linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.6 075/118] arm64: hugetlb: avoid potential NULL dereference

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Date:   Wed, 13 May 2020 11:44:54 +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, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Kyrill Tkachov <kyrylo.tkachov@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Subject: [PATCH 5.6 075/118] arm64: hugetlb: avoid potential NULL dereference

From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>

commit 027d0c7101f50cf03aeea9eebf484afd4920c8d3 upstream.

The static analyzer in GCC 10 spotted that in huge_pte_alloc() we may
pass a NULL pmdp into pte_alloc_map() when pmd_alloc() returns NULL:

|   CC      arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.o
|   CC      arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.o
|                  from arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c:10:
| arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c: In function ‘huge_pte_alloc’:
| ./arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-types.h:28:24: warning: dereference of NULL ‘pmdp’ [CWE-690] [-Wanalyzer-null-dereference]
| ./arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h:436:26: note: in expansion of macro ‘pmd_val’
| arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c:242:10: note: in expansion of macro ‘pte_alloc_map’
|     |arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c:232:10:
|     |./arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-types.h:28:24:
| ./arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h:436:26: note: in expansion of macro ‘pmd_val’
| arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c:242:10: note: in expansion of macro ‘pte_alloc_map’

This can only occur when the kernel cannot allocate a page, and so is
unlikely to happen in practice before other systems start failing.

We can avoid this by bailing out if pmd_alloc() fails, as we do earlier
in the function if pud_alloc() fails.

Fixes: 66b3923a1a0f ("arm64: hugetlb: add support for PTE contiguous bit")
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Reported-by: Kyrill Tkachov <kyrylo.tkachov@....com>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # 4.5.x-
Cc: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -230,6 +230,8 @@ pte_t *huge_pte_alloc(struct mm_struct *
 		ptep = (pte_t *)pudp;
 	} else if (sz == (CONT_PTE_SIZE)) {
 		pmdp = pmd_alloc(mm, pudp, addr);
+		if (!pmdp)
+			return NULL;
 
 		WARN_ON(addr & (sz - 1));
 		/*