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[Roman Gushchin]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 07:12:21PM +0000, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 10:56:09AM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 10:47:35AM -0700, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 10:27 AM Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin at linux.dev> wrote:
> > > >
> > > [...]
> > > > +struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_from_obj(void *p)
> > > > +{
> > > > +       struct folio *folio;
> > > > +
> > > > +       if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
> > > > +               return NULL;
> > > > +
> > > > +       if (unlikely(is_vmalloc_addr(p)))
> > > > +               folio = page_folio(vmalloc_to_page(p));
> > > 
> > > Do we need to check for NULL from vmalloc_to_page(p)?
> > 
> > Idk, can it realistically return NULL after is_vmalloc_addr() returned true?
> > I would be surprised, but maybe I'm missing something.
> 
> is_vmalloc_addr() is simply checking the range and some buggy caller can
> provide an unmapped address within the range. Maybe VM_BUG_ON() should
> be good enough (though no strong opinion either way).

No strong opinion here as well, but I think we don't have to be too defensive
here. Actually we'll know anyway, unlikely a null pointer dereference will be
unnoticed. And it's not different to calling mem_cgroup_from_obj() with some
random invalid address now.

Thanks!