shm: fix shmctl(SHM_INFO) lockup with !CONFIG_SHMEM
shm_get_stat() assumes that the inode is a "struct shmem_inode_info", which is incorrect for !CONFIG_SHMEM (see fs/ramfs/inode.c: ramfs_get_inode() vs. mm/shmem.c: shmem_get_inode()). This bad assumption can cause shmctl(SHM_INFO) to lockup when shm_get_stat() tries to spin_lock(&info->lock). Users of !CONFIG_SHMEM may encounter this lockup simply by invoking the 'ipcs' command. Reported by Jiri Olsa back in February 2008: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/29/74Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.everything] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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