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slab: alien caches must not be initialized if the allocation of the alien cache failed
authorChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Tue, 8 Jan 2019 23:23:00 +0000 (15:23 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 9 Jan 2019 01:15:11 +0000 (17:15 -0800)
commita26aeb234c6703ba3a3c1fe9b02a095e3010fa22
tree2f951b3f6daa70b8c3f2c6371b5c2c62d6bd6455
parent45b35329edbe1ebd797bed770387c9fdc858a2a4
slab: alien caches must not be initialized if the allocation of the alien cache failed

Callers of __alloc_alien() check for NULL.  We must do the same check in
__alloc_alien_cache to avoid NULL pointer dereferences on allocation
failures.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/010001680f42f192-82b4e12e-1565-4ee0-ae1f-1e98974906aa-000000@email.amazonses.com
Fixes: 43a830d6b5a93 ("slab: use the lock on alien_cache, instead of the lock on array_cache")
Fixes: d67a3334b2d3d ("Slab: introduce alloc_alien")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+d6ed4ec679652b4fd4e4@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/slab.c