get bufsz */
+ ctr->bufsz = pid_array_to_buf(&c, sizeof(c), pidarray, npids) +
1;
+ ctr->buf = kmalloc(ctr->bufsz, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!ctr->buf)
+ goto err2;
+ ctr->bufsz = pid_array_to_buf(ctr->buf, ctr->bufsz, pidarray,
npids);
+
+ kfree(pidarray);
+ } else {
+ ctr->buf = 0;
+ ctr->bufsz = 0;
+ }
file->private_data = ctr;
return 0;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are
origin.patch
containersv10-add-tasks-file-interface-fix-2.patch
pid-namespaces-round-up-the-api.patch
pid-namespaces-make-get_pid_ns-return-the-namespace-itself.patch
pid-namespaces-dynamic-kmem-cache-allocator-for-pid-namespaces.patch
pid-namespaces-dynamic-kmem-cache-allocator-for-pid-namespaces-fix.patch
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