This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mm: don't dereference struct page fields of invalid pages to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mm-don-t-dereference-struct-page-fields-of-invalid-pages.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Wed Aug 9 11:19:16 PDT 2017 From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:58:00 -0800 Subject: mm: don't dereference struct page fields of invalid pages From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit f073bdc51771f5a5c7a8d1191bfc3ae371d44de7 ] The VM_BUG_ON() check in move_freepages() checks whether the node id of a page matches the node id of its zone. However, it does this before having checked whether the struct page pointer refers to a valid struct page to begin with. This is guaranteed in most cases, but may not be the case if CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE=y. So reorder the VM_BUG_ON() with the pfn_valid_within() check. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481706707-6211-2-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Cc: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Robert Richter <rrichter@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1527,14 +1527,14 @@ int move_freepages(struct zone *zone, #endif for (page = start_page; page <= end_page;) { - /* Make sure we are not inadvertently changing nodes */ - VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_to_nid(page) != zone_to_nid(zone), page); - if (!pfn_valid_within(page_to_pfn(page))) { page++; continue; } + /* Make sure we are not inadvertently changing nodes */ + VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_to_nid(page) != zone_to_nid(zone), page); + if (!PageBuddy(page)) { page++; continue; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/mm-don-t-dereference-struct-page-fields-of-invalid-pages.patch