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Message-ID: <20200923134251.GN795820@optiplex-lnx>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 09:42:51 -0400
From: Rafael Aquini <aquini@...hat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
ying.huang@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: swapfile: avoid split_swap_cluster() NULL pointer
dereference
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 12:47:50PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:48:38 -0400 Rafael Aquini <aquini@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> > The swap area descriptor only gets struct swap_cluster_info *cluster_info
> > allocated if the swapfile is backed by non-rotational storage.
> > When the swap area is laid on top of ordinary disk spindles, lock_cluster()
> > will naturally return NULL.
> >
> > CONFIG_THP_SWAP exposes cluster_info infrastructure to a broader number of
> > use cases, and split_swap_cluster(), which is the counterpart of split_huge_page()
> > for the THPs in the swapcache, misses checking the return of lock_cluster before
> > operating on the cluster_info pointer.
> >
> > This patch addresses that issue by adding a proper check for the pointer
> > not being NULL in the wrappers cluster_{is,clear}_huge(), in order to avoid
> > crashes similar to the one below:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Fixes: 59807685a7e77 ("mm, THP, swap: support splitting THP for THP swap out")
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@...hat.com>
>
> Did you consider cc:stable?
>
UGH! I missed adding it to my cc list. Shall I just forward it, now, or
do you prefer a fresh repost?
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