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* [merged] khugepaged-fix-null-pointer-dereference-due-to-race.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2020-07-24 23:38 akpm
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From: akpm @ 2020-07-24 23:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: david, kirill.shutemov, mm-commits, stable, yang.shi


The patch titled
     Subject: khugepaged: fix null-pointer dereference due to race
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     khugepaged-fix-null-pointer-dereference-due-to-race.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Subject: khugepaged: fix null-pointer dereference due to race

khugepaged has to drop mmap lock several times while collapsing a page. 
The situation can change while the lock is dropped and we need to
re-validate that the VMA is still in place and the PMD is still subject
for collapse.

But we miss one corner case: while collapsing an anonymous pages the VMA
could be replaced with file VMA. If the file VMA doesn't have any
private pages we get NULL pointer dereference:

	general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
	KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
	anon_vma_lock_write include/linux/rmap.h:120 [inline]
	collapse_huge_page mm/khugepaged.c:1110 [inline]
	khugepaged_scan_pmd mm/khugepaged.c:1349 [inline]
	khugepaged_scan_mm_slot mm/khugepaged.c:2110 [inline]
	khugepaged_do_scan mm/khugepaged.c:2193 [inline]
	khugepaged+0x3bba/0x5a10 mm/khugepaged.c:2238

The fix is to make sure that the VMA is anonymous in
hugepage_vma_revalidate().  The helper is only used for collapsing
anonymous pages.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200722121439.44328-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Fixes: 99cb0dbd47a1 ("mm,thp: add read-only THP support for (non-shmem) FS")
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+ed318e8b790ca72c5ad0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/khugepaged.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/khugepaged.c~khugepaged-fix-null-pointer-dereference-due-to-race
+++ a/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -958,6 +958,9 @@ static int hugepage_vma_revalidate(struc
 		return SCAN_ADDRESS_RANGE;
 	if (!hugepage_vma_check(vma, vma->vm_flags))
 		return SCAN_VMA_CHECK;
+	/* Anon VMA expected */
+	if (!vma->anon_vma || vma->vm_ops)
+		return SCAN_VMA_CHECK;
 	return 0;
 }
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com are



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