FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/slub: avoid accessing metadata when pointer is invalid in" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.1.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x b4efccec8d06ceb10a7d34d7b1c449c569d53770
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2025090620-evaluator-visiting-ac7e@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.1.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From b4efccec8d06ceb10a7d34d7b1c449c569d53770 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Li Qiong <liqiong@nfschina.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2025 10:57:59 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] mm/slub: avoid accessing metadata when pointer is invalid in
 object_err()

object_err() reports details of an object for further debugging, such as
the freelist pointer, redzone, etc. However, if the pointer is invalid,
attempting to access object metadata can lead to a crash since it does
not point to a valid object.

One known path to the crash is when alloc_consistency_checks()
determines the pointer to the allocated object is invalid because of a
freelist corruption, and calls object_err() to report it. The debug code
should report and handle the corruption gracefully and not crash in the
process.

In case the pointer is NULL or check_valid_pointer() returns false for
the pointer, only print the pointer value and skip accessing metadata.

Fixes: 81819f0fc828 ("SLUB core")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Li Qiong <liqiong@nfschina.com>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 30003763d224..1787e4d51e48 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1140,7 +1140,12 @@ static void object_err(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab,
 		return;
 
 	slab_bug(s, reason);
-	print_trailer(s, slab, object);
+	if (!object || !check_valid_pointer(s, slab, object)) {
+		print_slab_info(slab);
+		pr_err("Invalid pointer 0x%p\n", object);
+	} else {
+		print_trailer(s, slab, object);
+	}
 	add_taint(TAINT_BAD_PAGE, LOCKDEP_NOW_UNRELIABLE);
 
 	WARN_ON(1);