linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.18 098/185] mm/mempolicy.c: avoid use uninitialized preferred

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Message-Id: <20180528100059.357697262@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 28 May 2018 12:02:19 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@...wei.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.18 098/185] mm/mempolicy.c: avoid use uninitialized preferred_node

3.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@...wei.com>

[ Upstream commit 8970a63e965b43288c4f5f40efbc2bbf80de7f16 ]

Alexander reported a 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 uses
numa_node_id() instead of preferred_node, however, __mpol_equal() uses
preferred_node without checking whether it is MPOL_F_LOCAL or not.

[akpm@...ux-foundation.org: slight comment tweak]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4ebee1c2-57f6-bcb8-0e2d-1833d1ee0bb7@huawei.com
Fixes: fc36b8d3d819 ("mempolicy: use MPOL_F_LOCAL to Indicate Preferred Local Policy")
Signed-off-by: Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@...wei.com>
Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Tested-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 mm/mempolicy.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2169,6 +2169,9 @@ bool __mpol_equal(struct mempolicy *a, s
 	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();