[ 06/82] mm: fix NULL ptr deref when walking hugepages

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Jun 07 2012 - 00:15:24 EST


3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 08fa29d916c6e271ad13978cd993e7238c68db97 upstream.

A missing validation of the value returned by find_vma() could cause a
NULL ptr dereference when walking the pagetable.

This is triggerable from usermode by a simple user by trying to read a
page info out of /proc/pid/pagemap which doesn't exist.

Introduced by commit 025c5b2451e4 ("thp: optimize away unnecessary page
table locking").

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -784,7 +784,7 @@ static int pagemap_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd,

/* find the first VMA at or above 'addr' */
vma = find_vma(walk->mm, addr);
- if (pmd_trans_huge_lock(pmd, vma) == 1) {
+ if (vma && pmd_trans_huge_lock(pmd, vma) == 1) {
for (; addr != end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
unsigned long offset;



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