Re: slub freelist issue / BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 000000003ffe0018

Vlastimil Babka
2020-06-05T16:55:34Z

On 6/5/20 5:44 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 04:44:51PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
>> On 2020-06-05 16:08, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> > On 6/5/20 3:12 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 2:48 PM Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > On 2020-06-05 11:36, Vegard Nossum wrote:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > On 2020-06-05 11:11, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> > > > > > So, with Kees' patch reverted, booting with slub_debug=F (or even more
>> > > > > > specific slub_debug=F,ftrace_event_field) also hits this bug below. I
>> > > > > > wanted to bisect it, but v5.7 was also bad, and also v5.6. Didn't try
>> > > > > > further in history. So it's not new at all, and likely very specific to
>> > > > > > your config+QEMU? (and related to the ACPI error messages that precede
>> > > > > > it?).
>> > [...]
>> > [ 0.140408] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> > [ 0.140837] cache_from_obj: Wrong slab cache. Acpi-Namespace but object is from kmalloc-64
>> > [ 0.141406] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at mm/slab.h:524 kmem_cache_free+0x1d3/0x250
>
> Ah yes! Good. I had improved this check recently too, and I was worried
> the freelist pointer patch was somehow blocking it, but I see now that
> the failing config didn't have CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED=y. Once
> SLAB_CONSISTENCY_CHECKS was enabled ("slub_debug=F"), it started
> tripping. Whew.
>
> I wonder if that entire test block should just be removed from
> cache_from_obj():
>
> if (!memcg_kmem_enabled() &&
> !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED) &&
> !unlikely(s->flags & SLAB_CONSISTENCY_CHECKS))
> return s;
>
> and make this test unconditional? It's mostly only called during free(),
> and shouldn't be too expensive to be made unconditional. Hmm.

Hmm I have a different idea. The whole cache_from_obj() was added because of
kmemcg (commit b9ce5ef49f00d) where per-memcg cache can be different from the
root one. And I just realized this usecase can go away with Roman's series [1].
But cache_from_obj() also kept the original SLUB consistency check case, and you
added the freelist hardening case. If kmemcg use case went away it would be nice
to avoid the virt_to_cache() and check completely again, unless in debugging or
hardened kernel.

Furthermore, the original SLUB debugging case was an unconditional pr_err() plus
WARN_ON_ONCE(1), which was kept by commit b9ce5ef49f00d. With freelist
hardening this all changed to WARN_ONCE. So the second and later cases are not
reported at all for hardening and also not for explicitly enabled debugging like
in this case, which is IMHO not ideal.

So I propose the following - the freelist hardening case keeps the WARN_ONCE,
but also a one-line pr_err() for each case so they are not silent. The SLUB
debugging case is always a full warning, and printing the tracking info if
enabled and available. Pure kmemcg case does virt_to_cache() for now (until
hopefully removed by Roman's series) but no checking at all. Would that work for
everyone?

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/d7cdecbc-db24-8ced-1a86-6f4534613763@suse.cz/

----8<----
diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h
index 815e4e9a94cd..1182ca2cb11a 100644
--- a/mm/slab.h
+++ b/mm/slab.h
@@ -275,6 +275,14 @@ static inline int cache_vmstat_idx(struct kmem_cache *s)
NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE : NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE;
}

+#ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG
+void slab_print_tracking(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object);
+#else
+static inline void slab_print_tracking(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM

/* List of all root caches. */
@@ -520,9 +528,18 @@ static inline struct kmem_cache *cache_from_obj(struct kmem_cache *s, void *x)
return s;

cachep = virt_to_cache(x);
- WARN_ONCE(cachep && !slab_equal_or_root(cachep, s),
- "%s: Wrong slab cache. %s but object is from %s\n",
- __func__, s->name, cachep->name);
+ if (unlikely(s->flags & SLAB_CONSISTENCY_CHECKS)) {
+ if (WARN(cachep && !slab_equal_or_root(cachep, s),
+ "%s: Wrong slab cache. %s but object is from %s\n",
+ __func__, s->name, cachep->name))
+ slab_print_tracking(cachep, x);
+ } else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED)) {
+ if (unlikely(cachep && !slab_equal_or_root(cachep, s))) {
+ pr_err("%s: Wrong slab cache. %s but object is from %s\n",
+ __func__, s->name, cachep->name);
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+ }
+ }
return cachep;
}

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index d4a9a097da50..ff2d817c5a94 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -634,7 +634,7 @@ static void print_track(const char *s, struct track *t, unsigned long pr_time)
#endif
}

-static void print_tracking(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object)
+void slab_print_tracking(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object)
{
unsigned long pr_time = jiffies;
if (!(s->flags & SLAB_STORE_USER))
@@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ static void print_trailer(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page, u8 *p)
unsigned int off; /* Offset of last byte */
u8 *addr = page_address(page);

- print_tracking(s, p);
+ slab_print_tracking(s, p);

print_page_info(page);

@@ -3858,7 +3858,7 @@ static void list_slab_objects(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page,

if (!test_bit(slab_index(p, s, addr), map)) {
pr_err("INFO: Object 0x%p @offset=%tu\n", p, p - addr);
- print_tracking(s, p);
+ slab_print_tracking(s, p);
}
}
slab_unlock(page);