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mm: prevent page_frag_alloc() from corrupting the memory
authorMaurizio Lombardi <mlombard@redhat.com>
Fri, 15 Jul 2022 12:50:13 +0000 (14:50 +0200)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 26 Aug 2022 05:02:44 +0000 (22:02 -0700)
commit6ca31ef8cd708a5e823c40d69c1a2bda90cf037f
tree679bd8675521a3ced3618df8b84ea860ae23f519
parentf8d217f040b9580461739cdf35c8bca16aefb332
mm: prevent page_frag_alloc() from corrupting the memory

A number of drivers call page_frag_alloc() with a fragment's size >
PAGE_SIZE.

In low memory conditions, __page_frag_cache_refill() may fail the order
3 cache allocation and fall back to order 0; In this case, the cache
will be smaller than the fragment, causing memory corruptions.

Prevent this from happening by checking if the newly allocated cache is
large enough for the fragment; if not, the allocation will fail and
page_frag_alloc() will return NULL.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220715125013.247085-1-mlombard@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@fb.com>
Cc: Chen Lin <chen45464546@163.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c