[PATCH 3.18 07/52] slab: alien caches must not be initialized if the allocation of the alien cache failed

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

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

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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 09c2e76ed734a1d36470d257a778aaba28e86531 upstream.

Callers of __alloc_alien() check for NULL.  We must do the same check in
__alloc_alien_cache to avoid NULL pointer dereferences on allocation
failures.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/010001680f42f192-82b4e12e-1565-4ee0-ae1f-1e98974906aa-000000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 49dfc304ba241 ("slab: use the lock on alien_cache, instead of the lock on array_cache")
Fixes: c8522a3a5832b ("Slab: introduce alloc_alien")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: syzbot+d6ed4ec679652b4fd4e4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 mm/slab.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -869,8 +869,10 @@ static struct alien_cache *__alloc_alien
 	struct alien_cache *alc = NULL;
 
 	alc = kmalloc_node(memsize, gfp, node);
-	init_arraycache(&alc->ac, entries, batch);
-	spin_lock_init(&alc->lock);
+	if (alc) {
+		init_arraycache(&alc->ac, entries, batch);
+		spin_lock_init(&alc->lock);
+	}
 	return alc;
 }