From: Ilya Lipnitskiy ilya.lipnitskiy@gmail.com
commit e720e7d0e983bf05de80b231bccc39f1487f0f16 upstream.
There are code paths that rely on zero_pfn to be fully initialized before core_initcall. For example, wq_sysfs_init() is a core_initcall function that eventually results in a call to kernel_execve, which causes a page fault with a subsequent mmput. If zero_pfn is not initialized by then it may not get cleaned up properly and result in an error:
BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:(ptrval) type:MM_ANONPAGES val:1
Here is an analysis of the race as seen on a MIPS device. On this particular MT7621 device (Ubiquiti ER-X), zero_pfn is PFN 0 until initialized, at which point it becomes PFN 5120:
1. wq_sysfs_init calls into kobject_uevent_env at core_initcall: kobject_uevent_env+0x7e4/0x7ec kset_register+0x68/0x88 bus_register+0xdc/0x34c subsys_virtual_register+0x34/0x78 wq_sysfs_init+0x1c/0x4c do_one_initcall+0x50/0x1a8 kernel_init_freeable+0x230/0x2c8 kernel_init+0x10/0x100 ret_from_kernel_thread+0x14/0x1c
2. kobject_uevent_env() calls call_usermodehelper_exec() which executes kernel_execve asynchronously.
3. Memory allocations in kernel_execve cause a page fault, bumping the MM reference counter: add_mm_counter_fast+0xb4/0xc0 handle_mm_fault+0x6e4/0xea0 __get_user_pages.part.78+0x190/0x37c __get_user_pages_remote+0x128/0x360 get_arg_page+0x34/0xa0 copy_string_kernel+0x194/0x2a4 kernel_execve+0x11c/0x298 call_usermodehelper_exec_async+0x114/0x194
4. In case zero_pfn has not been initialized yet, zap_pte_range does not decrement the MM_ANONPAGES RSS counter and the BUG message is triggered shortly afterwards when __mmdrop checks the ref counters: __mmdrop+0x98/0x1d0 free_bprm+0x44/0x118 kernel_execve+0x160/0x1d8 call_usermodehelper_exec_async+0x114/0x194 ret_from_kernel_thread+0x14/0x1c
To avoid races such as described above, initialize init_zero_pfn at early_initcall level. Depending on the architecture, ZERO_PAGE is either constant or gets initialized even earlier, at paging_init, so there is no issue with initializing zero_pfn earlier.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CALCv0x2YqOXEAy2Q=hafjhHCtTHVodChv1qpM=niAXOpqEbt7... Signed-off-by: Ilya Lipnitskiy ilya.lipnitskiy@gmail.com Cc: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" ebiederm@xmission.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Tested-by: 周琰杰 (Zhou Yanjie) zhouyanjie@wanyeetech.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- mm/memory.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ static int __init init_zero_pfn(void) zero_pfn = page_to_pfn(ZERO_PAGE(0)); return 0; } -core_initcall(init_zero_pfn); +early_initcall(init_zero_pfn);
#if defined(SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING)