mm/mempolicy.c: do not put mempolicy before using its nodemask
authorVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Tue, 24 Jan 2017 23:18:18 +0000 (15:18 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 1 Feb 2017 07:33:04 +0000 (08:33 +0100)
commit9b1a1ae9b5281e12893a34bcbd1686b5bcd2cd82
treeeeb0e09321d045b46c66a1ba5a684b4d2072154e
parent6676aa65464f23e32efe1857a51fe341dfb10e03
mm/mempolicy.c: do not put mempolicy before using its nodemask

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-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/mempolicy.c