The patch titled Subject: mm/memcontrol.c: fix use after free in mem_cgroup_iter() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-memcontrol-fix-use-after-free-in-mem_cgroup_iter.patch

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------------------------------------------------------ From: Miles Chen miles.chen@mediatek.com Subject: mm/memcontrol.c: fix use after free in mem_cgroup_iter()

This patch is sent to report an use after free in mem_cgroup_iter() after merging commit be2657752e9e ("mm: memcg: fix use after free in mem_cgroup_iter()").

I work with android kernel tree (4.9 & 4.14), and commit be2657752e9e ("mm: memcg: fix use after free in mem_cgroup_iter()") has been merged to the trees. However, I can still observe use after free issues addressed in the commit be2657752e9e. (on low-end devices, a few times this month)

backtrace: css_tryget <- crash here mem_cgroup_iter shrink_node shrink_zones do_try_to_free_pages try_to_free_pages __perform_reclaim __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim __alloc_pages_slowpath __alloc_pages_nodemask

To debug, I poisoned mem_cgroup before freeing it:

static void __mem_cgroup_free(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) for_each_node(node) free_mem_cgroup_per_node_info(memcg, node); free_percpu(memcg->stat); + /* poison memcg before freeing it */ + memset(memcg, 0x78, sizeof(struct mem_cgroup)); kfree(memcg); }

The coredump shows the position=0xdbbc2a00 is freed.

(gdb) p/x ((struct mem_cgroup_per_node *)0xe5009e00)->iter[8] $13 = {position = 0xdbbc2a00, generation = 0x2efd}

0xdbbc2a00: 0xdbbc2e00 0x00000000 0xdbbc2800 0x00000100 0xdbbc2a10: 0x00000200 0x78787878 0x00026218 0x00000000 0xdbbc2a20: 0xdcad6000 0x00000001 0x78787800 0x00000000 0xdbbc2a30: 0x78780000 0x00000000 0x0068fb84 0x78787878 0xdbbc2a40: 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x78787878 0xe3fa5cc0 0xdbbc2a50: 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x00000000 0x00000000 0xdbbc2a60: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0xdbbc2a70: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0xdbbc2a80: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0xdbbc2a90: 0x00000001 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00100000 0xdbbc2aa0: 0x00000001 0xdbbc2ac8 0x00000000 0x00000000 0xdbbc2ab0: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0xdbbc2ac0: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0xe5b02618 0x00001000 0xdbbc2ad0: 0x00000000 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x78787878 0xdbbc2ae0: 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x78787878 0xdbbc2af0: 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x78787878 0xdbbc2b00: 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x78787878 0xdbbc2b10: 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x78787878 0xdbbc2b20: 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x78787878 0xdbbc2b30: 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x78787878 0xdbbc2b40: 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x78787878 0xdbbc2b50: 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x78787878 0xdbbc2b60: 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x78787878 0xdbbc2b70: 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x78787878 0xdbbc2b80: 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x00000000 0x78787878 0xdbbc2b90: 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x78787878 0xdbbc2ba0: 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x78787878 0x78787878

In the reclaim path, try_to_free_pages() does not setup sc.target_mem_cgroup and sc is passed to do_try_to_free_pages(), ..., shrink_node().

In mem_cgroup_iter(), root is set to root_mem_cgroup because sc->target_mem_cgroup is NULL. It is possible to assign a memcg to root_mem_cgroup.nodeinfo.iter in mem_cgroup_iter().

try_to_free_pages struct scan_control sc = {...}, target_mem_cgroup is 0x0; do_try_to_free_pages shrink_zones shrink_node mem_cgroup *root = sc->target_mem_cgroup; memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(root, NULL, &reclaim); mem_cgroup_iter() if (!root) root = root_mem_cgroup; ...

css = css_next_descendant_pre(css, &root->css); memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(css); cmpxchg(&iter->position, pos, memcg);

My device uses memcg non-hierarchical mode. When we release a memcg: invalidate_reclaim_iterators() reaches only dead_memcg and its parents. If non-hierarchical mode is used, invalidate_reclaim_iterators() never reaches root_mem_cgroup.

static void invalidate_reclaim_iterators(struct mem_cgroup *dead_memcg) { struct mem_cgroup *memcg = dead_memcg;

for (; memcg; memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg) ... }

So the use after free scenario looks like:

CPU1 CPU2

try_to_free_pages do_try_to_free_pages shrink_zones shrink_node mem_cgroup_iter() if (!root) root = root_mem_cgroup; ... css = css_next_descendant_pre(css, &root->css); memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(css); cmpxchg(&iter->position, pos, memcg);

invalidate_reclaim_iterators(memcg); ... __mem_cgroup_free() kfree(memcg);

try_to_free_pages do_try_to_free_pages shrink_zones shrink_node mem_cgroup_iter() if (!root) root = root_mem_cgroup; ... mz = mem_cgroup_nodeinfo(root, reclaim->pgdat->node_id); iter = &mz->iter[reclaim->priority]; pos = READ_ONCE(iter->position); css_tryget(&pos->css) <- use after free

To avoid this, we should also invalidate root_mem_cgroup.nodeinfo.iter in invalidate_reclaim_iterators().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190730015729.4406-1-miles.chen@mediatek.com Fixes: 5ac8fb31ad2e ("mm: memcontrol: convert reclaim iterator to simple css refcounting") Signed-off-by: Miles Chen miles.chen@mediatek.com Acked-by: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Cc: Johannes Weiner hannes@cmpxchg.org Cc: Vladimir Davydov vdavydov.dev@gmail.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---

mm/memcontrol.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/memcontrol.c~mm-memcontrol-fix-use-after-free-in-mem_cgroup_iter +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -1130,26 +1130,45 @@ void mem_cgroup_iter_break(struct mem_cg css_put(&prev->css); }

-static void invalidate_reclaim_iterators(struct mem_cgroup *dead_memcg) +static void __invalidate_reclaim_iterators(struct mem_cgroup *from, + struct mem_cgroup *dead_memcg) { - struct mem_cgroup *memcg = dead_memcg; struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_iter *iter; struct mem_cgroup_per_node *mz; int nid; int i;

- for (; memcg; memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg)) { - for_each_node(nid) { - mz = mem_cgroup_nodeinfo(memcg, nid); - for (i = 0; i <= DEF_PRIORITY; i++) { - iter = &mz->iter[i]; - cmpxchg(&iter->position, - dead_memcg, NULL); - } + for_each_node(nid) { + mz = mem_cgroup_nodeinfo(from, nid); + for (i = 0; i <= DEF_PRIORITY; i++) { + iter = &mz->iter[i]; + cmpxchg(&iter->position, + dead_memcg, NULL); } } }

+static void invalidate_reclaim_iterators(struct mem_cgroup *dead_memcg) +{ + struct mem_cgroup *memcg = dead_memcg; + struct mem_cgroup *last; + + do { + __invalidate_reclaim_iterators(memcg, dead_memcg); + last = memcg; + } while (memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg)); + + /* + * When cgruop1 non-hierarchy mode is used, + * parent_mem_cgroup() does not walk all the way up to the + * cgroup root (root_mem_cgroup). So we have to handle + * dead_memcg from cgroup root separately. + */ + if (last != root_mem_cgroup) + __invalidate_reclaim_iterators(root_mem_cgroup, + dead_memcg); +} + /** * mem_cgroup_scan_tasks - iterate over tasks of a memory cgroup hierarchy * @memcg: hierarchy root _

Patches currently in -mm which might be from miles.chen@mediatek.com are

mm-memcontrol-fix-use-after-free-in-mem_cgroup_iter.patch