tree f9877ba655ee733cbb3f15f35f2e6f0548bf36bc
parent 2d19309cf86883f634a4f8ec55a54bda87db19bf
author Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> 1476219078 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1476223590 -0700

radix-tree: 'slot' can be NULL in radix_tree_next_slot()

There are four cases I can see where we could end up with a NULL 'slot' in
radix_tree_next_slot().  Yet radix_tree_next_slot() never actually checks
whether 'slot' is NULL.  It just happens that for the cases where 'slot'
is NULL, some other combination of factors prevents us from dereferencing
it.

It would be very easy for someone to unwittingly change one of these
factors without realizing that we are implicitly depending on it to save
us from a NULL pointer dereference.

Add a comment documenting the things that allow 'slot' to be safely passed
as NULL to radix_tree_next_slot().

Here are details on the four cases:

1) radix_tree_iter_retry() via a non-tagged iteration like
radix_tree_for_each_slot().  In this case we currently aren't seeing a bug
because radix_tree_iter_retry() sets

	iter->next_index = iter->index;

which means that in in the else case in radix_tree_next_slot(), 'count' is
zero, so we skip over the while() loop and effectively just return NULL
without ever dereferencing 'slot'.

2) radix_tree_iter_retry() via tagged iteration like
radix_tree_for_each_tagged().  This case was giving us NULL pointer
dereferences in testing, and was fixed with this commit:

commit 3cb9185c6730 ("radix-tree: fix radix_tree_iter_retry() for tagged
iterators.")

This fix doesn't explicitly check for 'slot' being NULL, though, it works
around the NULL pointer dereference by instead zeroing iter->tags in
radix_tree_iter_retry(), which makes us bail out of the if() case in
radix_tree_next_slot() before we dereference 'slot'.

3) radix_tree_iter_next() via via a non-tagged iteration like
radix_tree_for_each_slot().  This currently happens in shmem_tag_pins()
and shmem_partial_swap_usage().

As with non-tagged iteration, 'count' in the else case of
radix_tree_next_slot() is zero, so we skip over the while() loop and
effectively just return NULL without ever dereferencing 'slot'.

4) radix_tree_iter_next() via tagged iteration like
radix_tree_for_each_tagged().  This happens in shmem_wait_for_pins().

radix_tree_iter_next() zeros out iter->tags, so we end up exiting
radix_tree_next_slot() here:

	if (flags & RADIX_TREE_ITER_TAGGED) {
		void *canon = slot;

		iter->tags >>= 1;
		if (unlikely(!iter->tags))
			return NULL;

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160815194237.25967-2-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>