On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 02:17:58PM +0800, Liam Ni wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jun 2023 at 13:44, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 17 Jun 2023 14:40:36 +1000 Liam Ni <zhiguangni01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > __nr_to_section() may return a null pointer,
> > > before accessing the member variable section_mem_map,
> > > we should first determine whether it is a null pointer.
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > --- a/mm/sparse.c
> > > +++ b/mm/sparse.c
> > > @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ static void __init memory_present(int nid, unsigned long start, unsigned long en
> > > set_section_nid(section, nid);
> > >
> > > ms = __nr_to_section(section);
> > > - if (!ms->section_mem_map) {
> > > + if (ms && !ms->section_mem_map) {
> > > ms->section_mem_map = sparse_encode_early_nid(nid) |
> > > SECTION_IS_ONLINE;
> > > __section_mark_present(ms, section);
> >
> > I'm suspecting that if __nr_to_section() returns NULL here, we should
> > just panic. But a null-deref gives the same information, so why change
> > things?
>
> Do you mean if ms is a null pointer，ms->section_mem_map will cause
> system panic,so we needn't change?
Yes, if __nr_to_section ever returns NULL the system will crash anyway.
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Sincerely yours,
Mike.
