Re: [PATCH v4] mm/ksm: Fix NULL pointer dereference when KSM zero page is enabled

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 10:50:34 +0800 Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The find_mergeable_vma can return NULL. In this case, it leads
> to a crash when we access vm_mm(its offset is 0x40) later in
> write_protect_page. And this case did happen on our server. The
> following call trace is captured in kernel 4.19 with the following
> patch applied and KSM zero page enabled on our server.
> 
>   commit e86c59b1b12d ("mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring")
> 
> So add a vma check to fix it.
>
> ...
>
> --- a/mm/ksm.c
> +++ b/mm/ksm.c
> @@ -2112,8 +2112,15 @@ static void cmp_and_merge_page(struct page *page, struct rmap_item *rmap_item)
> 
>  		down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
>  		vma = find_mergeable_vma(mm, rmap_item->address);
> -		err = try_to_merge_one_page(vma, page,
> -					    ZERO_PAGE(rmap_item->address));
> +		if (vma)
> +			err = try_to_merge_one_page(vma, page,
> +					ZERO_PAGE(rmap_item->address));
> +		else
> +			/**
> +			 * If the vma is out of date, we do not need to
> +			 * continue.
> +			 */
> +			err = 0;
>  		up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
>  		/*
>  		 * In case of failure, the page was not really empty, so we

Thanks.

It's conventional to put braces around multi-line blocks such as this.

Also, /** is specifically used to introduce kerneldoc comments.  This
comment is not a kerneldoc one so use /*.

--- a/mm/ksm.c~mm-ksm-fix-null-pointer-dereference-when-ksm-zero-page-is-enabled-v4-fix
+++ a/mm/ksm.c
@@ -2112,15 +2112,16 @@ static void cmp_and_merge_page(struct pa
 
 		down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 		vma = find_mergeable_vma(mm, rmap_item->address);
-		if (vma)
+		if (vma) {
 			err = try_to_merge_one_page(vma, page,
 					ZERO_PAGE(rmap_item->address));
-		else
-			/**
+		} else {
+			/*
 			 * If the vma is out of date, we do not need to
 			 * continue.
 			 */
 			err = 0;
+		}
 		up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 		/*
 		 * In case of failure, the page was not really empty, so we
_