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)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 25 Jan 2017 00:26:14 +0000 (16:26 -0800)
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>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.0+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/mempolicy.c

index 2e34664..1e7873e 100644 (file)
@@ -2017,8 +2017,8 @@ 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;