linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm/sparse:avoid null pointer access in memory

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Date:   Sat, 17 Jun 2023 14:40:36 +1000
From:   Liam Ni <zhiguangni01@...il.com>
To:     dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, luto@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
        tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de, x86@...nel.org,
        hpa@...or.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, rppt@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        zhiguangni01@...il.com
Subject: [PATCH] mm/sparse:avoid null pointer access in memory_present()

__nr_to_section() may return a null pointer,
before accessing the member variable section_mem_map,
we should first determine whether it is a null pointer.

Signed-off-by: Liam Ni <zhiguangni01@...il.com>
---
 mm/sparse.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
index 4e6e3a9d49dc..37fa3818bc25 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ static void __init memory_present(int nid, unsigned long start, unsigned long en
 		set_section_nid(section, nid);
 
 		ms = __nr_to_section(section);
-		if (!ms->section_mem_map) {
+		if (ms && !ms->section_mem_map) {
 			ms->section_mem_map = sparse_encode_early_nid(nid) |
 							SECTION_IS_ONLINE;
 			__section_mark_present(ms, section);
-- 
2.25.1