mm/hugetlb: fix NULL-pointer dereference on 5-level paging machine

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commit f4f0a3d85b upstream.

I made a mistake during converting hugetlb code to 5-level paging: in
huge_pte_alloc() we have to use p4d_alloc(), not p4d_offset().

Otherwise it leads to crash -- NULL-pointer dereference in pud_alloc()
if p4d table is not yet allocated.

It only can happen in 5-level paging mode.  In 4-level paging mode
p4d_offset() always returns pgd, so we are fine.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171122121921.64822-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Fixes: c2febafc67 ("mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging")
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Kirill A. Shutemov 2017-11-29 16:11:30 -08:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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