linux-kernel - [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.0 95/99] mm/page_alloc.c: avoid potential NULL pointer dereference

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Date:   Tue,  7 May 2019 01:32:29 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.0 95/99] mm/page_alloc.c: avoid potential NULL pointer dereference

From: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>

[ Upstream commit 8139ad043d632c0e9e12d760068a7a8e91659aa1 ]

ac.preferred_zoneref->zone passed to alloc_flags_nofragment() can be NULL.
'zone' pointer unconditionally derefernced in alloc_flags_nofragment().
Bail out on NULL zone to avoid potential crash.  Currently we don't see
any crashes only because alloc_flags_nofragment() has another bug which
allows compiler to optimize away all accesses to 'zone'.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190423120806.3503-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Fixes: 6bb154504f8b ("mm, page_alloc: spread allocations across zones before introducing fragmentation")
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index eedb57f9b40b..d59be95ba45c 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3385,6 +3385,9 @@ alloc_flags_nofragment(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 		alloc_flags |= ALLOC_KSWAPD;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32
+	if (!zone)
+		return alloc_flags;
+
 	if (zone_idx(zone) != ZONE_NORMAL)
 		goto out;
 
-- 
2.20.1