Re: [PATCH] lib/test_vmalloc.c: avoid garbage in page array

Baoquan He
2023-05-27T10:14:57Z

On 05/24/23 at 09:24am, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> It turns out that alloc_pages_bulk_array() does not treat the page_array
> parameter as an output parameter, but rather reads the array and skips any
> entries that have already been allocated.
>
> This is somewhat unexpected and breaks this test, as we allocate the pages
> array uninitialised on the assumption it will be overwritten.
>
> As a result, the test was referencing uninitialised data and causing the
> PFN to not be valid and thus a WARN_ON() followed by a null pointer deref
> and panic.
>
> In addition, this is an array of pointers not of struct page objects, so we
> need only allocate an array with elements of pointer size.
>
> We solve both problems by simply using kcalloc() and referencing
> sizeof(struct page *) rather than sizeof(struct page).
>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
> ---
> lib/test_vmalloc.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/test_vmalloc.c b/lib/test_vmalloc.c
> index 9dd9745d365f..3718d9886407 100644
> --- a/lib/test_vmalloc.c
> +++ b/lib/test_vmalloc.c
> @@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ vm_map_ram_test(void)
> int i;
>
> map_nr_pages = nr_pages > 0 ? nr_pages:1;
> - pages = kmalloc(map_nr_pages * sizeof(struct page), GFP_KERNEL);
> + pages = kcalloc(map_nr_pages, sizeof(struct page *), GFP_KERNEL);

This is a great fix, ack.

Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>

> if (!pages)
> return -1;
>
> --
> 2.40.1
>