>From 95fa7fe8ebc7dcf4d09a2e097c06abdf24ba81b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 14:30:03 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] bdi: Fix another oops in wb_workfn() syzbot is reporting NULL pointer dereference at wb_workfn() [1] due to wb->bdi->dev being NULL. And Dmitry confirmed that wb->state was WB_shutting_down after wb->bdi->dev became NULL. This indicates that unregister_bdi() failed to call wb_shutdown() on one of wb objects. The problem is in cgwb_bdi_unregister() which does cgwb_kill() and thus drops bdi's reference to wb structures before going through the list of wbs again and calling wb_shutdown() on each of them. This way the loop iterating through all wbs can easily miss a wb if that wb has already passed through cgwb_remove_from_bdi_list() called from wb_shutdown() from cgwb_release_workfn() and as a result fully shutdown bdi although wb_workfn() for this wb structure is still running. In fact there are also other ways cgwb_bdi_unregister() can race with cgwb_release_workfn() leading e.g. to use-after-free issues: CPU1 CPU2 cgwb_bdi_unregister() cgwb_kill(*slot); cgwb_release() queue_work(cgwb_release_wq, &wb->release_work); cgwb_release_workfn() wb = list_first_entry(&bdi->wb_list, ...) spin_unlock_irq(&cgwb_lock); wb_shutdown(wb); ... kfree_rcu(wb, rcu); wb_shutdown(wb); -> oops use-after-free We solve these issues by synchronizing writeback structure shutdown from cgwb_bdi_unregister() with cgwb_release_workfn() using a new mutex. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara --- include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h | 1 + mm/backing-dev.c | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h b/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h index 0bd432a4d7bd..661e3121e580 100644 --- a/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h +++ b/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h @@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ struct backing_dev_info { #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK struct radix_tree_root cgwb_tree; /* radix tree of active cgroup wbs */ struct rb_root cgwb_congested_tree; /* their congested states */ + struct mutex cgwb_release_mutex; /* protect shutdown of wb structs */ #else struct bdi_writeback_congested *wb_congested; #endif diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c index 347cc834c04a..078cb4e0fb62 100644 --- a/mm/backing-dev.c +++ b/mm/backing-dev.c @@ -508,10 +508,12 @@ static void cgwb_release_workfn(struct work_struct *work) struct bdi_writeback *wb = container_of(work, struct bdi_writeback, release_work); + mutex_lock(&wb->bdi->cgwb_release_mutex); wb_shutdown(wb); css_put(wb->memcg_css); css_put(wb->blkcg_css); + mutex_unlock(&wb->bdi->cgwb_release_mutex); fprop_local_destroy_percpu(&wb->memcg_completions); percpu_ref_exit(&wb->refcnt); @@ -697,6 +699,7 @@ static int cgwb_bdi_init(struct backing_dev_info *bdi) INIT_RADIX_TREE(&bdi->cgwb_tree, GFP_ATOMIC); bdi->cgwb_congested_tree = RB_ROOT; + mutex_init(&bdi->cgwb_release_mutex); ret = wb_init(&bdi->wb, bdi, 1, GFP_KERNEL); if (!ret) { @@ -717,7 +720,10 @@ static void cgwb_bdi_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi) spin_lock_irq(&cgwb_lock); radix_tree_for_each_slot(slot, &bdi->cgwb_tree, &iter, 0) cgwb_kill(*slot); + spin_unlock_irq(&cgwb_lock); + mutex_lock(&bdi->cgwb_release_mutex); + spin_lock_irq(&cgwb_lock); while (!list_empty(&bdi->wb_list)) { wb = list_first_entry(&bdi->wb_list, struct bdi_writeback, bdi_node); @@ -726,6 +732,7 @@ static void cgwb_bdi_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi) spin_lock_irq(&cgwb_lock); } spin_unlock_irq(&cgwb_lock); + mutex_unlock(&bdi->cgwb_release_mutex); } /** -- 2.16.4