From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f71.google.com (mail-wm0-f71.google.com [74.125.82.71]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFFC6280290 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 05:59:24 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-wm0-f71.google.com with SMTP id s63so23725567wms.7 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 02:59:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-wm0-x241.google.com (mail-wm0-x241.google.com. [2a00:1450:400c:c09::241]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r192si10313443wmd.135.2016.11.11.02.59.23 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 11 Nov 2016 02:59:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-wm0-x241.google.com with SMTP id u144so8594522wmu.0 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2016 02:59:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 13:59:21 +0300 From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] mm: khugepaged: fix radix tree node leak in shmem collapse error path Message-ID: <20161111105921.GC19382@node.shutemov.name> References: <20161107190741.3619-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org> <20161107190741.3619-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org> <20161108095352.GH32353@quack2.suse.cz> <20161108161245.GA4020@cmpxchg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161108161245.GA4020@cmpxchg.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jan Kara , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 11:12:45AM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote: > On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 10:53:52AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > On Mon 07-11-16 14:07:36, Johannes Weiner wrote: > > > The radix tree counts valid entries in each tree node. Entries stored > > > in the tree cannot be removed by simpling storing NULL in the slot or > > > the internal counters will be off and the node never gets freed again. > > > > > > When collapsing a shmem page fails, restore the holes that were filled > > > with radix_tree_insert() with a proper radix tree deletion. > > > > > > Fixes: f3f0e1d2150b ("khugepaged: add support of collapse for tmpfs/shmem pages") > > > Reported-by: Jan Kara > > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner > > > --- > > > mm/khugepaged.c | 3 ++- > > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > > > diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c > > > index 728d7790dc2d..eac6f0580e26 100644 > > > --- a/mm/khugepaged.c > > > +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c > > > @@ -1520,7 +1520,8 @@ static void collapse_shmem(struct mm_struct *mm, > > > if (!nr_none) > > > break; > > > /* Put holes back where they were */ > > > - radix_tree_replace_slot(slot, NULL); > > > + radix_tree_delete(&mapping->page_tree, > > > + iter.index); > > > > Hum, but this is inside radix_tree_for_each_slot() iteration. And > > radix_tree_delete() may end up freeing nodes resulting in invalidating > > current slot pointer and the iteration code will do use-after-free. > > Good point, we need to do another tree lookup after the deletion. > > But there are other instances in the code, where we drop the lock > temporarily and somebody else could delete the node from under us. > > In the main collapse path, I *think* this is prevented by the fact > that when we drop the tree lock we still hold the page lock of the > regular page that's in the tree while we isolate and unmap it, thus > pin the node. Even so, it would seem a little hairy to rely on that. > > Kirill? [ sorry for delay ] Yes, we make sure that locked page still belong to the radix tree and fall off if it's not. Locked page cannot be removed from radix-tree, so we should be fine. > I'll update this patch and prepend another fix to the series that > addresses the other two lock dropping issues. Feel free add my Acked-by. -- Kirill A. Shutemov -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org