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From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To:     Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm/memory.c: do_fault: avoid usage of stale
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On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 08:28:04AM +0100, Jan Stancek wrote:
> 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
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov