From: Ilya Lipnitskiy <ilya.lipnitskiy@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ilya Lipnitskiy <ilya.lipnitskiy@gmail.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] mm: fix race by making init_zero_pfn() early_initcall
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 22:29:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210329052922.1130493-1-ilya.lipnitskiy@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210329052426.1130040-1-ilya.lipnitskiy@gmail.com>
There are code paths that rely on zero_pfn to be fully initialized
before core_initcall. For example, wq_sysfs_init() is a core_initcall
function that eventually results in a call to kernel_execve, which
causes a page fault with a subsequent mmput. If zero_pfn is not
initialized by then it may not get cleaned up properly and result in an
error:
BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:(ptrval) type:MM_ANONPAGES val:1
Here is an analysis of the race as seen on a MIPS device. On this
particular MT7621 device (Ubiquiti ER-X), zero_pfn is PFN 0 until
initialized, at which point it becomes PFN 5120:
1. wq_sysfs_init calls into kobject_uevent_env at core_initcall:
[<80340dc8>] kobject_uevent_env+0x7e4/0x7ec
[<8033f8b8>] kset_register+0x68/0x88
[<803cf824>] bus_register+0xdc/0x34c
[<803cfac8>] subsys_virtual_register+0x34/0x78
[<8086afb0>] wq_sysfs_init+0x1c/0x4c
[<80001648>] do_one_initcall+0x50/0x1a8
[<8086503c>] kernel_init_freeable+0x230/0x2c8
[<8066bca0>] kernel_init+0x10/0x100
[<80003038>] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x14/0x1c
2. kobject_uevent_env() calls call_usermodehelper_exec() which executes
kernel_execve asynchronously.
3. Memory allocations in kernel_execve cause a page fault, bumping the
MM reference counter:
[<8015adb4>] add_mm_counter_fast+0xb4/0xc0
[<80160d58>] handle_mm_fault+0x6e4/0xea0
[<80158aa4>] __get_user_pages.part.78+0x190/0x37c
[<8015992c>] __get_user_pages_remote+0x128/0x360
[<801a6d9c>] get_arg_page+0x34/0xa0
[<801a7394>] copy_string_kernel+0x194/0x2a4
[<801a880c>] kernel_execve+0x11c/0x298
[<800420f4>] call_usermodehelper_exec_async+0x114/0x194
4. In case zero_pfn has not been initialized yet, zap_pte_range does
not decrement the MM_ANONPAGES RSS counter and the BUG message is
triggered shortly afterwards when __mmdrop checks the ref counters:
[<800285e8>] __mmdrop+0x98/0x1d0
[<801a6de8>] free_bprm+0x44/0x118
[<801a86a8>] kernel_execve+0x160/0x1d8
[<800420f4>] call_usermodehelper_exec_async+0x114/0x194
[<80003198>] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x14/0x1c
To avoid races such as described above, initialize init_zero_pfn at
early_initcall level. Depending on the architecture, ZERO_PAGE is either
constant or gets initialized even earlier, at paging_init, so there is
no issue with initializing zero_pfn earlier.
ML discussion: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CALCv0x2YqOXEAy2Q=hafjhHCtTHVodChv1qpM=niAXOpqEbt7w@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Ilya Lipnitskiy <ilya.lipnitskiy@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
mm/memory.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 46ef306375bd..a8bbc4fc121f 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ static int __init init_zero_pfn(void)
zero_pfn = page_to_pfn(ZERO_PAGE(0));
return 0;
}
-core_initcall(init_zero_pfn);
+early_initcall(init_zero_pfn);
void mm_trace_rss_stat(struct mm_struct *mm, int member, long count)
{
--
2.31.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-29 5:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-29 5:24 [PATCH] mm: fix race by making init_zero_pfn() early_initcall Ilya Lipnitskiy
2021-03-29 5:29 ` Ilya Lipnitskiy [this message]
2021-03-30 4:42 ` [PATCH v3] " Ilya Lipnitskiy
2021-03-30 4:59 ` Zhou Yanjie
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