From b4a0215e11dcfe23a48c65c6d6c82c0c2c551a48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kefeng Wang Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2022 19:19:59 +0800 Subject: 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 Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Muchun Song Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/compaction.c | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/compaction.c') diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index 640fa76228dd..262c4676b32c 100644 --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -1981,9 +1981,21 @@ static inline bool is_via_compact_memory(int order) return order == -1; } +/* + * Determine whether kswapd is (or recently was!) running on this node. + * + * pgdat_kswapd_lock() pins pgdat->kswapd, so a concurrent kswapd_stop() can't + * zero it. + */ static bool kswapd_is_running(pg_data_t *pgdat) { - return pgdat->kswapd && task_is_running(pgdat->kswapd); + bool running; + + pgdat_kswapd_lock(pgdat); + running = pgdat->kswapd && task_is_running(pgdat->kswapd); + pgdat_kswapd_unlock(pgdat); + + return running; } /* -- cgit v1.2.3