mm/mempolicy.c: avoid use uninitialized preferred_node

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.

[[email protected]: slight comment tweak]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Fixes: fc36b8d3d819 ("mempolicy: use MPOL_F_LOCAL to Indicate Preferred Local Policy")
Signed-off-by: Yisheng Xie <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Alexander Potapenko <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index d879f1d8a44a..32cba0332787 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2124,6 +2124,9 @@ bool __mpol_equal(struct mempolicy *a, struct mempolicy *b)
 	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();