linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 03/10] zram: use zram->lock to protect zram_free

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Message-ID: <51AF6095.8050701@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:21 +0800
From:	Jiang Liu <liuj97@...il.com>
To:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
CC:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>,
	Yijing Wang <wangyijing@...wei.com>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/10] zram: use zram->lock to protect zram_free_page()
 in swap free notify path

On Wed 05 Jun 2013 02:29:35 PM CST, Minchan Kim wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 12:06:01AM +0800, Jiang Liu wrote:
>> zram_free_page() is protected by down_write(&zram->lock) when called by
>> zram_bvec_write(), but there's no such protection when called by
>> zram_slot_free_notify(), which may cause wrong states to zram object.
>>
>> There are two possible consequences of this issue:
>> 1) It may cause invalid memory access if we read from a zram device used
>>    as swap device. (Not sure whether it's legal to make read/write
>>    requests to a zram device used as swap device.)
>
> I think it's possible if the permission is allowed so we should take care
> of that. But I'd like to clear your comment about "invalid memory access".
>
> As I read the code, one of the problem we can encounter by race between
> zram_bvec_read and zram_slot_free_notify is BUG_ON(!handle) on zs_map_object
> or pr_err("Decompression failed xxxx) on zram_decompress_page.
> Otherwise, it would be able to access different swap block with
> user request's one.
>
> Could you please expand your vague "invalid memory access"?
Hi Minchan,
     I have no enough time to read all zsmalloc code yet, but I'm 
thinking of this scenario:
a user does a "dd" from a zram device used as swap device.

A possible sequence may be:
Thread 1: zram_bvec_rw()->zram_bvec_read()->zram_decompress_page()

Just before zram_decompress_page() calls zs_map_object().
Thread 2: 
zram_slot_free_notify()->zram_free_page()->zs_free()->free_zspage()->reset_page()/free_page()

Then:
Thread 1: zs_map_object()
                              
->get_zspage_mapping(get_first_page(page), &class_idx, &fg)
                                            ->get_first_page()
                                                        ->return 
page->first_page  /* may be invalid address */

Actually I guess it may cause different invalid memory access, 
depending on the
executing order of thread 1 and thread 2.

Regards!
Gerry
>
>
>> 2) It may cause some fields (bad_compress, good_compress, pages_stored)
>>    in zram->stats wrong if the swap layer makes concurrently call to
>>    zram_slot_free_notify().
>>
>> So enhance zram_slot_free_notify() to acquire writer lock on zram->lock
>> before calling zram_free_page().
>
> OK.
>
> And please add the comment struct zram->lock feild, too.
>
> Thanks.
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>
>> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
>> ---
>>  drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c | 2 ++
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
>> index 5a2f20b..847d207 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
>> @@ -582,7 +582,9 @@ static void zram_slot_free_notify(struct block_device *bdev,
>>  	struct zram *zram;
>>
>>  	zram = bdev->bd_disk->private_data;
>> +	down_write(&zram->lock);
>>  	zram_free_page(zram, index);
>> +	up_write(&zram->lock);
>>  	zram_stat64_inc(zram, &zram->stats.notify_free);
>>  }
>>
>> --
>> 1.8.1.2
>>
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