[PATCH] lib/maple_tree: fix swapped arguments in mas_safe_pivot() call

Josh Law hlcj1234567 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 6 12:08:20 PST 2026


From: Josh Law <objecting at objecting.org>

The call to mas_safe_pivot() in mas_wr_extend_null() has the pivot index
and maple type arguments swapped. The function signature expects
(mas, pivots, piv, type) but the call passes (mas, pivots, type, piv).

This causes the pivot index to be interpreted as a maple node type and
vice versa, leading to incorrect pivot lookups. In practice, this means
a null-extending store into a maple tree node can read the wrong pivot
value, potentially corrupting the range tracked by the maple state. For
a VMA maple tree, this could cause an incorrect vm_area_struct range to
be returned during operations like mmap or munmap, leading to silent
memory mapping corruption.

Every other mas_safe_pivot() call site in the file passes the arguments
in the correct (piv, type) order; this is the only one with them
reversed.

Signed-off-by: Josh Law <objecting at objecting.org>
---
 lib/maple_tree.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/maple_tree.c b/lib/maple_tree.c
index 5aa4c9500018..f82000821293 100644
--- a/lib/maple_tree.c
+++ b/lib/maple_tree.c
@@ -3279,7 +3279,7 @@ static inline void mas_extend_spanning_null(struct ma_wr_state *l_wr_mas,
 	    (r_mas->last < r_mas->max) &&
 	    !mas_slot_locked(r_mas, r_wr_mas->slots, r_mas->offset + 1)) {
 		r_mas->last = mas_safe_pivot(r_mas, r_wr_mas->pivots,
-					     r_wr_mas->type, r_mas->offset + 1);
+					     r_mas->offset + 1, r_wr_mas->type);
 		r_mas->offset++;
 	}
 }
-- 
2.43.0




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