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Subject[PATCH] [65/99] ksm: fix NULL pointer dereference in scan_get_next_rmap_item()
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2.6.35-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>

commit 2b472611a32a72f4a118c069c2d62a1a3f087afd upstream.

Andrea Righi reported a case where an exiting task can race against
ksmd::scan_get_next_rmap_item (http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/1/742) easily
triggering a NULL pointer dereference in ksmd.

ksm_scan.mm_slot == &ksm_mm_head with only one registered mm

CPU 1 (__ksm_exit) CPU 2 (scan_get_next_rmap_item)
list_empty() is false
lock slot == &ksm_mm_head
list_del(slot->mm_list)
(list now empty)
unlock
lock
slot = list_entry(slot->mm_list.next)
(list is empty, so slot is still ksm_mm_head)
unlock
slot->mm == NULL ... Oops

Close this race by revalidating that the new slot is not simply the list
head again.

Andrea's test case:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>

#define BUFSIZE getpagesize()

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
void *ptr;

if (posix_memalign(&ptr, getpagesize(), BUFSIZE) < 0) {
perror("posix_memalign");
exit(1);
}
if (madvise(ptr, BUFSIZE, MADV_MERGEABLE) < 0) {
perror("madvise");
exit(1);
}
*(char *)NULL = 0;

return 0;
}

Reported-by: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com>
Tested-by: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
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@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

---
mm/ksm.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6.35.y/mm/ksm.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.35.y.orig/mm/ksm.c
+++ linux-2.6.35.y/mm/ksm.c
@@ -1272,6 +1272,12 @@ static struct rmap_item *scan_get_next_r
slot = list_entry(slot->mm_list.next, struct mm_slot, mm_list);
ksm_scan.mm_slot = slot;
spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
+ /*
+ * Although we tested list_empty() above, a racing __ksm_exit
+ * of the last mm on the list may have removed it since then.
+ */
+ if (slot == &ksm_mm_head)
+ return NULL;
next_mm:
ksm_scan.address = 0;
ksm_scan.rmap_list = &slot->rmap_list;

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