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SubjectRe: [PATCH -next] hugetlb_cgroup: fix illegal access to memory
On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 03:39:20PM -0700, Mina Almasry wrote:
> This appears to be a mistake in commit faced7e0806cf ("mm: hugetlb
> controller for cgroups v2"). Essentially that commit does
> a hugetlb_cgroup_from_counter assuming that page_counter_try_charge has
> initialized counter, but if page_counter_try_charge has failed then it
> seems it does not initialize counter, so
> hugetlb_cgroup_from_counter(counter) ends up pointing to random memory,
> causing kasan to complain.
>
> Solution, simply use h_cg, instead of
> hugetlb_cgroup_from_counter(counter), since that is a reference to the
> hugetlb_cgroup anyway. After this change kasan ceases to complain.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
> Reported-by: syzbot+cac0c4e204952cf449b1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Fixes: commit faced7e0806cf ("mm: hugetlb controller for cgroups v2")
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Cc: mike.kravetz@oracle.com
> Cc: rientjes@google.com

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Thanks.

--
tejun

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