6.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 82f0b6f041fad768c28b4ad05a683065412c226e ] Commit 5ec8e8ea8b77 ("mm/sparsemem: fix race in accessing memory_section->usage") changed pfn_section_valid() to add a READ_ONCE() call around "ms->usage" to fix a race with section_deactivate() where ms->usage can be cleared. The READ_ONCE() call, by itself, is not enough to prevent NULL pointer dereference. We need to check its value before dereferencing it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240626001639.1350646-1-longman@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 5ec8e8ea8b77 ("mm/sparsemem: fix race in accessing memory_section->usage") Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/mmzone.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index 93d2003091222..61906244c14d6 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -1814,8 +1814,9 @@ static inline int subsection_map_index(unsigned long pfn) static inline int pfn_section_valid(struct mem_section *ms, unsigned long pfn) { int idx = subsection_map_index(pfn); + struct mem_section_usage *usage = READ_ONCE(ms->usage); - return test_bit(idx, READ_ONCE(ms->usage)->subsection_map); + return usage ? test_bit(idx, usage->subsection_map) : 0; } #else static inline int pfn_section_valid(struct mem_section *ms, unsigned long pfn) -- 2.43.0