[PATCH] mm, swap: bounds check swap_info accesses to avoid NULL derefs

Daniel Jordan
2019-01-15T00:23:05Z

Dan Carpenter reports a potential NULL dereference in
get_swap_page_of_type:

Smatch complains that the NULL checks on "si" aren't consistent. This
seems like a real bug because we have not ensured that the type is
valid and so "si" can be NULL.

Add the missing check for NULL, taking care to use a read barrier to
ensure CPU1 observes CPU0's updates in the correct order:

CPU0 CPU1
alloc_swap_info() if (type >= nr_swapfiles)
swap_info[type] = p /* handle invalid entry */
smp_wmb() smp_rmb()
++nr_swapfiles p = swap_info[type]

Without smp_rmb, CPU1 might observe CPU0's write to nr_swapfiles before
CPU0's write to swap_info[type] and read NULL from swap_info[type].

Ying Huang noticed that other places don't order these reads properly.
Introduce swap_type_to_swap_info to encourage correct usage.

Use READ_ONCE and WRITE_ONCE to follow the Linux Kernel Memory Model
(see tools/memory-model/Documentation/explanation.txt).

This ordering need not be enforced in places where swap_lock is held
(e.g. si_swapinfo) because swap_lock serializes updates to nr_swapfiles
and the swap_info array.

This is a theoretical problem, no actual reports of it exist.

Fixes: ec8acf20afb8 ("swap: add per-partition lock for swapfile")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

---

I'd appreciate it if someone more familiar with memory barriers could
check this over. Thanks.

Probably no need for stable, this is all theoretical.

Against linux-mmotm tag v5.0-rc1-mmotm-2019-01-09-13-40

mm/swapfile.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index f0edf7244256..dad52fc67045 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -99,6 +99,15 @@ static atomic_t proc_poll_event = ATOMIC_INIT(0);

atomic_t nr_rotate_swap = ATOMIC_INIT(0);

+static struct swap_info_struct *swap_type_to_swap_info(int type)
+{
+ if (type >= READ_ONCE(nr_swapfiles))
+ return NULL;
+
+ smp_rmb(); /* Pairs with smp_wmb in alloc_swap_info. */
+ return READ_ONCE(swap_info[type]);
+}
+
static inline unsigned char swap_count(unsigned char ent)
{
return ent & ~SWAP_HAS_CACHE; /* may include COUNT_CONTINUED flag */
@@ -1045,12 +1054,14 @@ int get_swap_pages(int n_goal, swp_entry_t swp_entries[], int entry_size)
/* The only caller of this function is now suspend routine */
swp_entry_t get_swap_page_of_type(int type)
{
- struct swap_info_struct *si;
+ struct swap_info_struct *si = swap_type_to_swap_info(type);
pgoff_t offset;

- si = swap_info[type];
+ if (!si)
+ goto fail;
+
spin_lock(&si->lock);
- if (si && (si->flags & SWP_WRITEOK)) {
+ if (si->flags & SWP_WRITEOK) {
atomic_long_dec(&nr_swap_pages);
/* This is called for allocating swap entry, not cache */
offset = scan_swap_map(si, 1);
@@ -1061,6 +1072,7 @@ swp_entry_t get_swap_page_of_type(int type)
atomic_long_inc(&nr_swap_pages);
}
spin_unlock(&si->lock);
+fail:
return (swp_entry_t) {0};
}

@@ -1072,9 +1084,9 @@ static struct swap_info_struct *__swap_info_get(swp_entry_t entry)
if (!entry.val)
goto out;
type = swp_type(entry);
- if (type >= nr_swapfiles)
+ p = swap_type_to_swap_info(type);
+ if (!p)
goto bad_nofile;
- p = swap_info[type];
if (!(p->flags & SWP_USED))
goto bad_device;
offset = swp_offset(entry);
@@ -1212,9 +1224,9 @@ struct swap_info_struct *get_swap_device(swp_entry_t entry)
if (!entry.val)
goto out;
type = swp_type(entry);
- if (type >= nr_swapfiles)
+ si = swap_type_to_swap_info(type);
+ if (!si)
goto bad_nofile;
- si = swap_info[type];

preempt_disable();
if (!(si->flags & SWP_VALID))
@@ -1765,10 +1777,9 @@ int swap_type_of(dev_t device, sector_t offset, struct block_device **bdev_p)
sector_t swapdev_block(int type, pgoff_t offset)
{
struct block_device *bdev;
+ struct swap_info_struct *si = swap_type_to_swap_info(type);

- if ((unsigned int)type >= nr_swapfiles)
- return 0;
- if (!(swap_info[type]->flags & SWP_WRITEOK))
+ if (!si || !(si->flags & SWP_WRITEOK))
return 0;
return map_swap_entry(swp_entry(type, offset), &bdev);
}
@@ -2799,9 +2810,9 @@ static void *swap_start(struct seq_file *swap, loff_t *pos)
if (!l)
return SEQ_START_TOKEN;

- for (type = 0; type < nr_swapfiles; type++) {
+ for (type = 0; type < READ_ONCE(nr_swapfiles); type++) {
smp_rmb(); /* read nr_swapfiles before swap_info[type] */
- si = swap_info[type];
+ si = READ_ONCE(swap_info[type]);
if (!(si->flags & SWP_USED) || !si->swap_map)
continue;
if (!--l)
@@ -2821,9 +2832,9 @@ static void *swap_next(struct seq_file *swap, void *v, loff_t *pos)
else
type = si->type + 1;

- for (; type < nr_swapfiles; type++) {
+ for (; type < READ_ONCE(nr_swapfiles); type++) {
smp_rmb(); /* read nr_swapfiles before swap_info[type] */
- si = swap_info[type];
+ si = READ_ONCE(swap_info[type]);
if (!(si->flags & SWP_USED) || !si->swap_map)
continue;
++*pos;
@@ -2930,14 +2941,14 @@ static struct swap_info_struct *alloc_swap_info(void)
}
if (type >= nr_swapfiles) {
p->type = type;
- swap_info[type] = p;
+ WRITE_ONCE(swap_info[type], p);
/*
* Write swap_info[type] before nr_swapfiles, in case a
* racing procfs swap_start() or swap_next() is reading them.
* (We never shrink nr_swapfiles, we never free this entry.)
*/
smp_wmb();
- nr_swapfiles++;
+ WRITE_ONCE(nr_swapfiles, nr_swapfiles + 1);
} else {
kvfree(p);
p = swap_info[type];
--
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