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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm/folio-compact: fix potential NULL pointer in pagecache_get_page
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Understood, thanks for your explanation :)

在 2022/7/27 19:40, William Kucharski 写道:
> This isn't a NULL pointer dereference; returning &(0->page) is completely legal
> as was discussed regarding this exact code back in April:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YmfgqKcMmstgfz+0@casper.infradead.org/
>
>> On Jul 27, 2022, at 12:46 AM, Yongqiang Liu <liuyongqiang13@huawei.com> wrote:
>>
>> When __filemap_get_folio() failed and returned NULL, we would
>> get a NULL pointer dereference in pagecache_get_page.
>>
>> Fixes: 3f0c6a07fee6 ("mm/filemap: Add filemap_get_folio")
>> Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Liu <liuyongqiang13@huawei.com>
>> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.16
>> ---
>> mm/folio-compat.c | 4 +++-
>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/folio-compat.c b/mm/folio-compat.c
>> index 20bc15b57d93..7b21393480e0 100644
>> --- a/mm/folio-compat.c
>> +++ b/mm/folio-compat.c
>> @@ -124,7 +124,9 @@ struct page *pagecache_get_page(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t index,
>> struct folio *folio;
>>
>> folio = __filemap_get_folio(mapping, index, fgp_flags, gfp);
>> - if ((fgp_flags & FGP_HEAD) || !folio || xa_is_value(folio))
>> + if (!folio)
>> + return NULL;
>> + if ((fgp_flags & FGP_HEAD) || xa_is_value(folio))
>> return &folio->page;
>> return folio_file_page(folio, index);
>> }
>> --
>> 2.25.1
>>
>>
> .

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