linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: kmem: fix a NULL pointer dereference in obj_stock_flush

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Message-ID: <CAJD7tkZRLsubybPesf65t1ATEksTtif8uztAFZ-gVmYCnjw0Bg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 21 Apr 2023 15:16:02 -0700
From:   Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>
To:     Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        syzbot+774c29891415ab0fd29d@...kaller.appspotmail.com,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: kmem: fix a NULL pointer dereference in obj_stock_flush_required()

On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 10:41 AM Roman Gushchin
<roman.gushchin@...ux.dev> wrote:
>
> KCSAN found an issue in obj_stock_flush_required():
> stock->cached_objcg can be reset between the check and dereference:
>
> ==================================================================
> BUG: KCSAN: data-race in drain_all_stock / drain_obj_stock
>
> write to 0xffff888237c2a2f8 of 8 bytes by task 19625 on cpu 0:
>  drain_obj_stock+0x408/0x4e0 mm/memcontrol.c:3306
>  refill_obj_stock+0x9c/0x1e0 mm/memcontrol.c:3340
>  obj_cgroup_uncharge+0xe/0x10 mm/memcontrol.c:3408
>  memcg_slab_free_hook mm/slab.h:587 [inline]
>  __cache_free mm/slab.c:3373 [inline]
>  __do_kmem_cache_free mm/slab.c:3577 [inline]
>  kmem_cache_free+0x105/0x280 mm/slab.c:3602
>  __d_free fs/dcache.c:298 [inline]
>  dentry_free fs/dcache.c:375 [inline]
>  __dentry_kill+0x422/0x4a0 fs/dcache.c:621
>  dentry_kill+0x8d/0x1e0
>  dput+0x118/0x1f0 fs/dcache.c:913
>  __fput+0x3bf/0x570 fs/file_table.c:329
>  ____fput+0x15/0x20 fs/file_table.c:349
>  task_work_run+0x123/0x160 kernel/task_work.c:179
>  resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:49 [inline]
>  exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xcf/0xe0 kernel/entry/common.c:171
>  exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x6a/0xa0 kernel/entry/common.c:203
>  __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:285 [inline]
>  syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x26/0x140 kernel/entry/common.c:296
>  do_syscall_64+0x4d/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86
>  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
>
> read to 0xffff888237c2a2f8 of 8 bytes by task 19632 on cpu 1:
>  obj_stock_flush_required mm/memcontrol.c:3319 [inline]
>  drain_all_stock+0x174/0x2a0 mm/memcontrol.c:2361
>  try_charge_memcg+0x6d0/0xd10 mm/memcontrol.c:2703
>  try_charge mm/memcontrol.c:2837 [inline]
>  mem_cgroup_charge_skmem+0x51/0x140 mm/memcontrol.c:7290
>  sock_reserve_memory+0xb1/0x390 net/core/sock.c:1025
>  sk_setsockopt+0x800/0x1e70 net/core/sock.c:1525
>  udp_lib_setsockopt+0x99/0x6c0 net/ipv4/udp.c:2692
>  udp_setsockopt+0x73/0xa0 net/ipv4/udp.c:2817
>  sock_common_setsockopt+0x61/0x70 net/core/sock.c:3668
>  __sys_setsockopt+0x1c3/0x230 net/socket.c:2271
>  __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2282 [inline]
>  __se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2279 [inline]
>  __x64_sys_setsockopt+0x66/0x80 net/socket.c:2279
>  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
>  do_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
>  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
>
> value changed: 0xffff8881382d52c0 -> 0xffff888138893740
>
> Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
> CPU: 1 PID: 19632 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 6.3.0-rc2-syzkaller-00387-g534293368afa #0
> Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/02/2023
>
> Fix it by reading the cached_objcg with READ_ONCE().

IIUC reading an outdated objcg is fine here, and the real problem is a
potential NULL dereference, which isn't shown by this report. Is this
correct?

>
> Fixes: bf4f059954dc ("mm: memcg/slab: obj_cgroup API")
> Reported-by: syzbot+774c29891415ab0fd29d@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CACT4Y+ZfucZhM60YPphWiCLJr6+SGFhT+jjm8k1P-a_8Kkxsjg@mail.gmail.com/T/#t
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>
> ---
>  mm/memcontrol.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 5abffe6f8389..9426a1ddc190 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -3314,10 +3314,11 @@ static struct obj_cgroup *drain_obj_stock(struct memcg_stock_pcp *stock)
>  static bool obj_stock_flush_required(struct memcg_stock_pcp *stock,
>                                      struct mem_cgroup *root_memcg)
>  {
> +       struct obj_cgroup *objcg = READ_ONCE(stock->cached_objcg);
>         struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
>
> -       if (stock->cached_objcg) {
> -               memcg = obj_cgroup_memcg(stock->cached_objcg);
> +       if (objcg) {
> +               memcg = obj_cgroup_memcg(objcg);
>                 if (memcg && mem_cgroup_is_descendant(memcg, root_memcg))
>                         return true;
>         }
> --
> 2.40.0
>
>