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authorStanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>2013-04-01 11:40:51 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-04-02 10:09:01 -0700
commit2dc958fa2fe6987e7ab106bd97029a09a82fcd8d (patch)
treec260602e6d7233a0e05f252c0dfcb4dae587b9d2 /ipc
parent118c9a45fdacc6fe57910fa1d048e2d5bbc193f4 (diff)
ipc: set msg back to -EAGAIN if copy wasn't performed
Make sure that msg pointer is set back to error value in case of MSG_COPY flag is set and desired message to copy wasn't found. This garantees that msg is either a error pointer or a copy address. Otherwise the last message in queue will be freed without unlinking from the queue (which leads to memory corruption) and the dummy allocated copy won't be released. Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'ipc')
-rw-r--r--ipc/msg.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ipc/msg.c b/ipc/msg.c
index 31cd1bf6af2..fede1d06ef3 100644
--- a/ipc/msg.c
+++ b/ipc/msg.c
@@ -872,6 +872,7 @@ long do_msgrcv(int msqid, void __user *buf, size_t bufsz, long msgtyp,
goto out_unlock;
break;
}
+ msg = ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN);
} else
break;
msg_counter++;