4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> commit d51e9894d27492783fc6d1b489070b4ba66ce969 upstream. Since commit be97a41b291e ("mm/mempolicy.c: merge alloc_hugepage_vma to alloc_pages_vma") alloc_pages_vma() can potentially free a mempolicy by mpol_cond_put() before accessing the embedded nodemask by __alloc_pages_nodemask(). The commit log says it's so "we can use a single exit path within the function" but that's clearly wrong. We can still do that when doing mpol_cond_put() after the allocation attempt. Make sure the mempolicy is not freed prematurely, otherwise __alloc_pages_nodemask() can end up using a bogus nodemask, which could lead e.g. to premature OOM. Fixes: be97a41b291e ("mm/mempolicy.c: merge alloc_hugepage_vma to alloc_pages_vma") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <[email protected]> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- mm/mempolicy.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -2006,8 +2006,8 @@ retry_cpuset: nmask = policy_nodemask(gfp, pol); zl = policy_zonelist(gfp, pol, node); - mpol_cond_put(pol); page = __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp, order, zl, nmask); + mpol_cond_put(pol); out: if (unlikely(!page && read_mems_allowed_retry(cpuset_mems_cookie))) goto retry_cpuset;
