4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Vlastimil Babka <vba...@suse.cz>
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/20170118141124.8345-1-vba...@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vba...@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarca...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
mm/mempolicy.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2023,8 +2023,8 @@ 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;
