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From: Ye Liu <ye.liu@linux.dev>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
	"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>,
	Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>,
	Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
	Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>,
	Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>,
	Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>, Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>,
	Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm: handle potential NULL return from anon_vma_name_reuse()
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:50:55 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260421085056.26033-1-ye.liu@linux.dev> (raw)

From: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>

The anon_vma_name_reuse() function may return NULL if memory allocation
fails in anon_vma_name_alloc(). Currently, callers dup_anon_vma_name()
and replace_anon_vma_name() do not check the return value, which could
lead to NULL pointer dereferences.

This patch adds proper error handling:
- In dup_anon_vma_name(), if anon_vma_name_reuse() returns NULL, emit a
  warning via WARN_ON_ONCE(1) since this is an unexpected condition.
- In replace_anon_vma_name(), return -ENOMEM to propagate the allocation
  failure to the caller.

These changes improve robustness against memory allocation failures.

Signed-off-by: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>
---
 include/linux/mm_inline.h | 12 +++++++++---
 mm/madvise.c              |  7 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm_inline.h b/include/linux/mm_inline.h
index a171070e15f0..9bbaf8287806 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_inline.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_inline.h
@@ -421,9 +421,15 @@ static inline void dup_anon_vma_name(struct vm_area_struct *orig_vma,
 				     struct vm_area_struct *new_vma)
 {
 	struct anon_vma_name *anon_name = anon_vma_name(orig_vma);
-
-	if (anon_name)
-		new_vma->anon_name = anon_vma_name_reuse(anon_name);
+	struct anon_vma_name *new_name;
+
+	if (anon_name) {
+		new_name = anon_vma_name_reuse(anon_name);
+		if (new_name)
+			new_vma->anon_name = new_name;
+		else
+			WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+	}
 }
 
 static inline void free_anon_vma_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index 69708e953cf5..ccb937a37e70 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ static int replace_anon_vma_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 				 struct anon_vma_name *anon_name)
 {
 	struct anon_vma_name *orig_name = anon_vma_name(vma);
+	struct anon_vma_name *new_name;
 
 	if (!anon_name) {
 		vma->anon_name = NULL;
@@ -128,7 +129,11 @@ static int replace_anon_vma_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	if (anon_vma_name_eq(orig_name, anon_name))
 		return 0;
 
-	vma->anon_name = anon_vma_name_reuse(anon_name);
+	new_name = anon_vma_name_reuse(anon_name);
+	if (!new_name)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	vma->anon_name = new_name;
 	anon_vma_name_put(orig_name);
 
 	return 0;
-- 
2.43.0



             reply	other threads:[~2026-04-21  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-21  8:50 Ye Liu [this message]
2026-04-21  8:55 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-21  9:10   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-04-21  9:08 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-04-21  9:25   ` Ye Liu

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