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Message-ID: <20090105100120.GB7645@localhost>
Date:	Mon, 5 Jan 2009 13:01:20 +0300
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: __nr_to_section - make it safe against overflow

[Cyrill Gorcunov - Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 12:40:34PM +0300]
| __nr_to_section should check for array bound overflow.
| We should better get NULL dereference then silently
| pass some memory snippet out of bounds to a caller.
| 
| Also add a comment about mem_section structure.
| 
| Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
| ---
| 
| Please review. Some __nr_to_section callers don't check
| for NULL returned so this patch could be a bit dangerous
| but should reveal the problems eventually.
|
...

Populating WARN_ON_ONCE by inline is not good. Fixed.

		- Cyrill -
---

[PATCH] mm: __nr_to_section - make it safe against overflow

__nr_to_section should check for array bound overflow.
We should better get NULL dereference then silently
pass some memory snippet out of bounds to a caller.

Also add a comment about mem_section structure.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
---
 include/linux/mmzone.h |   14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.git/include/linux/mmzone.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ linux-2.6.git/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -935,6 +935,12 @@ static inline unsigned long early_pfn_to
 
 struct page;
 struct page_cgroup;
+
+/*
+ * NOTE: sizeof(struct mem_section) _must_ be power of 2
+ * otherwise SECTION_ROOT_MASK will be broken so be
+ * really cautious while modifying this structure
+ */
 struct mem_section {
 	/*
 	 * This is, logically, a pointer to an array of struct
@@ -980,9 +986,13 @@ extern struct mem_section mem_section[NR
 
 static inline struct mem_section *__nr_to_section(unsigned long nr)
 {
-	if (!mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)])
+	unsigned long idx = SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr);
+
+	WARN_ON(idx >= NR_SECTION_ROOTS);
+	if (idx >= NR_SECTION_ROOTS || !mem_section[idx])
 		return NULL;
-	return &mem_section[SECTION_NR_TO_ROOT(nr)][nr & SECTION_ROOT_MASK];
+
+	return &mem_section[idx][nr & SECTION_ROOT_MASK];
 }
 extern int __section_nr(struct mem_section* ms);
 extern unsigned long usemap_size(void);
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