linux-kernel - [08/98] memcg: fix prepare migration

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Message-Id: <20100510223535.154408220@kvm.kroah.org>
Date:	Mon, 10 May 2010 15:34:20 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ibm.com>,
	Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>
Subject: [08/98] memcg: fix prepare migration

2.6.32-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>

commit 93d5c9be1ddd57d4063ce463c9ac2be1e5ee14f1 upstream.

If a signal is pending (task being killed by sigkill)
__mem_cgroup_try_charge will write NULL into &mem, and css_put will oops
on null pointer dereference.

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010
  IP: [<ffffffff810fc6cc>] mem_cgroup_prepare_migration+0x7c/0xc0
  PGD a5d89067 PUD a5d8a067 PMD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  last sysfs file: /sys/devices/platform/microcode/firmware/microcode/loading
  CPU 0
  Modules linked in: nfs lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss sunrpc acpi_cpufreq pcspkr sg [last unloaded: microcode]

  Pid: 5299, comm: largepages Tainted: G        W  2.6.34-rc3 #3 Penryn1600SLI-110dB/To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810fc6cc>]  [<ffffffff810fc6cc>] mem_cgroup_prepare_migration+0x7c/0xc0

[nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp: fix merge issues]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@...ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 mm/memcontrol.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2008,12 +2008,12 @@ int mem_cgroup_prepare_migration(struct
 	}
 	unlock_page_cgroup(pc);
 
+	*ptr = mem;
 	if (mem) {
-		ret = __mem_cgroup_try_charge(NULL, GFP_KERNEL, &mem, false,
+		ret = __mem_cgroup_try_charge(NULL, GFP_KERNEL, ptr, false,
 						page);
 		css_put(&mem->css);
 	}
-	*ptr = mem;
 	return ret;
 }
 


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