[PATCH] mm/mmap: Avoid dereferencing next on null in BUG_ON()

Liam Howlett liam.howlett at oracle.com
Thu May 19 08:04:50 PDT 2022


Check there is a next before checking the bounds.

Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett at oracle.com>
---
 mm/mmap.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 4279e2acd243..f1fc9c5c068b 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ inline int vma_expand(struct ma_state *mas, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	}
 
 	/* Not merging but overwriting any part of next is not handled. */
-	VM_BUG_ON(!remove_next && next != vma && end > next->vm_start);
+	VM_BUG_ON(next && !remove_next && next != vma && end > next->vm_start);
 	/* Only handles expanding */
 	VM_BUG_ON(vma->vm_start < start || vma->vm_end > end);
 
-- 
2.35.1



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