linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/7] mm: memcontrol: slab: fix obtain a reference to a freeing memcg

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri, 19 Mar 2021 11:26:54 -0700
From:   Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
To:     Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
Cc:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Xiongchun duan <duanxiongchun@...edance.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/7] mm: memcontrol: slab: fix obtain a reference to a
 freeing memcg

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 9:38 AM Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com> wrote:
>
> The rcu_read_lock/unlock only can guarantee that the memcg will not be
> freed, but it cannot guarantee the success of css_get (which is in the
> refill_stock when cached memcg changed) to memcg.
>
>   rcu_read_lock()
>   memcg = obj_cgroup_memcg(old)
>   __memcg_kmem_uncharge(memcg)
>       refill_stock(memcg)
>           if (stock->cached != memcg)
>               // css_get can change the ref counter from 0 back to 1.
>               css_get(&memcg->css)
>   rcu_read_unlock()
>
> This fix is very like the commit:
>
>   eefbfa7fd678 ("mm: memcg/slab: fix use after free in obj_cgroup_charge")
>
> Fix this by holding a reference to the memcg which is passed to the
> __memcg_kmem_uncharge() before calling __memcg_kmem_uncharge().
>
> Fixes: 3de7d4f25a74 ("mm: memcg/slab: optimize objcg stock draining")
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>

Good catch.

Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>