From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ye Liu <ye.liu@linux.dev>, Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>,
Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
"Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
"David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.1.y] mm/page_owner: use memcg_data snapshot to avoid TOCTOU in print_page_owner_memcg()
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2026 19:56:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260903235639.1811043-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026090314-dagger-sharpness-8cd1@gregkh>
From: Ye Liu <ye.liu@linux.dev>
[ Upstream commit 90f095b816e25c6a9e4446d299bac5007fdcb3df ]
print_page_owner_memcg() reads page->memcg_data via READ_ONCE() at the
start to guard against tail pages and NULL data. However, it later
re-reads page->memcg_data locklessly in two places:
1: page_memcg_check(page)
2: PageMemcgKmem(page) (via folio_memcg_kmem(), which includes
VM_BUG_ON assertions for tail pages and MEMCG_DATA_OBJEXTS)
If the page is concurrently freed and reallocated as a THP tail page or
slab page between these calls, the VM_BUG_ON assertions can trigger on
CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y builds, crashing the kernel.
Fix both TOCTOU issues by using the memcg_data snapshot throughout.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260714015117.78351-10-ye.liu@linux.dev
Fixes: fcf8935832b8 ("mm/page_owner: print memcg information")
Signed-off-by: Ye Liu <ye.liu@linux.dev>
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ adapted memcg_data decoding to Linux 6.6’s mixed mem_cgroup and obj_cgroup representation. ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
mm/page_owner.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_owner.c b/mm/page_owner.c
index 2d27f532df4c1..797fca82d4fa8 100644
--- a/mm/page_owner.c
+++ b/mm/page_owner.c
@@ -361,20 +361,28 @@ static inline int print_page_owner_memcg(char *kbuf, size_t count, int ret,
{
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
unsigned long memcg_data;
+ struct obj_cgroup *objcg;
struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
bool online;
char name[80];
rcu_read_lock();
memcg_data = READ_ONCE(page->memcg_data);
- if (!memcg_data)
+ if (!memcg_data || PageTail(page))
goto out_unlock;
- if (memcg_data & MEMCG_DATA_OBJCGS)
+ if (memcg_data & MEMCG_DATA_OBJCGS) {
ret += scnprintf(kbuf + ret, count - ret,
"Slab cache page\n");
+ goto out_unlock;
+ }
- memcg = page_memcg_check(page);
+ if (memcg_data & MEMCG_DATA_KMEM) {
+ objcg = (void *)(memcg_data & ~MEMCG_DATA_FLAGS_MASK);
+ memcg = objcg ? obj_cgroup_memcg(objcg) : NULL;
+ } else {
+ memcg = (void *)(memcg_data & ~MEMCG_DATA_FLAGS_MASK);
+ }
if (!memcg)
goto out_unlock;
@@ -382,7 +390,7 @@ static inline int print_page_owner_memcg(char *kbuf, size_t count, int ret,
cgroup_name(memcg->css.cgroup, name, sizeof(name));
ret += scnprintf(kbuf + ret, count - ret,
"Charged %sto %smemcg %s\n",
- PageMemcgKmem(page) ? "(via objcg) " : "",
+ (memcg_data & MEMCG_DATA_KMEM) ? "(via objcg) " : "",
online ? "" : "offline ",
name);
out_unlock:
--
2.53.0
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2026-09-03 10:49 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/page_owner: use memcg_data snapshot to avoid TOCTOU in" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree gregkh
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