[PATCH 2/6] mempolicy: remove all mempolicy sharing

kosaki.motohiro
2012-06-11T09:18:25Z

From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>

Dave Jones' system call fuzz testing tool "trinity" triggered the following
bug error with slab debugging enabled

[ 7613.229315] =============================================================================
[ 7613.229955] BUG numa_policy (Not tainted): Poison overwritten
[ 7613.230560] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ 7613.230560]
[ 7613.231834] INFO: 0xffff880146498250-0xffff880146498250. First byte 0x6a instead of 0x6b
[ 7613.232518] INFO: Allocated in mpol_new+0xa3/0x140 age=46310 cpu=6 pid=32154
[ 7613.233188] __slab_alloc+0x3d3/0x445
[ 7613.233877] kmem_cache_alloc+0x29d/0x2b0
[ 7613.234564] mpol_new+0xa3/0x140
[ 7613.235236] sys_mbind+0x142/0x620
[ 7613.235929] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ 7613.236640] INFO: Freed in __mpol_put+0x27/0x30 age=46268 cpu=6 pid=32154
[ 7613.237354] __slab_free+0x2e/0x1de
[ 7613.238080] kmem_cache_free+0x25a/0x260
[ 7613.238799] __mpol_put+0x27/0x30
[ 7613.239515] remove_vma+0x68/0x90
[ 7613.240223] exit_mmap+0x118/0x140
[ 7613.240939] mmput+0x73/0x110
[ 7613.241651] exit_mm+0x108/0x130
[ 7613.242367] do_exit+0x162/0xb90
[ 7613.243074] do_group_exit+0x4f/0xc0
[ 7613.243790] sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20
[ 7613.244507] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ 7613.245212] INFO: Slab 0xffffea0005192600 objects=27 used=27 fp=0x (null) flags=0x20000000004080
[ 7613.246000] INFO: Object 0xffff880146498250 @offset=592 fp=0xffff88014649b9d0

The problem was created by a reference count imbalance. Example, In following case,
mbind(addr, len) try to replace mempolicies of vma1 and vma2 and then they will
be share the same mempolicy, and the new mempolicy has MPOL_F_SHARED flag.

+-------------------+-------------------+
| vma1 | vma2(shmem) |
+-------------------+-------------------+
| |
addr addr+len

Look at alloc_pages_vma(), it uses get_vma_policy() and mpol_cond_put() pair
for maintaining mempolicy refcount. The current rule is, get_vma_policy() does
NOT increase a refcount if the policy is not attached shmem vma and mpol_cond_put()
DOES decrease a refcount if mpol has MPOL_F_SHARED.

In above case, vma1 is not shmem vma and vma->policy has MPOL_F_SHARED! then,
get_vma_policy() doesn't increase a refcount and mpol_cond_put() decrease a
refcount whenever alloc_page_vma() is called.

The bug was introduced by commit 52cd3b0740 (mempolicy: rework mempolicy Reference
Counting) at 4 years ago.

More unfortunately mempolicy has one another serious broken. Currently,
mempolicy rebind logic (it is called from cpuset rebinding) ignore a refcount
of mempolicy and override it forcibly. Thus, any mempolicy sharing may
cause mempolicy corruption. The bug was introduced by commit 68860ec10b
(cpusets: automatic numa mempolicy rebinding) at 7 years ago.

To disable policy sharing solves user visible breakage and this patch does it.
Maybe, we need to rewrite MPOL_F_SHARED and mempolicy rebinding code and aim
to proper cow logic eventually, but I think this is good first step.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
---
mm/mempolicy.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
1 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 0a60def..9505cb9 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -607,24 +607,38 @@ check_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
return first;
}

-/* Apply policy to a single VMA */
-static int policy_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct mempolicy *new)
+/*
+ * Apply policy to a single VMA
+ * This must be called with the mmap_sem held for writing.
+ */
+static int policy_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct mempolicy *pol)
{
- int err = 0;
- struct mempolicy *old = vma->vm_policy;
+ int err;
+ struct mempolicy *old;
+ struct mempolicy *new;

pr_debug("vma %lx-%lx/%lx vm_ops %p vm_file %p set_policy %p\n",
vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end, vma->vm_pgoff,
vma->vm_ops, vma->vm_file,
vma->vm_ops ? vma->vm_ops->set_policy : NULL);

- if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->set_policy)
+ new = mpol_dup(pol);
+ if (IS_ERR(new))
+ return PTR_ERR(new);
+
+ if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->set_policy) {
err = vma->vm_ops->set_policy(vma, new);
- if (!err) {
- mpol_get(new);
- vma->vm_policy = new;
- mpol_put(old);
+ if (err)
+ goto err_out;
}
+
+ old = vma->vm_policy;
+ vma->vm_policy = new; /* protected by mmap_sem */
+ mpol_put(old);
+
+ return 0;
+ err_out:
+ mpol_put(new);
return err;
}

@@ -2147,15 +2161,24 @@ static void sp_delete(struct shared_policy *sp, struct sp_node *n)
static struct sp_node *sp_alloc(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
struct mempolicy *pol)
{
- struct sp_node *n = kmem_cache_alloc(sn_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
+ struct sp_node *n;
+ struct mempolicy *newpol;

+ n = kmem_cache_alloc(sn_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!n)
return NULL;
+
+ newpol = mpol_dup(pol);
+ if (IS_ERR(newpol)) {
+ kmem_cache_free(sn_cache, n);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+ newpol->flags |= MPOL_F_SHARED;
+
n->start = start;
n->end = end;
- mpol_get(pol);
- pol->flags |= MPOL_F_SHARED; /* for unref */
- n->policy = pol;
+ n->policy = newpol;
+
return n;
}

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