The patch titled
Subject: mm/mempolicy.c: do not put mempolicy before using its nodemask
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-mempolicyc-do-not-put-mempolicy-before-using-its-nodemask.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-mempolicyc-do-not-put-mempolicy-before-using-its-nodemask.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-mempolicyc-do-not-put-mempolicy-before-using-its-nodemask.patch
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From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/mempolicy.c: do not put mempolicy before using its nodemask
Since commit be97a41b291e ("mm/mempolicy.c: merge alloc_hugepage_vma to
alloc_pages_vma") alloc_pages_vma() can potentially free a mempolicy by
mpol_cond_put() before accessing the embedded nodemask by
__alloc_pages_nodemask(). The commit log says it's so "we can use a
single exit path within the function" but that's clearly wrong. We can
still do that when doing mpol_cond_put() after the allocation attempt.
Make sure the mempolicy is not freed prematurely, otherwise
__alloc_pages_nodemask() can end up using a bogus nodemask, which could
lead e.g. to premature OOM.
Fixes: be97a41b291e ("mm/mempolicy.c: merge alloc_hugepage_vma to alloc_pages_vma")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118141124.8345-1-vbabka@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [4.0+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mempolicy.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN mm/mempolicy.c~mm-mempolicyc-do-not-put-mempolicy-before-using-its-nodemask mm/mempolicy.c
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c~mm-mempolicyc-do-not-put-mempolicy-before-using-its-nodemask
+++ a/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2017,8 +2017,8 @@ retry_cpuset:
nmask = policy_nodemask(gfp, pol);
zl = policy_zonelist(gfp, pol, node);
- mpol_cond_put(pol);
page = __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp, order, zl, nmask);
+ mpol_cond_put(pol);
out:
if (unlikely(!page && read_mems_allowed_retry(cpuset_mems_cookie)))
goto retry_cpuset;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from vbabka@xxxxxxx are
mm-mempolicyc-do-not-put-mempolicy-before-using-its-nodemask.patch
mm-page_alloc-dont-convert-pfn-to-idx-when-merging.patch
mm-page_alloc-avoid-page_to_pfn-when-merging-buddies.patch
mm-page_alloc-convert-page_group_by_mobility_disable-to-static-key.patch
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