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Commit 1c72ac7b authored by Vlastimil Babka's avatar Vlastimil Babka Committed by Paul Gortmaker
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mm, compaction: fix wrong pfn handling in __reset_isolation_pfn()

commit a2e9a5af upstream.

Florian and Dave reported [1] a NULL pointer dereference in
__reset_isolation_pfn().  While the exact cause is unclear, staring at
the code revealed two bugs, which might be related.

One bug is that if zone starts in the middle of pageblock, block_page
might correspond to different pfn than block_pfn, and then the
pfn_valid_within() checks will check different pfn's than those accessed
via struct page.  This might result in acessing an unitialized page in
CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE configs.

The other bug is that end_page refers to the first page of next
pageblock and not last page of current pageblock.  The online and valid
check is then wrong and with sections, the while (page < end_page) loop
might wander off actual struct page arrays.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/87o8z1fvqu.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de/

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191008152915.24704-1-vbabka@suse.cz


Fixes: 6b0868c8 ("mm/compaction.c: correct zone boundary handling when resetting pageblock skip hints")
Signed-off-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reported-by: default avatarFlorian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Reported-by: default avatarDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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