Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753867Ab3JUIvp (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Oct 2013 04:51:45 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:39560 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753706Ab3JUIvi (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Oct 2013 04:51:38 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Michal Hocko" , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , "Wanpeng Li" , "Libin" , "Linus Torvalds" Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:46:28 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.2 065/149] mm/huge_memory.c: fix potential NULL pointer dereference In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 212.20.242.100 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1562 Lines: 46 3.2.52-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Libin commit a8f531ebc33052642b4bd7b812eedf397108ce64 upstream. 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 Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- mm/huge_memory.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -1882,6 +1882,8 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(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) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/