[merged mm-hotfixes-stable] writeback-fix-dereferencing-null-mapping-host-on-writeback_page_template.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: writeback: fix dereferencing NULL mapping->host on writeback_page_template
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     writeback-fix-dereferencing-null-mapping-host-on-writeback_page_template.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Subject: writeback: fix dereferencing NULL mapping->host on writeback_page_template
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2023 19:36:13 -0400

When commit 19343b5bdd16 ("mm/page-writeback: introduce tracepoint for
wait_on_page_writeback()") repurposed the writeback_dirty_page trace event
as a template to create its new wait_on_page_writeback trace event, it
ended up opening a window to NULL pointer dereference crashes due to the
(infrequent) occurrence of a race where an access to a page in the
swap-cache happens concurrently with the moment this page is being written
to disk and the tracepoint is enabled:

    BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000040
    #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
    #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
    PGD 800000010ec0a067 P4D 800000010ec0a067 PUD 102353067 PMD 0
    Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
    CPU: 1 PID: 1320 Comm: shmem-worker Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.4.0-rc5+ #13
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS edk2-20230301gitf80f052277c8-1.fc37 03/01/2023
    RIP: 0010:trace_event_raw_event_writeback_folio_template+0x76/0xf0
    Code: 4d 85 e4 74 5c 49 8b 3c 24 e8 06 98 ee ff 48 89 c7 e8 9e 8b ee ff ba 20 00 00 00 48 89 ef 48 89 c6 e8 fe d4 1a 00 49 8b 04 24 <48> 8b 40 40 48 89 43 28 49 8b 45 20 48 89 e7 48 89 43 30 e8 a2 4d
    RSP: 0000:ffffaad580b6fb60 EFLAGS: 00010246
    RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff90e38035c01c RCX: 0000000000000000
    RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff90e38035c044
    RBP: ffff90e38035c024 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000006
    R10: ffff90e38035c02e R11: 0000000000000020 R12: ffff90e380bac000
    R13: ffffe3a7456d9200 R14: 0000000000001b81 R15: ffffe3a7456d9200
    FS:  00007f2e4e8a15c0(0000) GS:ffff90e3fbc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
    CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
    CR2: 0000000000000040 CR3: 00000001150c6003 CR4: 0000000000170ee0
    Call Trace:
     <TASK>
     ? __die+0x20/0x70
     ? page_fault_oops+0x76/0x170
     ? kernelmode_fixup_or_oops+0x84/0x110
     ? exc_page_fault+0x65/0x150
     ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
     ? trace_event_raw_event_writeback_folio_template+0x76/0xf0
     folio_wait_writeback+0x6b/0x80
     shmem_swapin_folio+0x24a/0x500
     ? filemap_get_entry+0xe3/0x140
     shmem_get_folio_gfp+0x36e/0x7c0
     ? find_busiest_group+0x43/0x1a0
     shmem_fault+0x76/0x2a0
     ? __update_load_avg_cfs_rq+0x281/0x2f0
     __do_fault+0x33/0x130
     do_read_fault+0x118/0x160
     do_pte_missing+0x1ed/0x2a0
     __handle_mm_fault+0x566/0x630
     handle_mm_fault+0x91/0x210
     do_user_addr_fault+0x22c/0x740
     exc_page_fault+0x65/0x150
     asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30

This problem arises from the fact that the repurposed writeback_dirty_page
trace event code was written assuming that every pointer to mapping
(struct address_space) would come from a file-mapped page-cache object,
thus mapping->host would always be populated, and that was a valid case
before commit 19343b5bdd16.  The swap-cache address space
(swapper_spaces), however, doesn't populate its ->host (struct inode)
pointer, thus leading to the crashes in the corner-case aforementioned.

commit 19343b5bdd16 ended up breaking the assignment of __entry->name and
__entry->ino for the wait_on_page_writeback tracepoint -- both dependent
on mapping->host carrying a pointer to a valid inode.  The assignment of
__entry->name was fixed by commit 68f23b89067f ("memcg: fix a crash in
wb_workfn when a device disappears"), and this commit fixes the remaining
case, for __entry->ino.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230606233613.1290819-1-aquini@redhat.com
Fixes: 19343b5bdd16 ("mm/page-writeback: introduce tracepoint for wait_on_page_writeback()")
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Cc: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 include/trace/events/writeback.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/include/trace/events/writeback.h~writeback-fix-dereferencing-null-mapping-host-on-writeback_page_template
+++ a/include/trace/events/writeback.h
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(writeback_folio_temp
 		strscpy_pad(__entry->name,
 			    bdi_dev_name(mapping ? inode_to_bdi(mapping->host) :
 					 NULL), 32);
-		__entry->ino = mapping ? mapping->host->i_ino : 0;
+		__entry->ino = (mapping && mapping->host) ? mapping->host->i_ino : 0;
 		__entry->index = folio->index;
 	),
 
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