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authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>2014-12-10 15:44:39 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-12-10 17:41:08 -0800
commite4bd6a0248b2a026e07c19995c41a4cb5a49d797 (patch)
tree7091ce7b0439f9a0f13dee3d81be296bb539b517 /mm/page-writeback.c
parentc164e038eee805147e95789dddb88ae3b3aca11c (diff)
downloadlinux-e4bd6a0248b2a026e07c19995c41a4cb5a49d797.tar.bz2
mm, memcg: fix potential undefined behaviour in page stat accounting
Since commit d7365e783edb ("mm: memcontrol: fix missed end-writeback page accounting") mem_cgroup_end_page_stat consumes locked and flags variables directly rather than via pointers which might trigger C undefined behavior as those variables are initialized only in the slow path of mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat. Although mem_cgroup_end_page_stat handles parameters correctly and touches them only when they hold a sensible value it is caller which loads a potentially uninitialized value which then might allow compiler to do crazy things. I haven't seen any warning from gcc and it seems that the current version (4.9) doesn't exploit this type undefined behavior but Sasha has reported the following: UBSan: Undefined behaviour in mm/rmap.c:1084:2 load of value 255 is not a valid value for type '_Bool' CPU: 4 PID: 8304 Comm: rngd Not tainted 3.18.0-rc2-next-20141029-sasha-00039-g77ed13d-dirty #1427 Call Trace: dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:52) ubsan_epilogue (lib/ubsan.c:159) __ubsan_handle_load_invalid_value (lib/ubsan.c:482) page_remove_rmap (mm/rmap.c:1084 mm/rmap.c:1096) unmap_page_range (./arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:27 include/linux/mm.h:463 mm/memory.c:1146 mm/memory.c:1258 mm/memory.c:1279 mm/memory.c:1303) unmap_single_vma (mm/memory.c:1348) unmap_vmas (mm/memory.c:1377 (discriminator 3)) exit_mmap (mm/mmap.c:2837) mmput (kernel/fork.c:659) do_exit (./arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h:168 kernel/exit.c:462 kernel/exit.c:747) do_group_exit (include/linux/sched.h:775 kernel/exit.c:873) SyS_exit_group (kernel/exit.c:901) tracesys_phase2 (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:529) Fix this by using pointer parameters for both locked and flags and be more robust for future compiler changes even though the current code is implemented correctly. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 19ceae87522d..d5d81f5384d1 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2357,7 +2357,7 @@ int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page *page)
dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITEBACK);
inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITTEN);
}
- mem_cgroup_end_page_stat(memcg, locked, memcg_flags);
+ mem_cgroup_end_page_stat(memcg, &locked, &memcg_flags);
return ret;
}
@@ -2399,7 +2399,7 @@ int __test_set_page_writeback(struct page *page, bool keep_write)
mem_cgroup_inc_page_stat(memcg, MEM_CGROUP_STAT_WRITEBACK);
inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_WRITEBACK);
}
- mem_cgroup_end_page_stat(memcg, locked, memcg_flags);
+ mem_cgroup_end_page_stat(memcg, &locked, &memcg_flags);
return ret;
}