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Message-ID: <621fb975-413d-a6b4-8126-0b78d5b60853@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 09:45:20 +0200
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@...edance.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix NULL pointer dereference in wp_page_reuse()
On 26.07.22 08:24, Qi Zheng wrote:
> The vmf->page can be NULL when the wp_page_reuse() is invoked
> by wp_pfn_shared(), it will cause the following panic:
>
> [ 12.981200] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000008
> [ 12.981954] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
> [ 12.982615] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
> [ 12.983146] PGD 0 P4D 0
> [ 12.983417] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
> [ 12.983846] CPU: 18 PID: 923 Comm: Xorg Not tainted 5.19.0-rc8.bm.1-amd64 #263
> [ 12.984606] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g14
> [ 12.985760] RIP: 0010:_compound_head+0x0/0x40
> [...]
> [ 12.995932] Call Trace:
> [ 12.996199] <TASK>
> [ 12.996424] wp_page_reuse+0x1c/0xa0
> [ 12.996800] do_wp_page+0x1a5/0x3f0
> [ 12.997169] __handle_mm_fault+0x8cf/0xd20
> [ 12.997587] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x23/0x35
> [ 12.998105] handle_mm_fault+0xd5/0x2a0
> [ 12.998499] do_user_addr_fault+0x1d0/0x680
> [ 12.998930] exc_page_fault+0x78/0x170
> [ 12.999321] asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
>
> To fix it, this patch performs a NULL pointer check before
> dereferencing the vmf->page.
>
> Fixes: 6c287605fd56 ("mm: remember exclusively mapped anonymous pages with PG_anon_exclusive")
> Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@...edance.com>
> ---
> mm/memory.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index 4cf7d4b6c950..9174918ce3f7 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -3043,7 +3043,7 @@ static inline void wp_page_reuse(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> pte_t entry;
>
> VM_BUG_ON(!(vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE));
> - VM_BUG_ON(PageAnon(page) && !PageAnonExclusive(page));
> + VM_BUG_ON(page && PageAnon(page) && !PageAnonExclusive(page));
>
> /*
> * Clear the pages cpupid information as the existing
Indeed, fortunately, only an issue in the VM_BUG_ON statement
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
--
Thanks,
David / dhildenb
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