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From: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Wang Hai <wanghai38@huawei.com>, <cl@linux.com>,
	<penberg@kernel.org>, <rientjes@google.com>,
	<iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>, <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	<vbabka@suse.cz>, <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, <shakeelb@google.com>,
	<ast@kernel.org>, <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>,
	<linux-mm@kvack.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm/memcg: fix NULL pointer dereference in memcg_slab_free_hook()
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 16:32:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YQHpGYW6s/YKx/0b@carbon.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YQGJUz9kKfYR37ce@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 06:44:03PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 28-07-21 22:56:55, Wang Hai wrote:
> > When I use kfree_rcu() to free a large memory allocated by
> > kmalloc_node(), the following dump occurs.
> > 
> > BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020
> > [...]
> > Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
> > [...]
> > Workqueue: events kfree_rcu_work
> > RIP: 0010:__obj_to_index include/linux/slub_def.h:182 [inline]
> > RIP: 0010:obj_to_index include/linux/slub_def.h:191 [inline]
> > RIP: 0010:memcg_slab_free_hook+0x120/0x260 mm/slab.h:363
> > [...]
> > Call Trace:
> >  kmem_cache_free_bulk+0x58/0x630 mm/slub.c:3293
> >  kfree_bulk include/linux/slab.h:413 [inline]
> >  kfree_rcu_work+0x1ab/0x200 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3300
> >  process_one_work+0x207/0x530 kernel/workqueue.c:2276
> >  worker_thread+0x320/0x610 kernel/workqueue.c:2422
> >  kthread+0x13d/0x160 kernel/kthread.c:313
> >  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:294
> > 
> > When kmalloc_node() a large memory, page is allocated, not slab,
> > so when freeing memory via kfree_rcu(), this large memory should not
> > be used by memcg_slab_free_hook(), because memcg_slab_free_hook() is
> > is used for slab.
> > 
> > Using page_objcgs_check() instead of page_objcgs() in
> > memcg_slab_free_hook() to fix this bug.
> > 
> > Fixes: 270c6a71460e ("mm: memcontrol/slab: Use helpers to access slab page's memcg_data")
> > Signed-off-by: Wang Hai <wanghai38@huawei.com>
> 
> This looks like a much better fix. Thanks!

+1

Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>

Thank you, Wang!

  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-28 23:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-28 14:56 [PATCH v2] mm/memcg: fix NULL pointer dereference in memcg_slab_free_hook() Wang Hai
2021-07-28 15:14 ` Shakeel Butt
2021-07-28 16:44 ` Michal Hocko
2021-07-28 23:32   ` Roman Gushchin [this message]
2021-07-29  6:03 ` Muchun Song
2021-07-29  6:48 ` Kefeng Wang

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