linux-kernel - [PATCH 02/14] mm,migration: Do not try to migrate unmapped anonymous pages

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Date:	Fri,  2 Apr 2010 17:02:36 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Adam Litke <agl@...ibm.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH 02/14] mm,migration: Do not try to migrate unmapped anonymous pages

rmap_walk_anon() was triggering errors in memory compaction that look like
use-after-free errors. The problem is that between the page being isolated
from the LRU and rcu_read_lock() being taken, the mapcount of the page
dropped to 0 and the anon_vma gets freed. This can happen during memory
compaction if pages being migrated belong to a process that exits before
migration completes. Hence, the use-after-free race looks like

 1. Page isolated for migration
 2. Process exits
 3. page_mapcount(page) drops to zero so anon_vma was no longer reliable
 4. unmap_and_move() takes the rcu_lock but the anon_vma is already garbage
 4. call try_to_unmap, looks up tha anon_vma and "locks" it but the lock
    is garbage.

This patch checks the mapcount after the rcu lock is taken. If the
mapcount is zero, the anon_vma is assumed to be freed and no further
action is taken.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
---
 mm/migrate.c |   11 +++++++++++
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 06e6316..5c5c1bd 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -599,6 +599,17 @@ static int unmap_and_move(new_page_t get_new_page, unsigned long private,
 	if (PageAnon(page)) {
 		rcu_read_lock();
 		rcu_locked = 1;
+
+		/*
+		 * If the page has no mappings any more, just bail. An
+		 * unmapped anon page is likely to be freed soon but worse,
+		 * it's possible its anon_vma disappeared between when
+		 * the page was isolated and when we reached here while
+		 * the RCU lock was not held
+		 */
+		if (!page_mapped(page))
+			goto rcu_unlock;
+
 		anon_vma = page_anon_vma(page);
 		atomic_inc(&anon_vma->migrate_refcount);
 	}
-- 
1.6.5

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