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authorKefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>2022-08-27 19:19:59 +0800
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2022-09-11 20:26:04 -0700
commitb4a0215e11dcfe23a48c65c6d6c82c0c2c551a48 (patch)
treeca0dc9fe6b7e331e2db88204fb44ad268f1b025d /mm/vmscan.c
parent639118d1571f70b1157b4bb5ac574b0ab0f38099 (diff)
downloadlinux-b4a0215e11dcfe23a48c65c6d6c82c0c2c551a48.tar.gz
mm: fix null-ptr-deref in kswapd_is_running()
kswapd_run/stop() will set pgdat->kswapd to NULL, which could race with kswapd_is_running() in kcompactd(), kswapd_run/stop() kcompactd() kswapd_is_running() pgdat->kswapd // error or nomal ptr verify pgdat->kswapd // load non-NULL pgdat->kswapd pgdat->kswapd = NULL task_is_running(pgdat->kswapd) // Null pointer derefence KASAN reports the null-ptr-deref shown below, vmscan: Failed to start kswapd on node 0 ... BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in kcompactd+0x440/0x504 Read of size 8 at addr 0000000000000024 by task kcompactd0/37 CPU: 0 PID: 37 Comm: kcompactd0 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE 5.10.60 #1 Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 Call trace: dump_backtrace+0x0/0x394 show_stack+0x34/0x4c dump_stack+0x158/0x1e4 __kasan_report+0x138/0x140 kasan_report+0x44/0xdc __asan_load8+0x94/0xd0 kcompactd+0x440/0x504 kthread+0x1a4/0x1f0 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18 At present kswapd/kcompactd_run() and kswapd/kcompactd_stop() are protected by mem_hotplug_begin/done(), but without kcompactd(). There is no need to involve memory hotplug lock in kcompactd(), so let's add a new mutex to protect pgdat->kswapd accesses. Also, because the kcompactd task will check the state of kswapd task, it's better to call kcompactd_stop() before kswapd_stop() to reduce lock conflicts. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comments] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220827111959.186838-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c27
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index bb993b21953deb..02e720c8390188 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -4643,16 +4643,17 @@ void kswapd_run(int nid)
{
pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
- if (pgdat->kswapd)
- return;
-
- pgdat->kswapd = kthread_run(kswapd, pgdat, "kswapd%d", nid);
- if (IS_ERR(pgdat->kswapd)) {
- /* failure at boot is fatal */
- BUG_ON(system_state < SYSTEM_RUNNING);
- pr_err("Failed to start kswapd on node %d\n", nid);
- pgdat->kswapd = NULL;
+ pgdat_kswapd_lock(pgdat);
+ if (!pgdat->kswapd) {
+ pgdat->kswapd = kthread_run(kswapd, pgdat, "kswapd%d", nid);
+ if (IS_ERR(pgdat->kswapd)) {
+ /* failure at boot is fatal */
+ BUG_ON(system_state < SYSTEM_RUNNING);
+ pr_err("Failed to start kswapd on node %d\n", nid);
+ pgdat->kswapd = NULL;
+ }
}
+ pgdat_kswapd_unlock(pgdat);
}
/*
@@ -4661,12 +4662,16 @@ void kswapd_run(int nid)
*/
void kswapd_stop(int nid)
{
- struct task_struct *kswapd = NODE_DATA(nid)->kswapd;
+ pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
+ struct task_struct *kswapd;
+ pgdat_kswapd_lock(pgdat);
+ kswapd = pgdat->kswapd;
if (kswapd) {
kthread_stop(kswapd);
- NODE_DATA(nid)->kswapd = NULL;
+ pgdat->kswapd = NULL;
}
+ pgdat_kswapd_unlock(pgdat);
}
static int __init kswapd_init(void)