linux-kernel - Re: [REGRESSION] mm: filemap_map

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Date:	Sun, 7 Feb 2016 07:50:24 -0800
From:	Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@...el.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] mm: filemap_map_pages NULL pointer dereference

Konstantin, Andrew,

On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 02:19:40PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 10:05:02 -0800 Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@...il.com> wrote:
> 
[...]
> 
> This should fix it up.
> 
> From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@...il.com>
> Subject: radix-tree: fix oops after radix_tree_iter_retry
> 
> Helper radix_tree_iter_retry() resets next_index to the current index.  In
> following radix_tree_next_slot current chunk size becomes zero.  This
> isn't checked and it tries to dereference null pointer in slot.
> 
> Tagged iterator is fine because retry happens only at slot 0 where tag
> bitmask in iter->tags is filled with single bit.
> 
> Fixes: 46437f9a554f ("radix-tree: fix race in gang lookup")
> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@...il.com>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
> Cc: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@...ery.com>
> Cc: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@...il.com>
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> ---
> 
>  include/linux/radix-tree.h |    6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff -puN include/linux/radix-tree.h~radix-tree-fix-oops-after-radix_tree_iter_retry include/linux/radix-tree.h
> --- a/include/linux/radix-tree.h~radix-tree-fix-oops-after-radix_tree_iter_retry
> +++ a/include/linux/radix-tree.h
> @@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ void **radix_tree_iter_retry(struct radi
>   * @iter:	pointer to radix tree iterator
>   * Returns:	current chunk size
>   */
> -static __always_inline unsigned
> +static __always_inline long
>  radix_tree_chunk_size(struct radix_tree_iter *iter)
>  {
>  	return iter->next_index - iter->index;
> @@ -434,9 +434,9 @@ radix_tree_next_slot(void **slot, struct
>  			return slot + offset + 1;
>  		}
>  	} else {
> -		unsigned size = radix_tree_chunk_size(iter) - 1;
> +		long size = radix_tree_chunk_size(iter);
>  
> -		while (size--) {
> +		while (--size > 0) {
>  			slot++;
>  			iter->index++;
>  			if (likely(*slot))
> _
> 

Fix is still working great after a couple days.

Tested-by: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@...il.com>

-- 
- Jeremiah Mahler