linux-kernel - A small window for a race condition in mm/rmap.c:page_lock_anon_vma

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Date:   Tue, 20 Dec 2016 09:32:27 +0000
From:   Dashi DS1 Cao <caods1@...ovo.com>
To:     "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: A small window for a race condition in
 mm/rmap.c:page_lock_anon_vma_read

I've collected four crash dumps with similar backtrace. 

PID: 247    TASK: ffff881fcfad8000  CPU: 14  COMMAND: "kswapd1"
 #0 [ffff881fcfad7978] machine_kexec at ffffffff81051e9b
 #1 [ffff881fcfad79d8] crash_kexec at ffffffff810f27e2
 #2 [ffff881fcfad7aa8] oops_end at ffffffff8163f448
 #3 [ffff881fcfad7ad0] die at ffffffff8101859b
 #4 [ffff881fcfad7b00] do_general_protection at ffffffff8163ed3e
 #5 [ffff881fcfad7b30] general_protection at ffffffff8163e5e8
    [exception RIP: down_read_trylock+9]
    RIP: ffffffff810aa9f9  RSP: ffff881fcfad7be0  RFLAGS: 00010286
    RAX: 0000000000000000  RBX: ffff882b47ddadc0  RCX: 0000000000000000
    RDX: 0000000000000000  RSI: 0000000000000000  RDI: 91550b2b32f5a3e8
    RBP: ffff881fcfad7be0   R8: ffffea00ecc28860   R9: ffff883fcffeae28
    R10: ffffffff81a691a0  R11: 0000000000000001  R12: ffff882b47ddadc1
    R13: ffffea00ecc28840  R14: 91550b2b32f5a3e8  R15: ffffea00ecc28840
    ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff  CS: 0010  SS: 0000
 #6 [ffff881fcfad7be8] page_lock_anon_vma_read at ffffffff811a3365
 #7 [ffff881fcfad7c18] page_referenced at ffffffff811a35e7
 #8 [ffff881fcfad7c90] shrink_active_list at ffffffff8117e8cc
 #9 [ffff881fcfad7d48] balance_pgdat at ffffffff81180288
#10 [ffff881fcfad7e20] kswapd at ffffffff81180813
#11 [ffff881fcfad7ec8] kthread at ffffffff810a5b8f
#12 [ffff881fcfad7f50] ret_from_fork at ffffffff81646a98

I suspect my customer hits into a small window of a race condition in mm/rmap.c: page_lock_anon_vma_read.
struct anon_vma *page_lock_anon_vma_read(struct page *page)
{
        struct anon_vma *anon_vma = NULL;
        struct anon_vma *root_anon_vma;
        unsigned long anon_mapping;

        rcu_read_lock();
        anon_mapping = (unsigned long)READ_ONCE(page->mapping);
        if ((anon_mapping & PAGE_MAPPING_FLAGS) != PAGE_MAPPING_ANON)
                goto out;
        if (!page_mapped(page))
                goto out;

        anon_vma = (struct anon_vma *) (anon_mapping - PAGE_MAPPING_ANON);
        root_anon_vma = READ_ONCE(anon_vma->root);
        if (down_read_trylock(&root_anon_vma->rwsem)) {
                /*
                 * If the page is still mapped, then this anon_vma is still
                 * its anon_vma, and holding the mutex ensures that it will
                 * not go away, see anon_vma_free().
                 */
                if (!page_mapped(page)) {
                        up_read(&root_anon_vma->rwsem);
                        anon_vma = NULL;
                }
                goto out;
        }
...
}

Between the time the two "page_mapped(page)" are checked, the address (anon_mapping - PAGE_MAPPING_ANON) is unmapped! However it seems that anon_vma->root could still be read in but the value is wild. So the kernel crashes in down_read_trylock. But it's weird that all the "struct page" has its member "_mapcount" still with value 0, not -1, in the four crashes.

Thanks,
Dashi Cao