linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: page_alloc: check the order of compound page event when the order is 0

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Date:   Thu, 12 Oct 2023 10:11:06 +0900
From:   Hyesoo Yu <hyesoo.yu@...sung.com>
To:     unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)
Cc:     Hyesoo Yu <hyesoo.yu@...sung.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm: page_alloc: check the order of compound page event when
 the order is 0

For compound pages, the head sets the PG_head flag and
the tail sets the compound_head to indicate the head page.
If a user allocates a compound page and frees it with a different
order, the compound page information will not be properly
initialized. To detect this problem, compound_page(page) and
the order are compared, but it is not checked when the order is 0.
That error should be checked regardless of the order.

Signed-off-by: Hyesoo Yu <hyesoo.yu@...sung.com>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 95546f376302..fc92ac93c7c8 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1078,6 +1078,7 @@ static __always_inline bool free_pages_prepare(struct page *page,
 	int bad = 0;
 	bool skip_kasan_poison = should_skip_kasan_poison(page, fpi_flags);
 	bool init = want_init_on_free();
+	bool compound = PageCompound(page);
 
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageTail(page), page);
 
@@ -1096,16 +1097,15 @@ static __always_inline bool free_pages_prepare(struct page *page,
 		return false;
 	}
 
+	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound && compound_order(page) != order, page);
+
 	/*
 	 * Check tail pages before head page information is cleared to
 	 * avoid checking PageCompound for order-0 pages.
 	 */
 	if (unlikely(order)) {
-		bool compound = PageCompound(page);
 		int i;
 
-		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound && compound_order(page) != order, page);
-
 		if (compound)
 			page[1].flags &= ~PAGE_FLAGS_SECOND;
 		for (i = 1; i < (1 << order); i++) {
-- 
2.25.1