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From: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Ma Wupeng <mawupeng1@huawei.com>, <shy828301@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: memcg: fix NULL pointer in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty()
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 20:20:16 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13e4e6ee-414e-7e36-5ac1-fa0fa555ba41@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y9eEbTXNm0x0IZem@dhcp22.suse.cz>



On 2023/1/30 16:48, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 30-01-23 09:16:13, Kefeng Wang wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2023/1/30 5:48, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> On Sun, 29 Jan 2023 10:44:51 +0800 Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> As commit 18365225f044 ("hwpoison, memcg: forcibly uncharge LRU pages"),
>>>
>>> Merged in 2017.
>>>
>>>> hwpoison will forcibly uncharg a LRU hwpoisoned page, the folio_memcg
>>>> could be NULl, then, mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath() could
>>>> occurs a NULL pointer dereference, let's do not record the foreign
>>>> writebacks for folio memcg is null in mem_cgroup_track_foreign() to
>>>> fix it.
>>>>
>>>> Reported-by: Ma Wupeng <mawupeng1@huawei.com>
>>>> Fixes: 97b27821b485 ("writeback, memcg: Implement foreign dirty flushing")
>>>
>>> Merged in 2019.
>>>
...
> 
> Just to make sure I understand. The page has been hwpoisoned, uncharged
> but stayed in the page cache so a next page fault on the address has blowned
> up?
> 
> Say we address the NULL memcg case. What is the resulting behavior?
> Doesn't userspace access a poisoned page and get a silend memory
> corruption?

+ Yang Shi

Check previous link[1], seems that it is a known issue, and there is a 
TODO list for storage backed filesystems from Yang.


[1] 
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211020210755.23964-6-shy828301@gmail.com/T/#m1d40559ca2dcf94396df5369214288f69dec379b

  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-30 12:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-29  2:44 [PATCH] mm: memcg: fix NULL pointer in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty() Kefeng Wang
2023-01-29  4:09 ` [PATCH resend] mm: memcg: fix NULL pointer in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath() Kefeng Wang
2023-01-29 10:38   ` mikoxyzzz
2023-01-29 21:48 ` [PATCH] mm: memcg: fix NULL pointer in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty() Andrew Morton
2023-01-30  1:16   ` Kefeng Wang
2023-01-30  8:48     ` Michal Hocko
2023-01-30 12:20       ` Kefeng Wang [this message]
2023-01-30 13:02         ` Michal Hocko
2023-01-30 19:30         ` Yang Shi
2023-02-01  8:07           ` Michal Hocko
2023-02-01 17:21             ` Yang Shi

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