linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/9] mm: khugepaged: close use-after-free race during shmem collapsing

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Message-ID: <20161118072907.GA18676@quack2.suse.cz>
Date:   Fri, 18 Nov 2016 08:29:07 +0100
From:   Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] mm: khugepaged: close use-after-free race during
 shmem collapsing

On Thu 17-11-16 14:11:30, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> When a radix tree iteration drops the tree lock, another thread might
> swoop in and free the node holding the current slot. The iteration
> needs to do another tree lookup from the current index to continue.
> 
> [kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com: re-lookup for replacement]
> Fixes: f3f0e1d2150b ("khugepaged: add support of collapse for tmpfs/shmem pages")
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>

The patch looks good. You can add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

								Honza

> ---
>  mm/khugepaged.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
> index 728d7790dc2d..bdfdab40a813 100644
> --- a/mm/khugepaged.c
> +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
> @@ -1401,6 +1401,9 @@ static void collapse_shmem(struct mm_struct *mm,
>  
>  		spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
>  
> +		slot = radix_tree_lookup_slot(&mapping->page_tree, index);
> +		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page != radix_tree_deref_slot_protected(slot,
> +					&mapping->tree_lock), page);
>  		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_mapped(page), page);
>  
>  		/*
> @@ -1424,6 +1427,7 @@ static void collapse_shmem(struct mm_struct *mm,
>  		radix_tree_replace_slot(slot,
>  				new_page + (index % HPAGE_PMD_NR));
>  
> +		slot = radix_tree_iter_next(&iter);
>  		index++;
>  		continue;
>  out_lru:
> @@ -1535,6 +1539,7 @@ static void collapse_shmem(struct mm_struct *mm,
>  			putback_lru_page(page);
>  			unlock_page(page);
>  			spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
> +			slot = radix_tree_iter_next(&iter);
>  		}
>  		VM_BUG_ON(nr_none);
>  		spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
> -- 
> 2.10.2
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR