linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: page_alloc: fix page_poison=1 / INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT

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Date:   Sat, 17 Jul 2021 19:18:42 +0100
From:   Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@...too.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, bowsingbetee@...me
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: page_alloc: fix page_poison=1 /
 INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON interaction

On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 19:00:51 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 22:58:16 +0100 Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@...too.org> wrote:
> 
> > To reproduce the failure we need the following system:
> >   - kernel command: page_poison=1 init_on_free=0 init_on_alloc=0
> >   - kernel config:
> >     * CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON=y
> >     * CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON=y
> >     * CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING=y
> > 
> >     0000000085629bdd: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> >     0000000022861832: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> >     00000000c597f5b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> >     CPU: 11 PID: 15195 Comm: bash Kdump: loaded Tainted: G     U     O      5.13.1-gentoo-x86_64 #1
> >     Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/PRIME Z370-A, BIOS 2801 01/13/2021
> >     Call Trace:
> >      dump_stack+0x64/0x7c
> >      __kernel_unpoison_pages.cold+0x48/0x84
> >      post_alloc_hook+0x60/0xa0
> >      get_page_from_freelist+0xdb8/0x1000
> >      __alloc_pages+0x163/0x2b0
> >      __get_free_pages+0xc/0x30
> >      pgd_alloc+0x2e/0x1a0
> >      ? dup_mm+0x37/0x4f0
> >      mm_init+0x185/0x270
> >      dup_mm+0x6b/0x4f0
> >      ? __lock_task_sighand+0x35/0x70
> >      copy_process+0x190d/0x1b10
> >      kernel_clone+0xba/0x3b0
> >      __do_sys_clone+0x8f/0xb0
> >      do_syscall_64+0x68/0x80
> >      ? do_syscall_64+0x11/0x80
> >      entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
> > 
> > Before the 51cba1eb ("init_on_alloc: Optimize static branches")
> > init_on_alloc never enabled static branch by default. It could
> > only be enabed explicitly by init_mem_debugging_and_hardening().
> > 
> > But after the 51cba1eb static branch could already be enabled
> > by default. There was no code to ever disable it. That caused
> > page_poison=1 / init_on_free=1 conflict.
> > 
> > This change extends init_mem_debugging_and_hardening() to also
> > disable static branch disabling.
> > 
> > ...
> >
> > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > @@ -840,18 +840,22 @@ void init_mem_debugging_and_hardening(void)
> >  	}
> >  #endif
> >  
> > -	if (_init_on_alloc_enabled_early) {
> > -		if (page_poisoning_requested)
> > +	if (_init_on_alloc_enabled_early ||
> > +	    IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON)) {
> > +		if (page_poisoning_requested) {
> >  			pr_info("mem auto-init: CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING is on, "
> >  				"will take precedence over init_on_alloc\n");
> > -		else
> > +			static_branch_disable(&init_on_alloc);
> > +		} else
> >  			static_branch_enable(&init_on_alloc);
> >  	}
> > -	if (_init_on_free_enabled_early) {
> > -		if (page_poisoning_requested)
> > +	if (_init_on_free_enabled_early ||
> > +	    IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON)) {
> > +		if (page_poisoning_requested) {
> >  			pr_info("mem auto-init: CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING is on, "
> >  				"will take precedence over init_on_free\n");
> > -		else
> > +			static_branch_disable(&init_on_free);
> > +		} else
> >  			static_branch_enable(&init_on_free);
> >  	}
> >    
> 
> I'm thinking this is sufficiently serious and sufficiently reported to
> warrant a cc:stable backport.  Agree?

I agree. The patch might be tricky to apply as is too far back. But current
release should be fine.


-- 

  Sergei