On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 01:26:43PM +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
thanks,
greg k-h
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From 027d0c7101f50cf03aeea9eebf484afd4920c8d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 13:59:30 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] arm64: hugetlb: avoid potential NULL dereference MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
The static analyzer in GCC 10 spotted that in huge_pte_alloc() we may pass a NULL pmdp into pte_alloc_map() when pmd_alloc() returns NULL:
| CC arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.o | CC arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.o | from arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c:10: | arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c: In function ‘huge_pte_alloc’: | ./arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-types.h:28:24: warning: dereference of NULL ‘pmdp’ [CWE-690] [-Wanalyzer-null-dereference] | ./arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h:436:26: note: in expansion of macro ‘pmd_val’ | arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c:242:10: note: in expansion of macro ‘pte_alloc_map’ | |arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c:232:10: | |./arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-types.h:28:24: | ./arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h:436:26: note: in expansion of macro ‘pmd_val’ | arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c:242:10: note: in expansion of macro ‘pte_alloc_map’
This can only occur when the kernel cannot allocate a page, and so is unlikely to happen in practice before other systems start failing.
We can avoid this by bailing out if pmd_alloc() fails, as we do earlier in the function if pud_alloc() fails.
Fixes: 66b3923a1a0f ("arm64: hugetlb: add support for PTE contiguous bit") Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com Reported-by: Kyrill Tkachov kyrylo.tkachov@arm.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.5.x- Cc: Will Deacon will@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas@arm.com
There was a context conflict with 441a62780687 ("arm64/hugetlb: Use macros for contiguous huge page sizes"). I've fixed it and queued the patch for 4.14 and 4.9.