linux-kernel - Re: KASAN: use-after-free Write in page_counter

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Message-ID: <20200825150933.GB932571@cmpxchg.org>
Date:   Tue, 25 Aug 2020 11:09:33 -0400
From:   Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        syzbot <syzbot+b305848212deec86eabe@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com, Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: KASAN: use-after-free Write in page_counter_uncharge

On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 11:03:41AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From 73a40589cab12122170fb9f90222982e81d41423 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 10:44:58 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] memcg: fix use-after-free in uncharge_batch
> 
> syzbot has reported an use-after-free in the uncharge_batch path
> BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in instrument_atomic_write include/linux/instrumented.h:71 [inline]
> BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in atomic64_sub_return include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h:970 [inline]
> BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in atomic_long_sub_return include/asm-generic/atomic-long.h:113 [inline]
> BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in page_counter_cancel mm/page_counter.c:54 [inline]
> BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in page_counter_uncharge+0x3d/0xc0 mm/page_counter.c:155
> Write of size 8 at addr ffff8880371c0148 by task syz-executor.0/9304
> 
> CPU: 0 PID: 9304 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 5.8.0-syzkaller #0
> Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
> Call Trace:
>  __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
>  dump_stack+0x1f0/0x31e lib/dump_stack.c:118
>  print_address_description+0x66/0x620 mm/kasan/report.c:383
>  __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:513 [inline]
>  kasan_report+0x132/0x1d0 mm/kasan/report.c:530
>  check_memory_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:183 [inline]
>  check_memory_region+0x2b5/0x2f0 mm/kasan/generic.c:192
>  instrument_atomic_write include/linux/instrumented.h:71 [inline]
>  atomic64_sub_return include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h:970 [inline]
>  atomic_long_sub_return include/asm-generic/atomic-long.h:113 [inline]
>  page_counter_cancel mm/page_counter.c:54 [inline]
>  page_counter_uncharge+0x3d/0xc0 mm/page_counter.c:155
>  uncharge_batch+0x6c/0x350 mm/memcontrol.c:6764
>  uncharge_page+0x115/0x430 mm/memcontrol.c:6796
>  uncharge_list mm/memcontrol.c:6835 [inline]
>  mem_cgroup_uncharge_list+0x70/0xe0 mm/memcontrol.c:6877
>  release_pages+0x13a2/0x1550 mm/swap.c:911
>  tlb_batch_pages_flush mm/mmu_gather.c:49 [inline]
>  tlb_flush_mmu_free mm/mmu_gather.c:242 [inline]
>  tlb_flush_mmu+0x780/0x910 mm/mmu_gather.c:249
>  tlb_finish_mmu+0xcb/0x200 mm/mmu_gather.c:328
>  exit_mmap+0x296/0x550 mm/mmap.c:3185
>  __mmput+0x113/0x370 kernel/fork.c:1076
>  exit_mm+0x4cd/0x550 kernel/exit.c:483
>  do_exit+0x576/0x1f20 kernel/exit.c:793
>  do_group_exit+0x161/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:903
>  get_signal+0x139b/0x1d30 kernel/signal.c:2743
>  arch_do_signal+0x33/0x610 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:811
>  exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:135 [inline]
>  exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x8d/0x1b0 kernel/entry/common.c:166
>  syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x5e/0x1a0 kernel/entry/common.c:241
>  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
> 
> 1a3e1f40962c ("mm: memcontrol: decouple reference counting from page
> accounting") has reworked the memcg lifetime to be bound the the struct
> page rather than charges. It has also removed the css_put_many from
> uncharge_batch and that is causing the above splat. uncharge_batch is
> supposed to uncharge accumulated charges for all pages freed from the
> same memcg. The queuing is done by uncharge_page which however drops the
> memcg reference after it adds charges to the batch. If the current page
> happens to be the last one holding the reference for its memcg then the
> memcg is OK to go and the next page to be freed will trigger batched
> uncharge which needs to access the memcg which is gone already.
> 
> Fix the issue by taking a reference for the memcg in the current batch.
> 
> Fixes: 1a3e1f40962c ("mm: memcontrol: decouple reference counting from page accounting")
> Reported-by: syzbot+b305848212deec86eabe@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> Reported-by: syzbot+b5ea6fb6f139c8b9482b@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>

Nice catch! The fix looks correct - ug now holds a reference count for
its ug->memcg pointer.

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>