Commit a8f531eb authored Sep 11, 2013 by Libin Committed by Linus Torvalds Sep 11, 2013

mm/huge_memory.c: fix potential NULL pointer dereference



In collapse_huge_page() there is a race window between releasing the
mmap_sem read lock and taking the mmap_sem write lock, so find_vma() may
return NULL.  So check the return value to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

collapse_huge_page
	khugepaged_alloc_page
		up_read(&mm->mmap_sem)
	down_write(&mm->mmap_sem)
	vma = find_vma(mm, address)

Signed-off-by: Libin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.0+
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent e2d0bd2b

mm/huge_memory.c

+2 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -2296,6 +2296,8 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
		goto out;

		vma = find_vma(mm, address);
		if (!vma)
		goto out;
		hstart = (vma->vm_start + ~HPAGE_PMD_MASK) & HPAGE_PMD_MASK;
		hend = vma->vm_end & HPAGE_PMD_MASK;
		if (address < hstart \|\| address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE > hend)

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