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authorLiviu Dudau <liviu@dudau.co.uk>2019-03-06 02:42:54 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-03-06 08:07:14 +0300
commit6ade20327dbb808882888ed8ccded71e93067cf9 (patch)
tree91f168af07d0bd54d5df81835ace554a64b1c0c1 /mm/vmalloc.c
parentabd02ac616e32d818a0478e68924beac8ba5e5d8 (diff)
downloadlinux-6ade20327dbb808882888ed8ccded71e93067cf9.tar.xz
mm/vmalloc.c: don't dereference possible NULL pointer in __vunmap()
find_vmap_area() can return a NULL pointer and we're going to dereference it without checking it first. Use the existing find_vm_area() function which does exactly what we want and checks for the NULL pointer. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181228171009.22269-1-liviu@dudau.co.uk Fixes: f3c01d2f3ade ("mm: vmalloc: avoid racy handling of debugobjects in vunmap") Signed-off-by: Liviu Dudau <liviu@dudau.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chintan Pandya <cpandya@codeaurora.org> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmalloc.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmalloc.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 871e41c55e23..806047d7fda3 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -1505,7 +1505,7 @@ static void __vunmap(const void *addr, int deallocate_pages)
addr))
return;
- area = find_vmap_area((unsigned long)addr)->vm;
+ area = find_vm_area(addr);
if (unlikely(!area)) {
WARN(1, KERN_ERR "Trying to vfree() nonexistent vm area (%p)\n",
addr);