Patch "slub/memcg: cure the brainless abuse of sysfs attributes" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    slub/memcg: cure the brainless abuse of sysfs attributes

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     slub-memcg-cure-the-brainless-abuse-of-sysfs-attributes.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 478fe3037b2278d276d4cd9cd0ab06c4cb2e9b32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 14:46:25 -0700
Subject: slub/memcg: cure the brainless abuse of sysfs attributes

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

commit 478fe3037b2278d276d4cd9cd0ab06c4cb2e9b32 upstream.

memcg_propagate_slab_attrs() abuses the sysfs attribute file functions
to propagate settings from the root kmem_cache to a newly created
kmem_cache.  It does that with:

     attr->show(root, buf);
     attr->store(new, buf, strlen(bug);

Aside of being a lazy and absurd hackery this is broken because it does
not check the return value of the show() function.

Some of the show() functions return 0 w/o touching the buffer.  That
means in such a case the store function is called with the stale content
of the previous show().  That causes nonsense like invoking
kmem_cache_shrink() on a newly created kmem_cache.  In the worst case it
would cause handing in an uninitialized buffer.

This should be rewritten proper by adding a propagate() callback to
those slub_attributes which must be propagated and avoid that insane
conversion to and from ASCII, but that's too large for a hot fix.

Check at least the return value of the show() function, so calling
store() with stale content is prevented.

Steven said:
 "It can cause a deadlock with get_online_cpus() that has been uncovered
  by recent cpu hotplug and lockdep changes that Thomas and Peter have
  been doing.

     Possible unsafe locking scenario:

           CPU0                    CPU1
           ----                    ----
      lock(cpu_hotplug.lock);
                                   lock(slab_mutex);
                                   lock(cpu_hotplug.lock);
      lock(slab_mutex);

     *** DEADLOCK ***"

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1705201244540.2255@nanos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.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@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/slub.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -5452,6 +5452,7 @@ static void memcg_propagate_slab_attrs(s
 		char mbuf[64];
 		char *buf;
 		struct slab_attribute *attr = to_slab_attr(slab_attrs[i]);
+		ssize_t len;
 
 		if (!attr || !attr->store || !attr->show)
 			continue;
@@ -5476,8 +5477,9 @@ static void memcg_propagate_slab_attrs(s
 			buf = buffer;
 		}
 
-		attr->show(root_cache, buf);
-		attr->store(s, buf, strlen(buf));
+		len = attr->show(root_cache, buf);
+		if (len > 0)
+			attr->store(s, buf, len);
 	}
 
 	if (buffer)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tglx@linutronix.de are

queue-4.9/x86-pat-fix-xorg-regression-on-cpus-that-don-t-support-pat.patch
queue-4.9/x86-mce-export-memory_error.patch
queue-4.9/x86-boot-use-cross_compile-prefix-for-readelf.patch
queue-4.9/slub-memcg-cure-the-brainless-abuse-of-sysfs-attributes.patch
queue-4.9/acpi-nfit-fix-the-memory-error-check-in-nfit_handle_mce.patch