Thread (19 messages) 19 messages, 5 authors, 2016-12-22

Re: [PATCH v3 7/9] mm/page_owner: avoid null pointer dereference

From: Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-17 13:32:32
Also in: lkml

On 06/17/2016 09:57 AM, js1304@gmail.com wrote:
From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>

We have dereferenced page_ext before checking it. Lets check it first
and then used it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465249059-7883-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <redacted>
Hmm, this is already in mmotm as 
http://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-page_owner-use-stackdepot-to-store-stacktrace-fix.patch

But imho it's fixing a problem not related to your patch, but something that the 
commit f86e4271978b missed. So it should separately go to 4.7 ASAP.

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <redacted>
Fixes: f86e4271978b ("mm: check the return value of lookup_page_ext for all call 
sites")

quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 mm/page_owner.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_owner.c b/mm/page_owner.c
index dc92241..ec6dc18 100644
--- a/mm/page_owner.c
+++ b/mm/page_owner.c
@@ -295,13 +295,15 @@ void __dump_page_owner(struct page *page)
 		.skip = 0
 	};
 	depot_stack_handle_t handle;
-	gfp_t gfp_mask = page_ext->gfp_mask;
-	int mt = gfpflags_to_migratetype(gfp_mask);
+	gfp_t gfp_mask;
+	int mt;

 	if (unlikely(!page_ext)) {
 		pr_alert("There is not page extension available.\n");
 		return;
 	}
+	gfp_mask = page_ext->gfp_mask;
+	mt = gfpflags_to_migratetype(gfp_mask);

 	if (!test_bit(PAGE_EXT_OWNER, &page_ext->flags)) {
 		pr_alert("page_owner info is not active (free page?)\n");
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