linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: memcg: fix use after free in mem_cgroup

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Date:   Thu, 19 Jul 2018 18:06:47 +0800
From:   Jing Xia <jing.xia.mail@...il.com>
To:     hannes@...xchg.org, mhocko@...nel.org, vdavydov.dev@...il.com
Cc:     chunyan.zhang@...soc.com, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm: memcg: fix use after free in mem_cgroup_iter()

It was reported that a kernel crash happened in mem_cgroup_iter(),
which can be triggered if the legacy cgroup-v1 non-hierarchical
mode is used.

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b6b6b6b8f
......
Call trace:
  mem_cgroup_iter+0x2e0/0x6d4
  shrink_zone+0x8c/0x324
  balance_pgdat+0x450/0x640
  kswapd+0x130/0x4b8
  kthread+0xe8/0xfc
  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

  mem_cgroup_iter():
      ......
      if (css_tryget(css))    <-- crash here
	    break;
      ......

The crashing reason is that mem_cgroup_iter() uses the memcg object
whose pointer is stored in iter->position, which has been freed before
and filled with POISON_FREE(0x6b).

And the root cause of the use-after-free issue is that
invalidate_reclaim_iterators() fails to reset the value of
iter->position to NULL when the css of the memcg is released in non-
hierarchical mode.

Signed-off-by: Jing Xia <jing.xia.mail@...il.com>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index e6f0d5e..8c0280b 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -850,7 +850,7 @@ static void invalidate_reclaim_iterators(struct mem_cgroup *dead_memcg)
 	int nid;
 	int i;

-	while ((memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg))) {
+	for (; memcg; memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg)) {
 		for_each_node(nid) {
 			mz = mem_cgroup_nodeinfo(memcg, nid);
 			for (i = 0; i <= DEF_PRIORITY; i++) {
-- 
1.9.1