[PATCH v2] memcg: make it work on sparse non-0-node systems

Jiri Slaby
2019-05-17T11:42:09Z

We have a single node system with node 0 disabled:
Scanning NUMA topology in Northbridge 24
Number of physical nodes 2
Skipping disabled node 0
Node 1 MemBase 0000000000000000 Limit 00000000fbff0000
NODE_DATA(1) allocated [mem 0xfbfda000-0xfbfeffff]

This causes crashes in memcg when system boots:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
#PF error: [normal kernel read fault]
...
RIP: 0010:list_lru_add+0x94/0x170
...
Call Trace:
d_lru_add+0x44/0x50
dput.part.34+0xfc/0x110
__fput+0x108/0x230
task_work_run+0x9f/0xc0
exit_to_usermode_loop+0xf5/0x100

It is reproducible as far as 4.12. I did not try older kernels. You have
to have a new enough systemd, e.g. 241 (the reason is unknown -- was not
investigated). Cannot be reproduced with systemd 234.

The system crashes because the size of lru array is never updated in
memcg_update_all_list_lrus and the reads are past the zero-sized array,
causing dereferences of random memory.

The root cause are list_lru_memcg_aware checks in the list_lru code.
The test in list_lru_memcg_aware is broken: it assumes node 0 is always
present, but it is not true on some systems as can be seen above.

So fix this by avoiding checks on node 0. Remember the memcg-awareness
by a bool flag in struct list_lru.

[v2] use the idea proposed by Vladimir -- the bool flag.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: <cgroups@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
include/linux/list_lru.h | 1 +
mm/list_lru.c | 8 +++-----
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/list_lru.h b/include/linux/list_lru.h
index aa5efd9351eb..d5ceb2839a2d 100644
--- a/include/linux/list_lru.h
+++ b/include/linux/list_lru.h
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ struct list_lru {
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
struct list_head list;
int shrinker_id;
+ bool memcg_aware;
#endif
};

diff --git a/mm/list_lru.c b/mm/list_lru.c
index 0730bf8ff39f..d3b538146efd 100644
--- a/mm/list_lru.c
+++ b/mm/list_lru.c
@@ -37,11 +37,7 @@ static int lru_shrinker_id(struct list_lru *lru)

static inline bool list_lru_memcg_aware(struct list_lru *lru)
{
- /*
- * This needs node 0 to be always present, even
- * in the systems supporting sparse numa ids.
- */
- return !!lru->node[0].memcg_lrus;
+ return lru->memcg_aware;
}

static inline struct list_lru_one *
@@ -451,6 +447,8 @@ static int memcg_init_list_lru(struct list_lru *lru, bool memcg_aware)
{
int i;

+ lru->memcg_aware = memcg_aware;
+
if (!memcg_aware)
return 0;

--
2.21.0