Summary: Avoid null ptr defererence in __alloc_pages
This exists in 2.4. and 2.5
Configuration: a NUMA (ia32) system which only has highmem
on one or more nodes.
Action to create: Try to allocate ZONE_NORMAL memory
from a node which only has highmem. What we should do
is fall back to another node, looking for ZONE_NORMAL
memory.
In looking at the specified zonelist, we panic because that zonelist
is NULL. The simple patch below avoids the null deference, and
returns failure. alloc_pages will continue looking through the nodes
until it finds one with some ZONE_NORMAL memory. We actually
panic at the moment a few lines later when we do,
classzone->need_balance = 1; thus dereferencing the pointer.
--- linux-2.4.18-memalloc/mm/page_alloc.c.old Fri Mar 8 18:21:41 2002
+++ linux-2.4.18-memalloc/mm/page_alloc.c Fri Mar 8 18:23:27 2002
@@ -317,6 +317,8 @@
zone = zonelist->zones;
classzone = *zone;
+ if (classzone == NULL)
+ return NULL;
min = 1UL << order;
for (;;) {
zone_t *z = *(zone++);
-
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