ipc/shm.c: check for overflows of shm_tot
authorManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Fri, 6 Jun 2014 21:37:40 +0000 (14:37 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 6 Jun 2014 23:08:14 +0000 (16:08 -0700)
commit09c6eb1f651dad601f02435bbd79734954960c42
tree8777788a3a4f7ebdc2805cd84d276584ecee3491
parent247a8ce8229b16d4ffa9f5125fb6583aa749679d
ipc/shm.c: check for overflows of shm_tot

shm_tot counts the total number of pages used by shm segments.

If SHMALL is ULONG_MAX (or nearly ULONG_MAX), then the number can
overflow.  Subsequent calls to shmctl(,SHM_INFO,) would return wrong
values for shm_tot.

The patch adds a detection for overflows.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ipc/shm.c