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| author | Jing Xia <jing.xia.mail@gmail.com> | 2018-07-20 17:53:48 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-07-21 12:50:46 -0700 |
| commit | 9f15bde671355c351cf20d9f879004b234353100 (patch) | |
| tree | 4b898132d09c087cdc30f91b941dcaf4e22f9160 /mm | |
| parent | e1f1b1572e8db87a56609fd05bef76f98f0e456a (diff) | |
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mm: memcg: fix use after free in mem_cgroup_iter()
It was reported that a kernel crash happened in mem_cgroup_iter(), which
can be triggered if the legacy cgroup-v1 non-hierarchical mode is used.
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b6b6b6b8f
......
Call trace:
mem_cgroup_iter+0x2e0/0x6d4
shrink_zone+0x8c/0x324
balance_pgdat+0x450/0x640
kswapd+0x130/0x4b8
kthread+0xe8/0xfc
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
mem_cgroup_iter():
......
if (css_tryget(css)) <-- crash here
break;
......
The crashing reason is that mem_cgroup_iter() uses the memcg object whose
pointer is stored in iter->position, which has been freed before and
filled with POISON_FREE(0x6b).
And the root cause of the use-after-free issue is that
invalidate_reclaim_iterators() fails to reset the value of iter->position
to NULL when the css of the memcg is released in non- hierarchical mode.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1531994807-25639-1-git-send-email-jing.xia@unisoc.com
Fixes: 6df38689e0e9 ("mm: memcontrol: fix possible memcg leak due to interrupted reclaim")
Signed-off-by: Jing Xia <jing.xia.mail@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: <chunyan.zhang@unisoc.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memcontrol.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index e6f0d5ef320a..8c0280b3143e 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -850,7 +850,7 @@ static void invalidate_reclaim_iterators(struct mem_cgroup *dead_memcg) int nid; int i; - while ((memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg))) { + for (; memcg; memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg)) { for_each_node(nid) { mz = mem_cgroup_nodeinfo(memcg, nid); for (i = 0; i <= DEF_PRIORITY; i++) { |