linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.9 390/757] mm: memcg/slab: fix racy access to page->mem_cgroup in mem_cgroup_from

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Message-Id: <20201027135508.844925336@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:50:40 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.9 390/757] mm: memcg/slab: fix racy access to page->mem_cgroup in mem_cgroup_from_obj()

From: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>

[ Upstream commit 19b629c9795bfe67bf77be8fb611b84424b56d91 ]

mem_cgroup_from_obj() checks the lowest bit of the page->mem_cgroup
pointer to determine if the page has an attached obj_cgroup vector instead
of a regular memcg pointer.  If it's not set, it simple returns the
page->mem_cgroup value as a struct mem_cgroup pointer.

The commit 10befea91b61 ("mm: memcg/slab: use a single set of kmem_caches
for all allocations") changed the moment when this bit is set: if
previously it was set on the allocation of the slab page, now it can be
set well after, when the first accounted object is allocated on this page.

It opened a race: if page->mem_cgroup is set concurrently after the first
page_has_obj_cgroups(page) check, a pointer to the obj_cgroups array can
be returned as a memory cgroup pointer.

A simple check for page->mem_cgroup pointer for NULL before the
page_has_obj_cgroups() check fixes the race.  Indeed, if the pointer is
not NULL, it's either a simple mem_cgroup pointer or a pointer to
obj_cgroup vector.  The pointer can be asynchronously changed from NULL to
(obj_cgroup_vec | 0x1UL), but can't be changed from a valid memcg pointer
to objcg vector or back.

If the object passed to mem_cgroup_from_obj() is a slab object and
page->mem_cgroup is NULL, it means that the object is not accounted, so
the function must return NULL.

I've discovered the race looking at the code, so far I haven't seen it in
the wild.

Fixes: 10befea91b61 ("mm: memcg/slab: use a single set of kmem_caches for all allocations")
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200910022435.2773735-1-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 6877c765b8d03..b9688a4b1d550 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2887,6 +2887,17 @@ struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_from_obj(void *p)

 	page = virt_to_head_page(p);

+	/*
+	 * If page->mem_cgroup is set, it's either a simple mem_cgroup pointer
+	 * or a pointer to obj_cgroup vector. In the latter case the lowest
+	 * bit of the pointer is set.
+	 * The page->mem_cgroup pointer can be asynchronously changed
+	 * from NULL to (obj_cgroup_vec | 0x1UL), but can't be changed
+	 * from a valid memcg pointer to objcg vector or back.
+	 */
+	if (!page->mem_cgroup)
+		return NULL;
+
 	/*
 	 * Slab objects are accounted individually, not per-page.
 	 * Memcg membership data for each individual object is saved in
-- 
2.25.1