Re: [PATCH mm v2] mm: hugetlb: Add checks for NULL for vma returned from find_vma.

["Екатерина Есина" <eesina@astralinux.ru>]

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The patch can be applied up to 5.12 version and in 5.13 the logic of the function huge_pmd_share changes. And in later versions vma is passed as a function argument. 
  
Best regards,
Ekaterina Esina 
   
   

-----Original Message-----

From: Mike <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
To: Esina <eesina@astralinux.ru>
Cc: Andrew <akpm@linux-foundation.org>; linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>; linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; lvc-project <lvc-project@linuxtesting.org>
Date: Monday, 16 January 2023 9:30 PM MSK
Subject: Re: [PATCH mm v2] mm: hugetlb: Add checks for NULL for vma returned from find_vma.

On 01/16/23 13:39, Esina Ekaterina wrote: 
> find_vma may return NULL, that's why its return value 
> is usually checked for NULL. vma should be checked before dereferencing 
> 
> Found by Astra Linux on behalf of Linux Verification Center 
> (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. 
> 
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") 
> Signed-off-by: Esina Ekaterina <eesina@astralinux.ru> 
> --- 
> mm/hugetlb.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++-------------- 
> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) 

This is not the latest version of the code. What version are you 
targeting? 

I would claim that find_vma() can not return NULL in previous versions 
of the code which this patch seems to target. Why? This routine is 
called with mmap sema held and we know addr is part of the vma. 
-- 
Mike Kravetz   

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