[PATCH 5.4 61/65] mm, compaction: fully assume capture is not NULL in compact_zone_order()

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

commit 6467552ca64c4ddd2b83ed73192107d7145f533b upstream.

Dan reports:

The patch 5e1f0f098b46: "mm, compaction: capture a page under direct
compaction" from Mar 5, 2019, leads to the following Smatch complaint:

    mm/compaction.c:2321 compact_zone_order()
     error: we previously assumed 'capture' could be null (see line 2313)

mm/compaction.c
  2288  static enum compact_result compact_zone_order(struct zone *zone, int order,
  2289                  gfp_t gfp_mask, enum compact_priority prio,
  2290                  unsigned int alloc_flags, int classzone_idx,
  2291                  struct page **capture)
                                      ^^^^^^^

  2313		if (capture)
                    ^^^^^^^
Check for NULL

  2314			current->capture_control = &capc;
  2315
  2316		ret = compact_zone(&cc, &capc);
  2317
  2318		VM_BUG_ON(!list_empty(&cc.freepages));
  2319		VM_BUG_ON(!list_empty(&cc.migratepages));
  2320
  2321		*capture = capc.page;
                ^^^^^^^^
Unchecked dereference.

  2322		current->capture_control = NULL;
  2323

In practice this is not an issue, as the only caller path passes non-NULL
capture:

__alloc_pages_direct_compact()
  struct page *page = NULL;
  try_to_compact_pages(capture = &page);
    compact_zone_order(capture = capture);

So let's remove the unnecessary check, which should also make Smatch happy.

Fixes: 5e1f0f098b46 ("mm, compaction: capture a page under direct compaction")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/18b0df3c-0589-d96c-23fa-040798fee187@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 mm/compaction.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -2310,8 +2310,7 @@ static enum compact_result compact_zone_
 		.page = NULL,
 	};
 
-	if (capture)
-		current->capture_control = &capc;
+	current->capture_control = &capc;
 
 	ret = compact_zone(&cc, &capc);
 
@@ -2333,6 +2332,7 @@ int sysctl_extfrag_threshold = 500;
  * @alloc_flags: The allocation flags of the current allocation
  * @ac: The context of current allocation
  * @prio: Determines how hard direct compaction should try to succeed
+ * @capture: Pointer to free page created by compaction will be stored here
  *
  * This is the main entry point for direct page compaction.
  */