From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756825AbcEFC4C (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 May 2016 22:56:02 -0400 Received: from szxga03-in.huawei.com ([119.145.14.66]:23994 "EHLO szxga03-in.huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754684AbcEFC4A (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 May 2016 22:56:00 -0400 Message-ID: <572C0674.9080006@huawei.com> Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 10:50:28 +0800 From: zhouchengming User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: , , , , , , , , , , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH] ksm: fix conflict between mmput and scan_get_next_rmap_item References: <1462452176-33462-1-git-send-email-zhouchengming1@huawei.com> <20160505140745.32b100a6d100a86d59f1d11b@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20160505140745.32b100a6d100a86d59f1d11b@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.177.236.183] X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected X-Mirapoint-Virus-RAPID-Raw: score=unknown(0), refid=str=0001.0A020203.572C06DC.002B,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2013-05-26 15:14:31, dmn=2013-03-21 17:37:32 X-Mirapoint-Loop-Id: 7b91c3cbccceff4793731c64c0ef3d07 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2016/5/6 5:07, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 5 May 2016 20:42:56 +0800 Zhou Chengming wrote: > >> A concurrency issue about KSM in the function scan_get_next_rmap_item. >> >> task A (ksmd): |task B (the mm's task): >> | >> mm = slot->mm; | >> down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); | >> | >> ... | >> | >> spin_lock(&ksm_mmlist_lock); | >> | >> ksm_scan.mm_slot go to the next slot; | >> | >> spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock); | >> |mmput() -> >> | ksm_exit(): >> | >> |spin_lock(&ksm_mmlist_lock); >> |if (mm_slot&& ksm_scan.mm_slot != mm_slot) { >> | if (!mm_slot->rmap_list) { >> | easy_to_free = 1; >> | ... >> | >> |if (easy_to_free) { >> | mmdrop(mm); >> | ... >> | >> |So this mm_struct will be freed successfully. >> | >> up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); | >> >> As we can see above, the ksmd thread may access a mm_struct that already >> been freed to the kmem_cache. >> Suppose a fork will get this mm_struct from the kmem_cache, the ksmd thread >> then call up_read(&mm->mmap_sem), will cause mmap_sem.count to become -1. >> I changed the scan_get_next_rmap_item function refered to the khugepaged >> scan function. > > Thanks. > > We need to decide whether this fix should be backported into earlier > (-stable) kernels. Can you tell us how easily this is triggered and > share your thoughts on this? > > > . > I write a patch that can easily trigger this bug. When ksmd go to sleep, if a fork get this mm_struct, BUG_ON will be triggered. From eedfdd12eb11858f69ff4a4300acad42946ca260 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhou Chengming Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 17:49:22 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] ksm: trigger a bug Signed-off-by: Zhou Chengming --- mm/ksm.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c index ca6d2a0..676368c 100644 --- a/mm/ksm.c +++ b/mm/ksm.c @@ -1519,6 +1519,18 @@ static struct rmap_item *get_next_rmap_item(struct mm_slot *mm_slot, return rmap_item; } +static void trigger_a_bug(struct task_struct *p, struct mm_struct *mm) +{ + /* send KILL sig to the task, hope the mm_struct will be freed */ + do_send_sig_info(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_FORCED, p, true); + /* sleep for 5s, the mm_struct will be freed and another fork + * will use this mm_struct + */ + schedule_timeout(msecs_to_jiffies(5000)); + /* the mm_struct owned by another task */ + BUG_ON(mm->owner != p); +} + static struct rmap_item *scan_get_next_rmap_item(struct page **page) { struct mm_struct *mm; @@ -1526,6 +1538,7 @@ static struct rmap_item *scan_get_next_rmap_item(struct page **page) struct vm_area_struct *vma; struct rmap_item *rmap_item; int nid; + struct task_struct *taskp; if (list_empty(&ksm_mm_head.mm_list)) return NULL; @@ -1636,6 +1649,8 @@ next_mm: remove_trailing_rmap_items(slot, ksm_scan.rmap_list); spin_lock(&ksm_mmlist_lock); + /* get the mm's task now in the ksm_mmlist_lock */ + taskp = mm->owner; ksm_scan.mm_slot = list_entry(slot->mm_list.next, struct mm_slot, mm_list); if (ksm_scan.address == 0) { @@ -1651,6 +1666,7 @@ next_mm: hash_del(&slot->link); list_del(&slot->mm_list); spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock); + trigger_a_bug(taskp, mm); free_mm_slot(slot); clear_bit(MMF_VM_MERGEABLE, &mm->flags); @@ -1658,6 +1674,7 @@ next_mm: mmdrop(mm); } else { spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock); + trigger_a_bug(taskp, mm); up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); } -- 1.7.7