From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, maple-tree@lists.infradead.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Hajime Tazaki <thehajime@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nommu: pass NULL argument to vma_iter_prealloc()
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 08:46:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241112084603.1c4e351fe21c9602422bf052@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uyvmziiho2gq2h2f2qwxob2ji7xztrkpxadhcso5lpdrplt24q@nyuqxxiww623>
On Tue, 12 Nov 2024 07:46:18 -0500 "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> Just in case you didn't notice, this patch was reviewed on another list.
>
> Thanks,
> Liam
>
> * Hajime Tazaki <thehajime@gmail.com> [241108 17:29]:
> > When deleting a vma entry from a maple tree, it has to pass NULL to
> > vma_iter_prealloc() in order to calculate internal state of the tree,
> > but it passed a wrong argument. As a result, nommu kernels crashed upon
> > accessing a vma iterator, such as acct_collect() reading the size of
> > vma entries after do_munmap().
> >
> > This commit fixes this issue by passing a right argument to the
> > preallocation call.
> >
> > Fixes: b5df09226450 ("mm: set up vma iterator for vma_iter_prealloc() calls")
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Hajime Tazaki <thehajime@gmail.com>
Yep, thanks, 247d720b2c5d in mm-hotfixes-stable.
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2024-11-08 22:28 [PATCH] nommu: pass NULL argument to vma_iter_prealloc() Hajime Tazaki
2024-11-12 12:46 ` Liam R. Howlett
2024-11-12 16:46 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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