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[2/9] mm/z3fold: fix possible null pointer dereferencing

Message ID 20220429064051.61552-3-linmiaohe@huawei.com (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series A few fixup patches for z3fold | expand

Commit Message

Miaohe Lin April 29, 2022, 6:40 a.m. UTC
alloc_slots could fail to allocate memory under heavy memory pressure. So
we should check zhdr->slots against NULL to avoid future null pointer
dereferencing.

Fixes: fc5488651c7d ("z3fold: simplify freeing slots")
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
---
 mm/z3fold.c | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Vitaly Wool May 19, 2022, 7:04 a.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 8:40 AM Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> wrote:
>
> alloc_slots could fail to allocate memory under heavy memory pressure. So
> we should check zhdr->slots against NULL to avoid future null pointer
> dereferencing.
>
> Fixes: fc5488651c7d ("z3fold: simplify freeing slots")
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
> ---
>  mm/z3fold.c | 12 +++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/z3fold.c b/mm/z3fold.c
> index c2260f5a5885..5d8c21f2bc59 100644
> --- a/mm/z3fold.c
> +++ b/mm/z3fold.c
> @@ -940,9 +940,19 @@ static inline struct z3fold_header *__z3fold_alloc(struct z3fold_pool *pool,
>                 }
>         }
>
> -       if (zhdr && !zhdr->slots)
> +       if (zhdr && !zhdr->slots) {
>                 zhdr->slots = alloc_slots(pool, GFP_ATOMIC);
> +               if (!zhdr->slots)
> +                       goto out_fail;
> +       }
>         return zhdr;
> +
> +out_fail:
> +       if (!kref_put(&zhdr->refcount, release_z3fold_page_locked)) {
> +               add_to_unbuddied(pool, zhdr);
> +               z3fold_page_unlock(zhdr);
> +       }
> +       return NULL;
>  }

Reviewed-by: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com>
>  /*
> --
> 2.23.0
>
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Patch

diff --git a/mm/z3fold.c b/mm/z3fold.c
index c2260f5a5885..5d8c21f2bc59 100644
--- a/mm/z3fold.c
+++ b/mm/z3fold.c
@@ -940,9 +940,19 @@  static inline struct z3fold_header *__z3fold_alloc(struct z3fold_pool *pool,
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (zhdr && !zhdr->slots)
+	if (zhdr && !zhdr->slots) {
 		zhdr->slots = alloc_slots(pool, GFP_ATOMIC);
+		if (!zhdr->slots)
+			goto out_fail;
+	}
 	return zhdr;
+
+out_fail:
+	if (!kref_put(&zhdr->refcount, release_z3fold_page_locked)) {
+		add_to_unbuddied(pool, zhdr);
+		z3fold_page_unlock(zhdr);
+	}
+	return NULL;
 }
 
 /*