linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/5] mm: memcg/slab: Fix use after free in obj_cgroup

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Message-Id: <20201027080256.76497-3-songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Date:   Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:02:53 +0800
From:   Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
To:     hannes@...xchg.org, mhocko@...nel.org, vdavydov.dev@...il.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, shakeelb@...gle.com, guro@...com,
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Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/5] mm: memcg/slab: Fix use after free in obj_cgroup_charge

The rcu_read_lock/unlock only can guarantee that the memcg will
not be freed, but it cannot guarantee the success of css_get to
memcg. This can be happened when we reparent the memcg. So using
css_tryget instead of css_get.

Fixes: bf4f059954dc ("mm: memcg/slab: obj_cgroup API")
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index fcbd79c5023e..c0c27bee23ad 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -3223,8 +3223,10 @@ int obj_cgroup_charge(struct obj_cgroup *objcg, gfp_t gfp, size_t size)
 	 * independently later.
 	 */
 	rcu_read_lock();
+retry:
 	memcg = obj_cgroup_memcg(objcg);
-	css_get(&memcg->css);
+	if (!css_tryget(&memcg->css))
+		goto retry;
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	nr_pages = size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
-- 
2.20.1