[PATCH 6.6 078/143] mm: cachestat: fix folio read-after-free in cache walk

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-03-04T21:40:26Z

From: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>

commit 3a75cb05d53f4a6823a32deb078de1366954a804 upstream.

In cachestat, we access the folio from the page cache's xarray to compute
its page offset, and check for its dirty and writeback flags. However, we
do not hold a reference to the folio before performing these actions,
which means the folio can concurrently be released and reused as another
folio/page/slab.

Get around this altogether by just using xarray's existing machinery for
the folio page offsets and dirty/writeback states.

This changes behavior for tmpfs files to now always report zeroes in their
dirty and writeback counters. This is okay as tmpfs doesn't follow
conventional writeback cache behavior: its pages get "cleaned" during
swapout, after which they're no longer resident etc.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240220153409.GA216065@cmpxchg.org
Fixes: cf264e1329fb ("cachestat: implement cachestat syscall")
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Tested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [6.4+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
mm/filemap.c | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -4159,28 +4159,40 @@ static void filemap_cachestat(struct add

rcu_read_lock();
xas_for_each(&xas, folio, last_index) {
+ int order;
unsigned long nr_pages;
pgoff_t folio_first_index, folio_last_index;

+ /*
+ * Don't deref the folio. It is not pinned, and might
+ * get freed (and reused) underneath us.
+ *
+ * We *could* pin it, but that would be expensive for
+ * what should be a fast and lightweight syscall.
+ *
+ * Instead, derive all information of interest from
+ * the rcu-protected xarray.
+ */
+
if (xas_retry(&xas, folio))
continue;

+ order = xa_get_order(xas.xa, xas.xa_index);
+ nr_pages = 1 << order;
+ folio_first_index = round_down(xas.xa_index, 1 << order);
+ folio_last_index = folio_first_index + nr_pages - 1;
+
+ /* Folios might straddle the range boundaries, only count covered pages */
+ if (folio_first_index < first_index)
+ nr_pages -= first_index - folio_first_index;
+
+ if (folio_last_index > last_index)
+ nr_pages -= folio_last_index - last_index;
+
if (xa_is_value(folio)) {
/* page is evicted */
void *shadow = (void *)folio;
bool workingset; /* not used */
- int order = xa_get_order(xas.xa, xas.xa_index);
-
- nr_pages = 1 << order;
- folio_first_index = round_down(xas.xa_index, 1 << order);
- folio_last_index = folio_first_index + nr_pages - 1;
-
- /* Folios might straddle the range boundaries, only count covered pages */
- if (folio_first_index < first_index)
- nr_pages -= first_index - folio_first_index;
-
- if (folio_last_index > last_index)
- nr_pages -= folio_last_index - last_index;

cs->nr_evicted += nr_pages;

@@ -4198,24 +4210,13 @@ static void filemap_cachestat(struct add
goto resched;
}

- nr_pages = folio_nr_pages(folio);
- folio_first_index = folio_pgoff(folio);
- folio_last_index = folio_first_index + nr_pages - 1;
-
- /* Folios might straddle the range boundaries, only count covered pages */
- if (folio_first_index < first_index)
- nr_pages -= first_index - folio_first_index;
-
- if (folio_last_index > last_index)
- nr_pages -= folio_last_index - last_index;
-
/* page is in cache */
cs->nr_cache += nr_pages;

- if (folio_test_dirty(folio))
+ if (xas_get_mark(&xas, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY))
cs->nr_dirty += nr_pages;

- if (folio_test_writeback(folio))
+ if (xas_get_mark(&xas, PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK))
cs->nr_writeback += nr_pages;