mm: prevent page_frag_alloc() from corrupting the memory

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: b63ae8ca09 ("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>
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Maurizio Lombardi 2022-07-15 14:50:13 +02:00 committed by Andrew Morton
parent 70427f6e9e
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@ -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--;