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Date:	Thu, 05 May 2011 08:18:16 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, casteyde.christian@...e.fr,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	Vegard Nossum <vegardno@....uio.no>
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 33502] New: Caught 64-bit read from
 uninitialized memory in __alloc_skb

Le mercredi 20 avril 2011 à 17:01 +0200, Eric Dumazet a écrit :
> Le mercredi 20 avril 2011 à 09:42 -0500, Christoph Lameter a écrit :
> 
> > Avoiding the irq handling yields the savings that improve the fastpath. if
> > you do both then there is only a regression left. So lets go with
> > disabling the CMPXCHG_LOCAL.
> 
> OK, let's do that then.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> [PATCH v4] slub: dont use cmpxchg_double if KMEMCHECK or DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
> 
> Christian Casteyde reported a KMEMCHECK splat in slub code.
> 
> Problem is now we are lockless and allow IRQ in slab_alloc(), the object
> we manipulate from freelist can be allocated and freed right before we
> try to read object->next.
> 
> Same problem can happen with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
> 
> Just dont use cmpxchg_double() if either CONFIG_KMEMCHECK or
> CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is defined.
> 
> Reported-by: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@...e.fr>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@....uio.no>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
> ---
>  mm/slub.c |   45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>  1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index 94d2a33..f31ab2c 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -1540,7 +1540,12 @@ static void unfreeze_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page, int tail)
>  	}
>  }
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
> +#if defined(CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL) && !defined(CONFIG_KMEMCHECK) && \
> +				     !defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC)
> +#define SLUB_USE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
> +#endif
> +
> +#ifdef SLUB_USE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
>  #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
>  /*
>   * Calculate the next globally unique transaction for disambiguiation
> @@ -1604,7 +1609,7 @@ static inline void note_cmpxchg_failure(const char *n,
>  
>  void init_kmem_cache_cpus(struct kmem_cache *s)
>  {
> -#ifdef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
> +#ifdef SLUB_USE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
>  	int cpu;
>  
>  	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
> @@ -1643,7 +1648,7 @@ static void deactivate_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct kmem_cache_cpu *c)
>  		page->inuse--;
>  	}
>  	c->page = NULL;
> -#ifdef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
> +#ifdef SLUB_USE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
>  	c->tid = next_tid(c->tid);
>  #endif
>  	unfreeze_slab(s, page, tail);
> @@ -1780,7 +1785,7 @@ static void *__slab_alloc(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags, int node,
>  {
>  	void **object;
>  	struct page *new;
> -#ifdef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
> +#ifdef SLUB_USE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  
>  	local_irq_save(flags);
> @@ -1819,7 +1824,7 @@ load_freelist:
>  	c->node = page_to_nid(c->page);
>  unlock_out:
>  	slab_unlock(c->page);
> -#ifdef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
> +#ifdef SLUB_USE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
>  	c->tid = next_tid(c->tid);
>  	local_irq_restore(flags);
>  #endif
> @@ -1858,7 +1863,7 @@ new_slab:
>  	}
>  	if (!(gfpflags & __GFP_NOWARN) && printk_ratelimit())
>  		slab_out_of_memory(s, gfpflags, node);
> -#ifdef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
> +#ifdef SLUB_USE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
>  	local_irq_restore(flags);
>  #endif
>  	return NULL;
> @@ -1887,7 +1892,7 @@ static __always_inline void *slab_alloc(struct kmem_cache *s,
>  {
>  	void **object;
>  	struct kmem_cache_cpu *c;
> -#ifdef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
> +#ifdef SLUB_USE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
>  	unsigned long tid;
>  #else
>  	unsigned long flags;
> @@ -1896,7 +1901,7 @@ static __always_inline void *slab_alloc(struct kmem_cache *s,
>  	if (slab_pre_alloc_hook(s, gfpflags))
>  		return NULL;
>  
> -#ifndef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
> +#ifndef SLUB_USE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
>  	local_irq_save(flags);
>  #else
>  redo:
> @@ -1910,7 +1915,7 @@ redo:
>  	 */
>  	c = __this_cpu_ptr(s->cpu_slab);
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
> +#ifdef SLUB_USE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
>  	/*
>  	 * The transaction ids are globally unique per cpu and per operation on
>  	 * a per cpu queue. Thus they can be guarantee that the cmpxchg_double
> @@ -1927,7 +1932,7 @@ redo:
>  		object = __slab_alloc(s, gfpflags, node, addr, c);
>  
>  	else {
> -#ifdef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
> +#ifdef SLUB_USE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
>  		/*
>  		 * The cmpxchg will only match if there was no additional
>  		 * operation and if we are on the right processor.
> @@ -1954,7 +1959,7 @@ redo:
>  		stat(s, ALLOC_FASTPATH);
>  	}
>  
> -#ifndef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
> +#ifndef SLUB_USE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
>  	local_irq_restore(flags);
>  #endif
>  
> @@ -2034,7 +2039,7 @@ static void __slab_free(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page,
>  {
>  	void *prior;
>  	void **object = (void *)x;
> -#ifdef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
> +#ifdef SLUB_USE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  
>  	local_irq_save(flags);
> @@ -2070,7 +2075,7 @@ checks_ok:
>  
>  out_unlock:
>  	slab_unlock(page);
> -#ifdef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
> +#ifdef SLUB_USE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
>  	local_irq_restore(flags);
>  #endif
>  	return;
> @@ -2084,7 +2089,7 @@ slab_empty:
>  		stat(s, FREE_REMOVE_PARTIAL);
>  	}
>  	slab_unlock(page);
> -#ifdef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
> +#ifdef SLUB_USE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
>  	local_irq_restore(flags);
>  #endif
>  	stat(s, FREE_SLAB);
> @@ -2113,7 +2118,7 @@ static __always_inline void slab_free(struct kmem_cache *s,
>  {
>  	void **object = (void *)x;
>  	struct kmem_cache_cpu *c;
> -#ifdef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
> +#ifdef SLUB_USE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
>  	unsigned long tid;
>  #else
>  	unsigned long flags;
> @@ -2121,7 +2126,7 @@ static __always_inline void slab_free(struct kmem_cache *s,
>  
>  	slab_free_hook(s, x);
>  
> -#ifndef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
> +#ifndef SLUB_USE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
>  	local_irq_save(flags);
>  
>  #else
> @@ -2136,7 +2141,7 @@ redo:
>  	 */
>  	c = __this_cpu_ptr(s->cpu_slab);
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
> +#ifdef SLUB_USE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
>  	tid = c->tid;
>  	barrier();
>  #endif
> @@ -2144,7 +2149,7 @@ redo:
>  	if (likely(page == c->page && c->node != NUMA_NO_NODE)) {
>  		set_freepointer(s, object, c->freelist);
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
> +#ifdef SLUB_USE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
>  		if (unlikely(!this_cpu_cmpxchg_double(
>  				s->cpu_slab->freelist, s->cpu_slab->tid,
>  				c->freelist, tid,
> @@ -2160,7 +2165,7 @@ redo:
>  	} else
>  		__slab_free(s, page, x, addr);
>  
> -#ifndef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
> +#ifndef SLUB_USE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
>  	local_irq_restore(flags);
>  #endif
>  }
> @@ -2354,7 +2359,7 @@ static inline int alloc_kmem_cache_cpus(struct kmem_cache *s)
>  	BUILD_BUG_ON(PERCPU_DYNAMIC_EARLY_SIZE <
>  			SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT * sizeof(struct kmem_cache_cpu));
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
> +#ifdef SLUB_USE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE
>  	/*
>  	 * Must align to double word boundary for the double cmpxchg instructions
>  	 * to work.
> 


Is anybody taking the patch and sending it upstream ?

Thanks


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