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[091/104] mm/huge_memory.c: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

Message ID 1380535881-9239-92-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com
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Luis Henriques Sept. 30, 2013, 10:11 a.m. UTC 
3.5.7.22 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Libin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>

commit a8f531ebc33052642b4bd7b812eedf397108ce64 upstream.

In collapse_huge_page() there is a race window between releasing the
mmap_sem read lock and taking the mmap_sem write lock, so find_vma() may
return NULL.  So check the return value to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

collapse_huge_page
	khugepaged_alloc_page
		up_read(&mm->mmap_sem)
	down_write(&mm->mmap_sem)
	vma = find_vma(mm, address)

Signed-off-by: Libin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 7d0eb9e..613d436 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1900,6 +1900,8 @@  static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
 		goto out;
 
 	vma = find_vma(mm, address);
+	if (!vma)
+		goto out;
 	hstart = (vma->vm_start + ~HPAGE_PMD_MASK) & HPAGE_PMD_MASK;
 	hend = vma->vm_end & HPAGE_PMD_MASK;
 	if (address < hstart || address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE > hend)