[PATCH 1/2] mm: don't dereference struct page fields of invalid pages
From: Will Deacon <hidden>
Date: 2017-01-04 12:17:41
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On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 09:11:46AM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
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The VM_BUG_ON() check in move_freepages() checks whether the node id of a page matches the node id of its zone. However, it does this before having checked whether the struct page pointer refers to a valid struct page to begin with. This is guaranteed in most cases, but may not be the case if CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE=y. So reorder the VM_BUG_ON() with the pfn_valid_within() check. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <redacted> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index f64e7bcb43b7..4e298e31fa86 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c@@ -1864,14 +1864,14 @@ int move_freepages(struct zone *zone, #endif for (page = start_page; page <= end_page;) { - /* Make sure we are not inadvertently changing nodes */ - VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_to_nid(page) != zone_to_nid(zone), page); - if (!pfn_valid_within(page_to_pfn(page))) { page++; continue; } + /* Make sure we are not inadvertently changing nodes */ + VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_to_nid(page) != zone_to_nid(zone), page); + if (!PageBuddy(page)) { page++; continue;
Acked-by: Will Deacon <redacted> I'm guessing akpm can pick this up as a non-urgent fix. Will