On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:03:23PM -0500, Dave Boutcher wrote:
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> 
> /proc/pid/pagemap has a header (usually 8 bytes) the length
> of which needs to be compensated for when converting from
> proc file offset to page number.  The calculation of the
> starting page number (svpfn) compensates for this, but the
> calculation of the ending page number (evpfn) does not, resulting
> in reads returning 8 bytes more than were asked for and
> nastily overwriting userspace memory.

Does this mean you're running on a 64-bit arch? I'd already fixed this
locally, but it was off by 4 for me.

Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
 
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> Diffed against 2.6.23-rc1-mm2
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Boutcher <boutcher@cs.umn.edu>
> ---
>  fs/proc/task_mmu.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> index 4594f15..b2baeab 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> @@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ static ssize_t pagemap_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
>  	addr = PAGE_SIZE * svpfn;
>  	if ((svpfn + 1) * sizeof(unsigned long) != src)
>  		goto out;
> -	evpfn = min((src + count) / sizeof(unsigned long),
> +	evpfn = min((src + count) / sizeof(unsigned long) - 1,
>  		    ((~0UL) >> PAGE_SHIFT) + 1);
>  	count = (evpfn - svpfn) * sizeof(unsigned long);
>  	end = PAGE_SIZE * evpfn;
> -- 
> 1.4.4.2

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