From 726b7bbeafd4e0219c37b74673d368b21ff3d039 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mina Almasry Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 19:17:22 -0700 Subject: hugetlb_cgroup: fix illegal access to memory This appears to be a mistake in commit faced7e0806cf ("mm: hugetlb controller for cgroups v2"). Essentially that commit does a hugetlb_cgroup_from_counter assuming that page_counter_try_charge has initialized counter. But if that has failed then it seems will not initialize counter, so hugetlb_cgroup_from_counter(counter) ends up pointing to random memory, causing kasan to complain. The solution is to simply use 'h_cg', instead of hugetlb_cgroup_from_counter(counter), since that is a reference to the hugetlb_cgroup anyway. After this change kasan ceases to complain. Fixes: faced7e0806cf ("mm: hugetlb controller for cgroups v2") Reported-by: syzbot+cac0c4e204952cf449b1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: Giuseppe Scrivano Acked-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: David Rientjes Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200313223920.124230-1-almasrymina@google.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c b/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c index e434b05416c6..5280bcf459af 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c @@ -240,8 +240,7 @@ again: if (!page_counter_try_charge(&h_cg->hugepage[idx], nr_pages, &counter)) { ret = -ENOMEM; - hugetlb_event(hugetlb_cgroup_from_counter(counter, idx), idx, - HUGETLB_MAX); + hugetlb_event(h_cg, idx, HUGETLB_MAX); } css_put(&h_cg->css); done: -- cgit