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| author | Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> | 2010-11-03 17:56:49 (GMT) |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-11-03 18:39:58 (GMT) |
| commit | ff8b16d7e15a8ba2a6086645614a483e048e3fbf (patch) | |
| tree | bba0a06fe931072b5794960e8dd928769ca58ce9 /drivers/hwmon | |
| parent | 81a6cff678ecee7cdc0658285d3150660c07cfce (diff) | |
| download | linux-ff8b16d7e15a8ba2a6086645614a483e048e3fbf.tar.xz | |
vmstat: fix offset calculation on void*
Fix regression introduced by commit 79da826aee6 ("writeback: report
dirty thresholds in /proc/vmstat").
The incorrect pointer arithmetic can result in problems like this:
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 07c06d16
IP: [<c050c336>] strnlen+0x6/0x20
Call Trace:
[<c050a249>] ? string+0x39/0xe0
[<c042be6b>] ? __wake_up_common+0x4b/0x80
[<c050afcc>] ? vsnprintf+0x1ec/0x380
[<c04b380e>] ? seq_printf+0x2e/0x60
[<c04829a6>] ? vmstat_show+0x26/0x30
[<c04b3bb6>] ? seq_read+0xa6/0x380
[<c04b3b10>] ? seq_read+0x0/0x380
[<c04d5d2f>] ? proc_reg_read+0x5f/0x90
[<c049c4a1>] ? vfs_read+0xa1/0x140
[<c04d5cd0>] ? proc_reg_read+0x0/0x90
[<c049c981>] ? sys_read+0x41/0x70
[<c0402bd0>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/hwmon')
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