From: "Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga" <azpijr@gmail.com>
To: Ye Liu <ye.liu@linux.dev>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm/vmalloc: reject NULL pages in remap_vmalloc_range_partial
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:04:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ad048090-431a-4343-a08c-d8e139d52005@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261029-vmalloc_remap-v2-2-c4705cbf26c2@linux.dev>
On 10/29/26 10:19 AM, Ye Liu wrote:
> From: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>
>
> remap_vmalloc_range_partial() passes vmalloc_to_page()'s result to
> vm_insert_page() unchecked, oopsing via page_folio() on a NULL page.
> The NULL case cannot happen today because VM_USERMAP areas keep every
> page mapped, but nothing enforces that invariant. Warn once and fail
> the mapping with -EINVAL instead of oopsing if it is ever broken.
>
> Suggested-by: Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga <azpijr@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>
> ---
> mm/vmalloc.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
> index a888eca016a8..dabef40ea88b 100644
> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> @@ -4906,6 +4906,9 @@ int remap_vmalloc_range_partial(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long uaddr,
> struct page *page = vmalloc_to_page(kaddr);
> int ret;
>
> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!page))
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
thanks for picking this up :)
Reviewed-by: Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga <azpijr@gmail.com>
--
cheers,
jose a. p-a
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-29 12:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-29 9:19 [PATCH v2 0/2] mm/vmalloc: harden remap_vmalloc_range_partial against NULL pages Ye Liu
2026-10-29 9:19 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] mm/vmalloc: drop VM_DMA_COHERENT from remap_vmalloc_range_partial Ye Liu
2026-10-29 11:57 ` Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga
2026-10-29 9:19 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] mm/vmalloc: reject NULL pages in remap_vmalloc_range_partial Ye Liu
2026-10-29 12:04 ` Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga [this message]
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