From cdb281e63874086a650552d36c504ea717a0e0cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Qi Zheng Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 14:24:36 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] mm: fix NULL pointer dereference in wp_page_reuse() The vmf->page can be NULL when the wp_page_reuse() is invoked by wp_pfn_shared(), it will cause the following panic: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000008 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI CPU: 18 PID: 923 Comm: Xorg Not tainted 5.19.0-rc8.bm.1-amd64 #263 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g14 RIP: 0010:_compound_head+0x0/0x40 [...] Call Trace: wp_page_reuse+0x1c/0xa0 do_wp_page+0x1a5/0x3f0 __handle_mm_fault+0x8cf/0xd20 handle_mm_fault+0xd5/0x2a0 do_user_addr_fault+0x1d0/0x680 exc_page_fault+0x78/0x170 asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 To fix it, this patch performs a NULL pointer check before dereferencing the vmf->page. Fixes: 6c287605fd56 ("mm: remember exclusively mapped anonymous pages with PG_anon_exclusive") Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/memory.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 4cf7d4b..9174918 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -3043,7 +3043,7 @@ static inline void wp_page_reuse(struct vm_fault *vmf) pte_t entry; VM_BUG_ON(!(vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE)); - VM_BUG_ON(PageAnon(page) && !PageAnonExclusive(page)); + VM_BUG_ON(page && PageAnon(page) && !PageAnonExclusive(page)); /* * Clear the pages cpupid information as the existing -- 2.7.4