[merged mm-hotfixes-stable] mm-cachestat-fix-folio-read-after-free-in-cache-walk.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-hotfixes-stable] mm-cachestat-fix-folio-read-after-free-in-cache-walk.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm: cachestat: fix folio read-after-free in cache walk
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-cachestat-fix-folio-read-after-free-in-cache-walk.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: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Subject: mm: cachestat: fix folio read-after-free in cache walk
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 19:01:21 -0800

In cachestat, we access the folio from the page cache's xarray to compute
its page offset, and check for its dirty and writeback flags.  However, we
do not hold a reference to the folio before performing these actions,
which means the folio can concurrently be released and reused as another
folio/page/slab.

Get around this altogether by just using xarray's existing machinery for
the folio page offsets and dirty/writeback states.

This changes behavior for tmpfs files to now always report zeroes in their
dirty and writeback counters.  This is okay as tmpfs doesn't follow
conventional writeback cache behavior: its pages get "cleaned" during
swapout, after which they're no longer resident etc.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240220153409.GA216065@cmpxchg.org
Fixes: cf264e1329fb ("cachestat: implement cachestat syscall")
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Tested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[6.4+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/filemap.c |   51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/filemap.c~mm-cachestat-fix-folio-read-after-free-in-cache-walk
+++ a/mm/filemap.c
@@ -4111,28 +4111,40 @@ static void filemap_cachestat(struct add
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	xas_for_each(&xas, folio, last_index) {
+		int order;
 		unsigned long nr_pages;
 		pgoff_t folio_first_index, folio_last_index;
 
+		/*
+		 * Don't deref the folio. It is not pinned, and might
+		 * get freed (and reused) underneath us.
+		 *
+		 * We *could* pin it, but that would be expensive for
+		 * what should be a fast and lightweight syscall.
+		 *
+		 * Instead, derive all information of interest from
+		 * the rcu-protected xarray.
+		 */
+
 		if (xas_retry(&xas, folio))
 			continue;
 
+		order = xa_get_order(xas.xa, xas.xa_index);
+		nr_pages = 1 << order;
+		folio_first_index = round_down(xas.xa_index, 1 << order);
+		folio_last_index = folio_first_index + nr_pages - 1;
+
+		/* Folios might straddle the range boundaries, only count covered pages */
+		if (folio_first_index < first_index)
+			nr_pages -= first_index - folio_first_index;
+
+		if (folio_last_index > last_index)
+			nr_pages -= folio_last_index - last_index;
+
 		if (xa_is_value(folio)) {
 			/* page is evicted */
 			void *shadow = (void *)folio;
 			bool workingset; /* not used */
-			int order = xa_get_order(xas.xa, xas.xa_index);
-
-			nr_pages = 1 << order;
-			folio_first_index = round_down(xas.xa_index, 1 << order);
-			folio_last_index = folio_first_index + nr_pages - 1;
-
-			/* Folios might straddle the range boundaries, only count covered pages */
-			if (folio_first_index < first_index)
-				nr_pages -= first_index - folio_first_index;
-
-			if (folio_last_index > last_index)
-				nr_pages -= folio_last_index - last_index;
 
 			cs->nr_evicted += nr_pages;
 
@@ -4150,24 +4162,13 @@ static void filemap_cachestat(struct add
 			goto resched;
 		}
 
-		nr_pages = folio_nr_pages(folio);
-		folio_first_index = folio_pgoff(folio);
-		folio_last_index = folio_first_index + nr_pages - 1;
-
-		/* Folios might straddle the range boundaries, only count covered pages */
-		if (folio_first_index < first_index)
-			nr_pages -= first_index - folio_first_index;
-
-		if (folio_last_index > last_index)
-			nr_pages -= folio_last_index - last_index;
-
 		/* page is in cache */
 		cs->nr_cache += nr_pages;
 
-		if (folio_test_dirty(folio))
+		if (xas_get_mark(&xas, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY))
 			cs->nr_dirty += nr_pages;
 
-		if (folio_test_writeback(folio))
+		if (xas_get_mark(&xas, PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK))
 			cs->nr_writeback += nr_pages;
 
 resched:
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from nphamcs@gmail.com are