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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Li Qiong <liqiong@nfschina.com>, Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>,
	"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.12.y 4/4] mm/slub: avoid accessing metadata when pointer is invalid in object_err()
Date: Sat,  6 Sep 2025 17:25:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250906212530.302670-4-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250906212530.302670-1-sashal@kernel.org>

From: Li Qiong <liqiong@nfschina.com>

[ Upstream commit b4efccec8d06ceb10a7d34d7b1c449c569d53770 ]

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>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 mm/slub.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 39fb2b930fdf7..6643fc0e29c1e 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1113,7 +1113,12 @@ 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);
-- 
2.51.0


      parent reply	other threads:[~2025-09-06 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-06 18:39 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/slub: avoid accessing metadata when pointer is invalid in" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree gregkh
2025-09-06 21:25 ` [PATCH 6.12.y 1/4] mm: slub: Print the broken data before restoring them Sasha Levin
2025-09-06 21:25   ` [PATCH 6.12.y 2/4] mm: slub: call WARN() when detecting a slab corruption Sasha Levin
2025-09-06 21:25   ` [PATCH 6.12.y 3/4] mm, slab: cleanup slab_bug() parameters Sasha Levin
2025-09-06 21:25   ` Sasha Levin [this message]

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