Remove user-triggerable BUG from mpol_to_str

commit 80de7c3138ee9fd86a98696fd2cf7ad89b995d0a upstream.

Trivially triggerable, found by trinity:

  kernel BUG at mm/mempolicy.c:2546!
  Process trinity-child2 (pid: 23988, threadinfo ffff88010197e000, task ffff88007821a670)
  Call Trace:
    show_numa_map+0xd5/0x450
    show_pid_numa_map+0x13/0x20
    traverse+0xf2/0x230
    seq_read+0x34b/0x3e0
    vfs_read+0xac/0x180
    sys_pread64+0xa2/0xc0
    system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f
  RIP: mpol_to_str+0x156/0x360

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index cff919fe7025c95b3ce312a97e4595cbb1fe7c50..3f3cc5622c015bff2c095e953eccfff23e0d5f5b 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2500,7 +2500,7 @@ int mpol_to_str(char *buffer, int maxlen, struct mempolicy *pol, int no_context)
                break;
 
        default:
-               BUG();
+               return -EINVAL;
        }
 
        l = strlen(policy_modes[mode]);