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 <davidlohr.bu...@hp.com>
---
ipc/shm.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ipc/shm.c b/ipc/shm.c
index 59f2194..c7ee2f6 100644
--- a/ipc/shm.c
+++ b/ipc/shm.c
@@ -1288,8 +1288,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(shmdt, char __user *, shmaddr)
#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;
}
--
1.7.11.7
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