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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>
Mon, 26 Sep 2022 19:14:34 +0000 (12:14 -0700)
commitcd8d94648e50965e3e957a725b9e0439330c60a3
treea72a209c803887d244c57b5c72d20a4d33b3419d
parentbbb9db73f0b8983c026c1be5e5d3f71582032c4f
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
Fixes: 3d326011f0a8 ("mm/net: Rename and move page fragment handling from net/ to mm/")
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>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c