This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ipc, shm: guard against non-existant vma in shmdt(2)

to the 3.11-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ipc-shm-guard-against-non-existant-vma-in-shmdt-2.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.11 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 530fcd16d87cd2417c472a581ba5a1e501556c86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:26:28 -0700
Subject: ipc, shm: guard against non-existant vma in shmdt(2)

From: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>

commit 530fcd16d87cd2417c472a581ba5a1e501556c86 upstream.

When !CONFIG_MMU there's a chance we can derefence a NULL pointer when the
VM area isn't found - check the return value of find_vma().

Also, remove the redundant -EINVAL return: retval is set to the proper
return code and *only* changed to 0, when we actually unmap the segments.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Cc: Sedat Dilek <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 ipc/shm.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/ipc/shm.c
+++ b/ipc/shm.c
@@ -1295,8 +1295,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(shmdt, char __user *, sh
 #else /* CONFIG_MMU */
        /* under NOMMU conditions, the exact address to be destroyed must be
         * given */
-       retval = -EINVAL;
-       if (vma->vm_start == addr && vma->vm_ops == &shm_vm_ops) {
+       if (vma && vma->vm_start == addr && vma->vm_ops == &shm_vm_ops) {
                do_munmap(mm, vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start);
                retval = 0;
        }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.11/ipc-drop-ipc_lock_by_ptr.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-msg-drop-msg_unlock.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-shorten-critical-region-in-shmctl_down.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-rename-ids-rw_mutex.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-introduce-lockless-functions-to-obtain-the-ipc-object.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-shorten-critical-region-for-shmat.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-shorten-critical-region-for-shmctl.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-introduce-shmctl_nolock.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-drop-ipcctl_pre_down.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-document-general-ipc-locking-scheme.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-drop-shm_lock_check.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-guard-against-non-existant-vma-in-shmdt-2.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-cleanup-do_shmat-pasta.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-drop-ipc_lock_check.patch
queue-3.11/ipc-shm-make-shmctl_nolock-lockless.patch
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