From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
To: Ye Liu <ye.liu@linux.dev>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>, Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@linux.dev>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: debug_page_alloc: fix NULL buf in debug_guardpage_minorder_setup
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 19:36:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0fc85206-ce9f-4ac4-81cc-abe127ebb92f@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6ae9914b-7254-4a1e-8345-597d3c2d7ea2@linux.dev>
On 8/5/26 6:56 PM, Ye Liu wrote:
>
>
> 在 2026/8/6 09:08, John Hubbard 写道:
>> On 8/5/26 5:45 PM, Ye Liu wrote:
>>> From: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>
>>>
>>> If the kernel command line includes "debug_guardpage_minorder" without
>>> an equals sign (i.e., no value is provided), the early parameter
>>> parser passes a NULL buf pointer to the setup function.
>>>
>>> kstrtouint() does not perform a NULL check on its input and calls
>>> directly into kstrtoull() which dereferences s[0] unconditionally,
>>> leading to a NULL pointer dereference and early boot crash.
>>>
>>> Additionally, the error path's pr_err("%s", buf) would also crash with
>>> a NULL format argument.
>>>
>>
>> Maybe a "Fixes:" tag is called for?
>>
>
> Add the following Fixes. Thanks.
>
> Fixes: c0a32fc5a2e4 ("mm: more intensive memory corruption debugging")
>
Looks good,
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
thanks,
--
John Hubbard
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>
>>> ---
>>> mm/debug_page_alloc.c | 4 ++--
>>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/mm/debug_page_alloc.c b/mm/debug_page_alloc.c
>>> index 41e3d1f1ad96..fd2664c3c86a 100644
>>> --- a/mm/debug_page_alloc.c
>>> +++ b/mm/debug_page_alloc.c
>>> @@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ static int __init debug_guardpage_minorder_setup(char *buf)
>>> {
>>> unsigned int res;
>>>
>>> - if (kstrtouint(buf, 10, &res) < 0 || res > MAX_PAGE_ORDER / 2) {
>>> - pr_err("Bad debug_guardpage_minorder value: %s\n", buf);
>>> + if (!buf || kstrtouint(buf, 10, &res) < 0 || res > MAX_PAGE_ORDER / 2) {
>>> + pr_err("Bad debug_guardpage_minorder value: %s\n", buf ?: "(missing)");
>>> return 0;
>>> }
>>> _debug_guardpage_minorder = res;
>>
>> thanks,
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-06 2:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-06 0:45 [PATCH] mm: debug_page_alloc: fix NULL buf in debug_guardpage_minorder_setup Ye Liu
2026-08-06 1:00 ` Zi Yan
2026-08-06 1:08 ` John Hubbard
2026-08-06 1:56 ` Ye Liu
2026-08-06 2:36 ` John Hubbard [this message]
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