Patch "mm/list_lru.c: avoid error-path NULL pointer deref" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mm/list_lru.c: avoid error-path NULL pointer deref

to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     mm-list_lru.c-avoid-error-path-null-pointer-deref.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 1bc11d70b5db7c6bb1414b283d7f09b1fe1ac0d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Polakov <apolyakov@beget.ru>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 17:46:27 -0700
Subject: mm/list_lru.c: avoid error-path NULL pointer deref

From: Alexander Polakov <apolyakov@beget.ru>

commit 1bc11d70b5db7c6bb1414b283d7f09b1fe1ac0d0 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/list_lru.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/list_lru.c
+++ b/mm/list_lru.c
@@ -554,6 +554,8 @@ int __list_lru_init(struct list_lru *lru
 	err = memcg_init_list_lru(lru, memcg_aware);
 	if (err) {
 		kfree(lru->node);
+		/* Do this so a list_lru_destroy() doesn't crash: */
+		lru->node = NULL;
 		goto out;
 	}
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from apolyakov@beget.ru are

queue-4.8/mm-list_lru.c-avoid-error-path-null-pointer-deref.patch