linux-kernel - Re: [Bug report] hash_name() may cross page boundary and trigger sleep in RCU context

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Message-ID: <33ab4aef-020e-49e7-8539-31bf78dac61a@huaweicloud.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:27:19 +0800
From: Zizhi Wo <wozizhi@...weicloud.com>
To: Zizhi Wo <wozizhi@...weicloud.com>, jack@...e.com, brauner@...nel.org,
 hch@....de, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux@...linux.org.uk,
 torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
 yangerkun@...wei.com, wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com, pangliyuan1@...wei.com,
 xieyuanbin1@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [Bug report] hash_name() may cross page boundary and trigger
 sleep in RCU context



在 2025/11/26 17:05, Zizhi Wo 写道:
> We're running into the following issue on an ARM32 platform with the linux
> 5.10 kernel:
> 
> [<c0300b78>] (__dabt_svc) from [<c0529cb8>] (link_path_walk.part.7+0x108/0x45c)
> [<c0529cb8>] (link_path_walk.part.7) from [<c052a948>] (path_openat+0xc4/0x10ec)
> [<c052a948>] (path_openat) from [<c052cf90>] (do_filp_open+0x9c/0x114)
> [<c052cf90>] (do_filp_open) from [<c0511e4c>] (do_sys_openat2+0x418/0x528)
> [<c0511e4c>] (do_sys_openat2) from [<c0513d98>] (do_sys_open+0x88/0xe4)
> [<c0513d98>] (do_sys_open) from [<c03000c0>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x58)
> ...
> [<c0315e34>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c030f2b0>] (show_stack+0x20/0x24)
> [<c030f2b0>] (show_stack) from [<c14239f4>] (dump_stack+0xd8/0xf8)
> [<c14239f4>] (dump_stack) from [<c038d188>] (___might_sleep+0x19c/0x1e4)
> [<c038d188>] (___might_sleep) from [<c031b6fc>] (do_page_fault+0x2f8/0x51c)
> [<c031b6fc>] (do_page_fault) from [<c031bb44>] (do_DataAbort+0x90/0x118)
> [<c031bb44>] (do_DataAbort) from [<c0300b78>] (__dabt_svc+0x58/0x80)
> ...
> 
> During the execution of hash_name()->load_unaligned_zeropad(), a potential
> memory access beyond the PAGE boundary may occur. For example, when the
> filename length is near the PAGE_SIZE boundary. This triggers a page fault,
> which leads to a call to do_page_fault()->mmap_read_trylock(). If we can't
> acquire the lock, we have to fall back to the mmap_read_lock() path, which
> calls might_sleep(). This breaks RCU semantics because path lookup occurs
> under an RCU read-side critical section. In linux-mainline, arm/arm64
> do_page_fault() still has this problem:
> 
> lock_mm_and_find_vma->get_mmap_lock_carefully->mmap_read_lock_killable.
> 
> And before commit bfcfaa77bdf0 ("vfs: use 'unsigned long' accesses for
> dcache name comparison and hashing"), hash_name accessed the name byte by
> byte.
> 
> To prevent load_unaligned_zeropad() from accessing beyond the valid memory
> region, we would need to intercept such cases beforehand? But doing so
> would require replicating the internal logic of load_unaligned_zeropad(),
> including handling endianness and constructing the correct value manually.
> Given that load_unaligned_zeropad() is used in many places across the
> kernel, we currently haven't found a good solution to address this cleanly.
> 
> What would be the recommended way to handle this situation? Would
> appreciate any feedback and guidance from the community. Thanks!
> 

As a detail, we enabled CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT and CONFIG_KFENCE, which
allowed us to catch the potential out-of-bounds access.

Thanks,
Zizhi Wo