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Date:   Thu, 19 Jul 2018 22:10:21 -0700
From:   tip-bot for Jiang Biao <tipbot@...or.com>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     mingo@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jiang.biao2@....com.cn
Subject: [tip:x86/pti] x86/pti: Check the return value of
 pti_user_pagetable_walk_pmd()

Commit-ID:  8c934e01a7ce685d98e970880f5941d79272c654
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/8c934e01a7ce685d98e970880f5941d79272c654
Author:     Jiang Biao <jiang.biao2@....com.cn>
AuthorDate: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 08:06:32 +0800
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CommitDate: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 07:07:39 +0200

x86/pti: Check the return value of pti_user_pagetable_walk_pmd()

pti_user_pagetable_walk_pmd() can return NULL, so the return value should
be checked to prevent a NULL pointer dereference.

Add the check and a warning when the PMD allocation fails.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Biao <jiang.biao2@....com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com
Cc: luto@...nel.org
Cc: hpa@...or.com
Cc: albcamus@...il.com
Cc: zhong.weidong@....com.cn
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1532045192-49622-2-git-send-email-jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn

---
 arch/x86/mm/pti.c | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
index 001ee6b0619e..bcf35dac1920 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ static pmd_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_pmd(unsigned long address)
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(p4d_large(*p4d) != 0);
 	if (p4d_none(*p4d)) {
 		unsigned long new_pud_page = __get_free_page(gfp);
-		if (!new_pud_page)
+		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!new_pud_page))
 			return NULL;
 
 		set_p4d(p4d, __p4d(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(new_pud_page)));
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static pmd_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_pmd(unsigned long address)
 	}
 	if (pud_none(*pud)) {
 		unsigned long new_pmd_page = __get_free_page(gfp);
-		if (!new_pmd_page)
+		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!new_pmd_page))
 			return NULL;
 
 		set_pud(pud, __pud(_KERNPG_TABLE | __pa(new_pmd_page)));
@@ -241,9 +241,13 @@ static pmd_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_pmd(unsigned long address)
 static __init pte_t *pti_user_pagetable_walk_pte(unsigned long address)
 {
 	gfp_t gfp = (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO);
-	pmd_t *pmd = pti_user_pagetable_walk_pmd(address);
+	pmd_t *pmd;
 	pte_t *pte;
 
+	pmd = pti_user_pagetable_walk_pmd(address);
+	if (!pmd)
+		return NULL;
+
 	/* We can't do anything sensible if we hit a large mapping. */
 	if (pmd_large(*pmd)) {
 		WARN_ON(1);