linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/mempolicy: Avoid use uninitialized preferred

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Date:   Fri, 9 Mar 2018 11:49:43 +0100
From:   Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
To:     Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@...wei.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        "mhocko@...e.com" <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/mempolicy: Avoid use uninitialized preferred_node

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 6:21 AM, Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@...wei.com> wrote:
> Alexander reported an use of uninitialized memory in __mpol_equal(),
> which is caused by incorrect use of preferred_node.
>
> When mempolicy in mode MPOL_PREFERRED with flags MPOL_F_LOCAL, it use
> numa_node_id() instead of preferred_node, however, __mpol_equeue() use
> preferred_node without check whether it is MPOL_F_LOCAL or not.
>
> Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@...wei.com>
Tested-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>

I confirm that the patch fixes the problem. Thanks for the quick turnaround!
Any idea which commit had introduced the bug in the first place?
> ---
>  mm/mempolicy.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
> index d879f1d..641545e 100644
> --- a/mm/mempolicy.c
> +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
> @@ -2124,6 +2124,9 @@ bool __mpol_equal(struct mempolicy *a, struct mempolicy *b)
>         case MPOL_INTERLEAVE:
>                 return !!nodes_equal(a->v.nodes, b->v.nodes);
>         case MPOL_PREFERRED:
> +               /* a's flags is the same as b's */
> +               if (a->flags & MPOL_F_LOCAL)
> +                       return true;
>                 return a->v.preferred_node == b->v.preferred_node;
>         default:
>                 BUG();
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>



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