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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-12-08 15:25:06 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-12-08 15:25:06 +0100
commitf0b9abfb044649bc452fb2fb975ff2fd599cc6a3 (patch)
tree7800081c5cb16a4dfee1e57a70f3be90f7b50d9a /kernel/pid_namespace.c
parentadc1ef1e37358d3c17d1a74a58b2e104fc0bda15 (diff)
parent1b3c393cd43f22ead8a6a2f839efc6df8ebd7465 (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core
Conflicts: tools/perf/Makefile tools/perf/builtin-test.c tools/perf/perf.h tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c tools/perf/util/evsel.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/pid_namespace.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/pid_namespace.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/pid_namespace.c b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
index eb00be20581..7b07cc0dfb7 100644
--- a/kernel/pid_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
@@ -71,12 +71,22 @@ err_alloc:
return NULL;
}
+/* MAX_PID_NS_LEVEL is needed for limiting size of 'struct pid' */
+#define MAX_PID_NS_LEVEL 32
+
static struct pid_namespace *create_pid_namespace(struct pid_namespace *parent_pid_ns)
{
struct pid_namespace *ns;
unsigned int level = parent_pid_ns->level + 1;
- int i, err = -ENOMEM;
+ int i;
+ int err;
+
+ if (level > MAX_PID_NS_LEVEL) {
+ err = -EINVAL;
+ goto out;
+ }
+ err = -ENOMEM;
ns = kmem_cache_zalloc(pid_ns_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
if (ns == NULL)
goto out;