slub: avoid potential NULL dereference or corruption
authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:02:02 +0000 (16:02 +0100)
committerPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:44:19 +0000 (08:44 +0200)
show_slab_objects() can trigger NULL dereferences or memory corruption.

Another cpu can change its c->page to NULL or c->node to NUMA_NO_NODE
while we use them.

Use ACCESS_ONCE(c->page) and ACCESS_ONCE(c->node) to make sure this
cannot happen.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>

mm/slub.c

index 2a9cfd7..ed3334d 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -4444,30 +4444,31 @@ static ssize_t show_slab_objects(struct kmem_cache *s,
 
                for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
                        struct kmem_cache_cpu *c = per_cpu_ptr(s->cpu_slab, cpu);
+                       int node = ACCESS_ONCE(c->node);
                        struct page *page;
 
-                       if (!c || c->node < 0)
+                       if (node < 0)
                                continue;
-
-                       if (c->page) {
-                                       if (flags & SO_TOTAL)
-                                               x = c->page->objects;
+                       page = ACCESS_ONCE(c->page);
+                       if (page) {
+                               if (flags & SO_TOTAL)
+                                       x = page->objects;
                                else if (flags & SO_OBJECTS)
-                                       x = c->page->inuse;
+                                       x = page->inuse;
                                else
                                        x = 1;
 
                                total += x;
-                               nodes[c->node] += x;
+                               nodes[node] += x;
                        }
                        page = c->partial;
 
                        if (page) {
                                x = page->pobjects;
-                                total += x;
-                                nodes[c->node] += x;
+                               total += x;
+                               nodes[node] += x;
                        }
-                       per_cpu[c->node]++;
+                       per_cpu[node]++;
                }
        }