From 04ec93fe9bc98e3bd8560f79f56fed66dfae40d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Li Zefan Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 08:17:19 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] fork.c: fix NULL pointer dereference when nr_threads == threads-max I happened to forked lots of processes, and hit NULL pointer dereference. It is because in copy_process() after checking max_threads, 0 is returned but not -EAGAIN. The bug is introduced by "CRED: Detach the credentials from task_struct" (commit f1752eec6145c97163dbce62d17cf5d928e28a27). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: James Morris Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/fork.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 242a706e7721..6d5dbb7a13e2 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -1005,6 +1005,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags, * triggers too late. This doesn't hurt, the check is only there * to stop root fork bombs. */ + retval = -EAGAIN; if (nr_threads >= max_threads) goto bad_fork_cleanup_count; -- 2.30.2