[PATCH 4.19 253/421] selinux: use __GFP_NOWARN with GFP_NOWAIT in the AVC

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-07-19T16:21:52Z

From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit 648f2c6100cfa18e7dfe43bc0b9c3b73560d623c ]

In the field, we have seen lots of allocation failure from the call
path below.

06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W Binder : 31542_2: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0x800(GFP_NOWAIT), nodemask=(null),cpuset=background,mems_allowed=0
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06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W Call trace:
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : dump_backtrace.cfi_jt+0x0/0x8
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : dump_stack+0xc8/0x14c
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : warn_alloc+0x158/0x1c8
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x9d8/0xb80
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1c4/0x430
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : allocate_slab+0xb4/0x390
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : ___slab_alloc+0x12c/0x3a4
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : kmem_cache_alloc+0x358/0x5e4
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : avc_alloc_node+0x30/0x184
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : avc_update_node+0x54/0x4f0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : avc_has_extended_perms+0x1a4/0x460
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : selinux_file_ioctl+0x320/0x3d0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xec/0x1fc
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : el0_svc_common+0xc0/0x24c
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : el0_svc+0x28/0x88
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : el0_sync_handler+0x8c/0xf0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : el0_sync+0x1a4/0x1c0
..
..
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W SLUB : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W cache : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W node 0 : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W SLUB : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W cache : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W node 0 : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W SLUB : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W cache : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W node 0 : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W SLUB : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W cache : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W node 0 : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W SLUB : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W cache : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W node 0 : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W SLUB : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W cache : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W node 0 : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W SLUB : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W cache : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W node 0 : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 10230 30892 30892 W SLUB : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:13.000 10230 30892 30892 W cache : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 10230 30892 30892 W node 0 : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 10230 30892 30892 W SLUB : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:13.000 10230 30892 30892 W cache : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0

Based on [1], selinux is tolerate for failure of memory allocation.
Then, use __GFP_NOWARN together.

[1] 476accbe2f6e ("selinux: use GFP_NOWAIT in the AVC kmem_caches")

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
[PM: subj fix, line wraps, normalized commit refs]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
security/selinux/avc.c | 13 +++++++------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/selinux/avc.c b/security/selinux/avc.c
index d52be7b9f08c..717a4be771ab 100644
--- a/security/selinux/avc.c
+++ b/security/selinux/avc.c
@@ -366,26 +366,27 @@ static struct avc_xperms_decision_node
struct avc_xperms_decision_node *xpd_node;
struct extended_perms_decision *xpd;

- xpd_node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_decision_cachep, GFP_NOWAIT);
+ xpd_node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_decision_cachep,
+ GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN);
if (!xpd_node)
return NULL;

xpd = &xpd_node->xpd;
if (which & XPERMS_ALLOWED) {
xpd->allowed = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_data_cachep,
- GFP_NOWAIT);
+ GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN);
if (!xpd->allowed)
goto error;
}
if (which & XPERMS_AUDITALLOW) {
xpd->auditallow = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_data_cachep,
- GFP_NOWAIT);
+ GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN);
if (!xpd->auditallow)
goto error;
}
if (which & XPERMS_DONTAUDIT) {
xpd->dontaudit = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_data_cachep,
- GFP_NOWAIT);
+ GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN);
if (!xpd->dontaudit)
goto error;
}
@@ -413,7 +414,7 @@ static struct avc_xperms_node *avc_xperms_alloc(void)
{
struct avc_xperms_node *xp_node;

- xp_node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_cachep, GFP_NOWAIT);
+ xp_node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_cachep, GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN);
if (!xp_node)
return xp_node;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&xp_node->xpd_head);
@@ -569,7 +570,7 @@ static struct avc_node *avc_alloc_node(struct selinux_avc *avc)
{
struct avc_node *node;

- node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_node_cachep, GFP_NOWAIT);
+ node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_node_cachep, GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN);
if (!node)
goto out;

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