linux-kernel - [PATCH] powerpc/mm: add sanity check to avoid null pointer dereference

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Message-Id: <1609125050-240351-1-git-send-email-bodefang@126.com>
Date:   Mon, 28 Dec 2020 11:10:50 +0800
From:   Defang Bo <bodefang@....com>
To:     mpe@...erman.id.au, benh@...nel.crashing.org, paulus@...ba.org,
        christophe.leroy@...roup.eu, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        geert@...ux-m68k.org, rppt@...nel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Defang Bo <bodefang@....com>
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/mm: add sanity check to avoid null pointer dereference

Similar to commit<0dc294f717d4>("powerpc/mm: bail out early when flushing TLB page"),
there should be a check for 'mm' to prevent Null pointer dereference
in case of 'mm' argument was legitimately passed.

Signed-off-by: Defang Bo <bodefang@....com>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/nohash/tlb.c | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/nohash/tlb.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/nohash/tlb.c
index 5872f69..1d89335 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/nohash/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/nohash/tlb.c
@@ -192,6 +192,9 @@ void local_flush_tlb_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
 	unsigned int pid;
 
+	if (WARN_ON(!mm))
+		return;
+
 	preempt_disable();
 	pid = mm->context.id;
 	if (pid != MMU_NO_CONTEXT)
@@ -205,8 +208,11 @@ void __local_flush_tlb_page(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long vmaddr,
 {
 	unsigned int pid;
 
+	if (WARN_ON(!mm))
+		return;
+
 	preempt_disable();
-	pid = mm ? mm->context.id : 0;
+	pid = mm->context.id;
 	if (pid != MMU_NO_CONTEXT)
 		_tlbil_va(vmaddr, pid, tsize, ind);
 	preempt_enable();
@@ -268,6 +274,9 @@ void flush_tlb_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
 	unsigned int pid;
 
+	if (WARN_ON(!mm))
+		return;
+
 	preempt_disable();
 	pid = mm->context.id;
 	if (unlikely(pid == MMU_NO_CONTEXT))
-- 
2.7.4