3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com
commit 9dff0aa95a324e262ffb03f425d00e4751f3294e upstream.
The perf tool uses /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb to determine how large its ringbuffer mmap should be. This can be configured to arbitrary values, which can be larger than the maximum possible allocation from kmalloc.
When this is configured to a suitably large value (e.g. thanks to the perf fuzzer), attempting to use perf record triggers a WARN_ON_ONCE() in __alloc_pages_nodemask():
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 5666 at mm/page_alloc.c:4511 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x3f8/0xbc8
Let's avoid this by checking that the requested allocation is possible before calling kzalloc.
Reported-by: Julien Thierry julien.thierry@arm.com Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry julien.thierry@arm.com Cc: Alexander Shishkin alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com Cc: Jiri Olsa jolsa@redhat.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Namhyung Kim namhyung@kernel.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190110142745.25495-1-mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c @@ -282,6 +282,9 @@ struct ring_buffer *rb_alloc(int nr_page size = sizeof(struct ring_buffer); size += nr_pages * sizeof(void *);
+ if (order_base_2(size) >= MAX_ORDER) + goto fail; + rb = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); if (!rb) goto fail;