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author | Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> | 2014-01-23 15:53:01 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-01-23 16:36:51 -0800 |
commit | 96403da244443d9842dbf290c2a02390b78a158e (patch) | |
tree | ca3ccfc550f9c3ef0cf2baa634e784a6a66b3f73 /lib/string_helpers.c | |
parent | 959c8963fc6c8c9b97e80c55ce77105247040e7d (diff) |
memcg: fix possible NULL deref while traversing memcg_slab_caches list
All caches of the same memory cgroup are linked in the memcg_slab_caches
list via kmem_cache::memcg_params::list. This list is traversed, for
example, when we read memory.kmem.slabinfo.
Since the list actually consists of memcg_cache_params objects, we have
to convert an element of the list to a kmem_cache object using
memcg_params_to_cache(), which obtains the pointer to the cache from the
memcg_params::memcg_caches array of the corresponding root cache. That
said the pointer to a kmem_cache in its parent's memcg_params must be
initialized before adding the cache to the list, and cleared only after
it has been unlinked. Currently it is vice-versa, which can result in a
NULL ptr dereference while traversing the memcg_slab_caches list. This
patch restores the correct order.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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