mm/list_lru.c: avoid error-path NULL pointer deref
authorAlexander Polakov <apolyakov@beget.ru>
Fri, 28 Oct 2016 00:46:27 +0000 (17:46 -0700)
committerSasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Thu, 24 Nov 2016 01:59:49 +0000 (20:59 -0500)
commit55a2f87cd5642a68b19c4bea8fdce8bf2a84228e
treef97b5d158f2dfcd3d4b2bd129f9d30189458f2ad
parent52e7b6bd8378b1b194ad35a27a185dffa6fb4066
mm/list_lru.c: avoid error-path NULL pointer deref

[ Upstream commit 1bc11d70b5db7c6bb1414b283d7f09b1fe1ac0d0 ]

As described in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177821:

After some analysis it seems to be that the problem is in alloc_super().
In case list_lru_init_memcg() fails it goes into destroy_super(), which
calls list_lru_destroy().

And in list_lru_init() we see that in case memcg_init_list_lru() fails,
lru->node is freed, but not set NULL, which then leads list_lru_destroy()
to believe it is initialized and call memcg_destroy_list_lru().
memcg_destroy_list_lru() in turn can access lru->node[i].memcg_lrus,
which is NULL.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Polakov <apolyakov@beget.ru>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
mm/list_lru.c