Its possible to crash __alloc_pages_nodemask by passing it bogus node ids. This is caused by NODE_DATA() returning null (hopefully) when the requested node is offline. We can harded against the basic case of a mostly valid node, that isn't online by checking for null and failing prepare_alloc_pages. But this then suggests we should also harden NODE_DATA() like this #define NODE_DATA(nid) ( (nid) < MAX_NUMNODES ? node_data[(nid)] : NULL) eventually this starts to add a bunch of generally uneeded checks in some code paths that are called quite frequently. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@xxxxxxx> --- include/linux/gfp.h | 2 ++ mm/page_alloc.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h index a6afcec53795..17d70271c42e 100644 --- a/include/linux/gfp.h +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h @@ -436,6 +436,8 @@ static inline int gfp_zonelist(gfp_t flags) */ static inline struct zonelist *node_zonelist(int nid, gfp_t flags) { + if (unlikely(!NODE_DATA(nid))) //VM_WARN_ON? + return NULL; return NODE_DATA(nid)->node_zonelists + gfp_zonelist(flags); } diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index a790ef4be74e..3a3d9ac2662a 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -4306,6 +4306,8 @@ static inline bool prepare_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, { ac->high_zoneidx = gfp_zone(gfp_mask); ac->zonelist = node_zonelist(preferred_nid, gfp_mask); + if (!ac->zonelist) + return false; ac->nodemask = nodemask; ac->migratetype = gfpflags_to_migratetype(gfp_mask); -- 2.14.3