[PATCH 3.16 182/366] mm/filemap.c: fix NULL pointer in page_cache_tree_insert()

Ben Hutchings
2018-10-14T23:23:15Z

From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>

commit abc1be13fd113ddef5e2d807a466286b864caed3 upstream.

f2fs specifies the __GFP_ZERO flag for allocating some of its pages.
Unfortunately, the page cache also uses the mapping's GFP flags for
allocating radix tree nodes. It always masked off the __GFP_HIGHMEM
flag, and masks off __GFP_ZERO in some paths, but not all. That causes
radix tree nodes to be allocated with a NULL list_head, which causes
backtraces like:

__list_del_entry+0x30/0xd0
list_lru_del+0xac/0x1ac
page_cache_tree_insert+0xd8/0x110

The __GFP_DMA and __GFP_DMA32 flags would also be able to sneak through
if they are ever used. Fix them all by using GFP_RECLAIM_MASK at the
innermost location, and remove it from earlier in the callchain.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180411060320.14458-2-willy@infradead.org
Fixes: 449dd6984d0e ("mm: keep page cache radix tree nodes in check")
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Reported-by: Chris Fries <cfries@google.com>
Debugged-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
- Drop change in page_cache_read(), which always passes GFP_KERNEL
- Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ int replace_page_cache_page(struct page
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(new), new);
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(new->mapping, new);

- error = radix_tree_preload(gfp_mask & ~__GFP_HIGHMEM);
+ error = radix_tree_preload(gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK);
if (!error) {
struct address_space *mapping = old->mapping;
void (*freepage)(struct page *);
@@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ static int __add_to_page_cache_locked(st
if (error)
return error;

- error = radix_tree_maybe_preload(gfp_mask & ~__GFP_HIGHMEM);
+ error = radix_tree_maybe_preload(gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK);
if (error) {
mem_cgroup_uncharge_cache_page(page);
return error;
@@ -1111,8 +1111,7 @@ no_page:
if (fgp_flags & FGP_ACCESSED)
init_page_accessed(page);

- err = add_to_page_cache_lru(page, mapping, offset,
- gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK);
+ err = add_to_page_cache_lru(page, mapping, offset, gfp_mask);
if (unlikely(err)) {
page_cache_release(page);
page = NULL;