Commit d51e9894 authored by Vlastimil Babka's avatar Vlastimil Babka Committed by Linus Torvalds

mm/mempolicy.c: do not put mempolicy before using its nodemask

Since commit be97a41b ("mm/mempolicy.c: merge alloc_hugepage_vma to
alloc_pages_vma") alloc_pages_vma() can potentially free a mempolicy by
mpol_cond_put() before accessing the embedded nodemask by
__alloc_pages_nodemask().  The commit log says it's so "we can use a
single exit path within the function" but that's clearly wrong.  We can
still do that when doing mpol_cond_put() after the allocation attempt.

Make sure the mempolicy is not freed prematurely, otherwise
__alloc_pages_nodemask() can end up using a bogus nodemask, which could
lead e.g.  to premature OOM.

Fixes: be97a41b ("mm/mempolicy.c: merge alloc_hugepage_vma to alloc_pages_vma")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118141124.8345-1-vbabka@suse.czSigned-off-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[4.0+]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent dd040b6f
......@@ -2017,8 +2017,8 @@ alloc_pages_vma(gfp_t gfp, int order, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
nmask = policy_nodemask(gfp, pol);
zl = policy_zonelist(gfp, pol, node);
mpol_cond_put(pol);
page = __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp, order, zl, nmask);
mpol_cond_put(pol);
out:
if (unlikely(!page && read_mems_allowed_retry(cpuset_mems_cookie)))
goto retry_cpuset;
......
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