Re: [PATCH v2] mm: page_alloc: move mlocked flag clearance into free_pages_prepare()

[Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 12:49:28PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2024, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> 
> > Syzbot reported a bad page state problem caused by a page
> > being freed using free_page() still having a mlocked flag at
> > free_pages_prepare() stage:
> > 
> >   BUG: Bad page state in process syz.0.15  pfn:1137bb
> >   page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff8881137bb870 pfn:0x1137bb
> >   flags: 0x400000000080000(mlocked|node=0|zone=1)
> >   raw: 0400000000080000 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
> >   raw: ffff8881137bb870 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
> >   page dumped because: PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE flag(s) set
> >   page_owner tracks the page as allocated
> >   page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask
> >   0x400dc0(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT|__GFP_ZERO), pid 3005, tgid
> >   3004 (syz.0.15), ts 61546  608067, free_ts 61390082085
> >    set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
> >    post_alloc_hook+0x1f3/0x230 mm/page_alloc.c:1537
> >    prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1545 [inline]
> >    get_page_from_freelist+0x3008/0x31f0 mm/page_alloc.c:3457
> >    __alloc_pages_noprof+0x292/0x7b0 mm/page_alloc.c:4733
> >    alloc_pages_mpol_noprof+0x3e8/0x630 mm/mempolicy.c:2265
> >    kvm_coalesced_mmio_init+0x1f/0xf0 virt/kvm/coalesced_mmio.c:99
> >    kvm_create_vm virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1235 [inline]
> >    kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vm virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:5500 [inline]
> >    kvm_dev_ioctl+0x13bb/0x2320 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:5542
> >    vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
> >    __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline]
> >    __se_sys_ioctl+0xf9/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:893
> >    do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
> >    do_syscall_64+0x69/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
> >    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
> >   page last free pid 951 tgid 951 stack trace:
> >    reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
> >    free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1108 [inline]
> >    free_unref_page+0xcb1/0xf00 mm/page_alloc.c:2638
> >    vfree+0x181/0x2e0 mm/vmalloc.c:3361
> >    delayed_vfree_work+0x56/0x80 mm/vmalloc.c:3282
> >    process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3229 [inline]
> >    process_scheduled_works+0xa5c/0x17a0 kernel/workqueue.c:3310
> >    worker_thread+0xa2b/0xf70 kernel/workqueue.c:3391
> >    kthread+0x2df/0x370 kernel/kthread.c:389
> >    ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
> >    ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244
> > 
> > A reproducer is available here:
> > https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=1437939f980000
> > 
> > The problem was originally introduced by
> > commit b109b87050df ("mm/munlock: replace clear_page_mlock() by final
> > clearance"): it was handling focused on handling pagecache
> > and anonymous memory and wasn't suitable for lower level
> > get_page()/free_page() API's used for example by KVM, as with
> > this reproducer.
> > 
> > Fix it by moving the mlocked flag clearance down to
> > free_page_prepare().
> > 
> > The bug itself if fairly old and harmless (aside from generating these
> > warnings).
> > 
> > Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/report.txt?x=169a47d0580000
> > Fixes: b109b87050df ("mm/munlock: replace clear_page_mlock() by final clearance")
> > Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
> > Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> > Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> 
> Thanks Roman - I'd been preparing a similar patch, so agree that this is
> the right fix.

Thank you!

> I don't think there's any need to change your text, but
> let me remind us that any "Bad page" report stops that page from being
> allocated again (because it's in an undefined, potentially dangerous
> state): so does amount to a small memory leak even if otherwise harmless.

It looks like I need to post v3 as soon as I get a publicly available
syzkaller report, so I'll add this to the commit log.

Thanks!