+ mm-memoryc-do_fault-avoid-usage-of-stale-vm_area_struct.patch added to -mm tree

+ mm-memoryc-do_fault-avoid-usage-of-stale-vm_area_struct.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm/memory.c: do_fault: avoid usage of stale vm_area_struct
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     mm-memoryc-do_fault-avoid-usage-of-stale-vm_area_struct.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-memoryc-do_fault-avoid-usage-of-stale-vm_area_struct.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-memoryc-do_fault-avoid-usage-of-stale-vm_area_struct.patch

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From: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Subject: mm/memory.c: do_fault: avoid usage of stale vm_area_struct

LTP testcase mtest06 [1] can trigger a crash on s390x running 5.0.0-rc8.
This is a stress test, where one thread mmaps/writes/munmaps memory area
and other thread is trying to read from it:

  CPU: 0 PID: 2611 Comm: mmap1 Not tainted 5.0.0-rc8+ #51
  Hardware name: IBM 2964 N63 400 (z/VM 6.4.0)
  Krnl PSW : 0404e00180000000 00000000001ac8d8 (__lock_acquire+0x7/0x7a8)
  Call Trace:
  ([<0000000000000000>]           (null))
   [<00000000001adae4>] lock_acquire+0xec/0x258
   [<000000000080d1ac>] _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x5c/0x98
   [<000000000012a780>] page_table_free+0x48/0x1a8
   [<00000000002f6e54>] do_fault+0xdc/0x670
   [<00000000002fadae>] __handle_mm_fault+0x416/0x5f0
   [<00000000002fb138>] handle_mm_fault+0x1b0/0x320
   [<00000000001248cc>] do_dat_exception+0x19c/0x2c8
   [<000000000080e5ee>] pgm_check_handler+0x19e/0x200

page_table_free() is called with NULL mm parameter, but because
"0" is a valid address on s390 (see S390_lowcore), it keeps
going until it eventually crashes in lockdep's lock_acquire.
This crash is reproducible at least since 4.14.

Problem is that "vmf->vma" used in do_fault() can become stale.
Because mmap_sem may be released, other threads can come in,
call munmap() and cause "vma" be returned to kmem cache, and
get zeroed/re-initialized and re-used:

handle_mm_fault                           |
  __handle_mm_fault                       |
    do_fault                              |
      vma = vmf->vma                      |
      do_read_fault                       |
        __do_fault                        |
          vma->vm_ops->fault(vmf);        |
            mmap_sem is released          |
                                          |
                                          | do_munmap()
                                          |   remove_vma_list()
                                          |     remove_vma()
                                          |       vm_area_free()
                                          |         # vma is released
                                          | ...
                                          | # same vma is allocated
                                          | # from kmem cache
                                          | do_mmap()
                                          |   vm_area_alloc()
                                          |     memset(vma, 0, ...)
                                          |
      pte_free(vma->vm_mm, ...);          |
        page_table_free                   |
          spin_lock_bh(&mm->context.lock);|
            <crash>                       |

Cache mm_struct to avoid using potentially stale "vma".

[1] https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/blob/master/testcases/kernel/mem/mtest06/mmap1.c

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5b3fdf19e2a5be460a384b936f5b56e13733f1b8.1551595137.git.jstancek@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---


--- a/mm/memory.c~mm-memoryc-do_fault-avoid-usage-of-stale-vm_area_struct
+++ a/mm/memory.c
@@ -3536,10 +3536,13 @@ static vm_fault_t do_shared_fault(struct
  * but allow concurrent faults).
  * The mmap_sem may have been released depending on flags and our
  * return value.  See filemap_fault() and __lock_page_or_retry().
+ * If mmap_sem is released, vma may become invalid (for example
+ * by other thread calling munmap()).
  */
 static vm_fault_t do_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 {
 	struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma;
+	struct mm_struct *vm_mm = vma->vm_mm;
 	vm_fault_t ret;
 
 	/*
@@ -3580,7 +3583,7 @@ static vm_fault_t do_fault(struct vm_fau
 
 	/* preallocated pagetable is unused: free it */
 	if (vmf->prealloc_pte) {
-		pte_free(vma->vm_mm, vmf->prealloc_pte);
+		pte_free(vm_mm, vmf->prealloc_pte);
 		vmf->prealloc_pte = NULL;
 	}
 	return ret;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from jstancek@redhat.com are

mm-memoryc-do_fault-avoid-usage-of-stale-vm_area_struct.patch