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
next 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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