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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/6] mm: khugepaged: fix radix tree node leak in shmem collapse error path
On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 01:22:24PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Fri 11-11-16 13:59:21, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 11:12:45AM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 10:53:52AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > > > On Mon 07-11-16 14:07:36, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > > > > The radix tree counts valid entries in each tree node. Entries stored
> > > > > in the tree cannot be removed by simpling storing NULL in the slot or
> > > > > the internal counters will be off and the node never gets freed again.
> > > > >
> > > > > When collapsing a shmem page fails, restore the holes that were filled
> > > > > with radix_tree_insert() with a proper radix tree deletion.
> > > > >
> > > > > Fixes: f3f0e1d2150b ("khugepaged: add support of collapse for tmpfs/shmem pages")
> > > > > Reported-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> > > > > ---
> > > > > mm/khugepaged.c | 3 ++-
> > > > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > > >
> > > > > diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
> > > > > index 728d7790dc2d..eac6f0580e26 100644
> > > > > --- a/mm/khugepaged.c
> > > > > +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
> > > > > @@ -1520,7 +1520,8 @@ static void collapse_shmem(struct mm_struct *mm,
> > > > > if (!nr_none)
> > > > > break;
> > > > > /* Put holes back where they were */
> > > > > - radix_tree_replace_slot(slot, NULL);
> > > > > + radix_tree_delete(&mapping->page_tree,
> > > > > + iter.index);
> > > >
> > > > Hum, but this is inside radix_tree_for_each_slot() iteration. And
> > > > radix_tree_delete() may end up freeing nodes resulting in invalidating
> > > > current slot pointer and the iteration code will do use-after-free.
> > >
> > > Good point, we need to do another tree lookup after the deletion.
> > >
> > > But there are other instances in the code, where we drop the lock
> > > temporarily and somebody else could delete the node from under us.
> > >
> > > In the main collapse path, I *think* this is prevented by the fact
> > > that when we drop the tree lock we still hold the page lock of the
> > > regular page that's in the tree while we isolate and unmap it, thus
> > > pin the node. Even so, it would seem a little hairy to rely on that.
> > >
> > > Kirill?
> >
> > [ sorry for delay ]
> >
> > Yes, we make sure that locked page still belong to the radix tree and fall
> > off if it's not. Locked page cannot be removed from radix-tree, so we
> > should be fine.
>
> Well, it cannot be removed from the radix tree but radix tree code is still
> free to collapse / expand the tree nodes as it sees fit (currently the only
> real case is when changing direct page pointer in the tree root to a node
> pointer or vice versa but still...). So code should not really assume that
> the node page is referenced from does not change once tree_lock is dropped.
> It leads to subtle bugs...

Hm. Okay.

What is the right way re-validate that slot is still valid? Do I need full
look up again? Can I pin node explicitly?

--
Kirill A. Shutemov

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