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Subject[PATCH 4.14 288/496] mm/mempolicy.c: avoid use uninitialized preferred_node
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4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@huawei.com>

[ Upstream commit 8970a63e965b43288c4f5f40efbc2bbf80de7f16 ]

Alexander reported a use of uninitialized memory in __mpol_equal(),
which is caused by incorrect use of preferred_node.

When mempolicy in mode MPOL_PREFERRED with flags MPOL_F_LOCAL, it uses
numa_node_id() instead of preferred_node, however, __mpol_equal() uses
preferred_node without checking whether it is MPOL_F_LOCAL or not.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: slight comment tweak]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4ebee1c2-57f6-bcb8-0e2d-1833d1ee0bb7@huawei.com
Fixes: fc36b8d3d819 ("mempolicy: use MPOL_F_LOCAL to Indicate Preferred Local Policy")
Signed-off-by: Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@huawei.com>
Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Tested-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
mm/mempolicy.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2128,6 +2128,9 @@ bool __mpol_equal(struct mempolicy *a, s
case MPOL_INTERLEAVE:
return !!nodes_equal(a->v.nodes, b->v.nodes);
case MPOL_PREFERRED:
+ /* a's ->flags is the same as b's */
+ if (a->flags & MPOL_F_LOCAL)
+ return true;
return a->v.preferred_node == b->v.preferred_node;
default:
BUG();

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