[PATCH 4.14 20/95] mm/hugetlb: fix NULL-pointer dereference on 5-level paging machine

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Dec 04 2017 - 11:03:55 EST


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

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From: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit f4f0a3d85b50a65a348e2b8635041d6b30f01deb upstream.

I made a mistake during converting hugetlb code to 5-level paging: in
huge_pte_alloc() we have to use p4d_alloc(), not p4d_offset().

Otherwise it leads to crash -- NULL-pointer dereference in pud_alloc()
if p4d table is not yet allocated.

It only can happen in 5-level paging mode. In 4-level paging mode
p4d_offset() always returns pgd, so we are fine.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171122121921.64822-1-kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: c2febafc6773 ("mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging")
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
mm/hugetlb.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -4625,7 +4625,9 @@ pte_t *huge_pte_alloc(struct mm_struct *
pte_t *pte = NULL;

pgd = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
- p4d = p4d_offset(pgd, addr);
+ p4d = p4d_alloc(mm, pgd, addr);
+ if (!p4d)
+ return NULL;
pud = pud_alloc(mm, p4d, addr);
if (pud) {
if (sz == PUD_SIZE) {