mm/page_alloc.c: avoid potential NULL pointer dereference
ac.preferred_zoneref->zone passed to alloc_flags_nofragment() can be NULL.
'zone' pointer unconditionally derefernced in alloc_flags_nofragment().
Bail out on NULL zone to avoid potential crash. Currently we don't see
any crashes only because alloc_flags_nofragment() has another bug which
allows compiler to optimize away all accesses to 'zone'.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190423120806.3503-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Fixes: 6bb154504f8b ("mm, page_alloc: spread allocations across zones before introducing fragmentation")
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index d167c48..9992ca7 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3432,6 +3432,9 @@ alloc_flags_nofragment(struct zone *zone, gfp_t gfp_mask)
alloc_flags |= ALLOC_KSWAPD;
#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32
+ if (!zone)
+ return alloc_flags;
+
if (zone_idx(zone) != ZONE_NORMAL)
goto out;