The quilt patch titled Subject: mm: prevent page_frag_alloc() from corrupting the memory has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-prevent-page_frag_alloc-from-corrupting-the-memory.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
------------------------------------------------------ From: Maurizio Lombardi mlombard@redhat.com Subject: mm: prevent page_frag_alloc() from corrupting the memory Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 14:50:13 +0200
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: b63ae8ca096d ("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 | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-prevent-page_frag_alloc-from-corrupting-the-memory +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -5740,6 +5740,18 @@ refill: /* reset page count bias and offset to start of new frag */ nc->pagecnt_bias = PAGE_FRAG_CACHE_MAX_SIZE + 1; offset = size - fragsz; + if (unlikely(offset < 0)) { + /* + * The caller is trying to allocate a fragment + * with fragsz > PAGE_SIZE but the cache isn't big + * enough to satisfy the request, this may + * happen in low memory conditions. + * We don't release the cache page because + * it could make memory pressure worse + * so we simply return NULL here. + */ + return NULL; + } }
nc->pagecnt_bias--; _
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mlombard@redhat.com are