[PATCH v2 2/3] powerpc/mm/hugetlb: Fix kernel crash if we fail to allocate page table caches

Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com
Tue May 28 15:36:25 AEST 2019


We only check for hugetlb allocations, because with hugetlb we do conditional
registration. For PGD/PUD/PMD levels we register them always in
pgtable_cache_init.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index 1de0f43a68e5..f55dc110f2ad 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -61,12 +61,17 @@ static int __hugepte_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, hugepd_t *hpdp,
 		num_hugepd = 1;
 	}
 
+	if (!cachep) {
+		WARN_ONCE(1, "No page table cache created for hugetlb tables");
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
+
 	new = kmem_cache_alloc(cachep, pgtable_gfp_flags(mm, GFP_KERNEL));
 
 	BUG_ON(pshift > HUGEPD_SHIFT_MASK);
 	BUG_ON((unsigned long)new & HUGEPD_SHIFT_MASK);
 
-	if (! new)
+	if (!new)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	/*
-- 
2.21.0



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