From 59ea6d06cfa9247b586a695c21f94afa7183af74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrea Arcangeli Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 15:56:11 -0700 Subject: coredump: fix race condition between collapse_huge_page() and core dumping When fixing the race conditions between the coredump and the mmap_sem holders outside the context of the process, we focused on mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() callers in 04f5866e41fb70 ("coredump: fix race condition between mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and core dumping"), but those aren't the only cases where the mmap_sem can be taken outside of the context of the process as Michal Hocko noticed while backporting that commit to older -stable kernels. If mmgrab() is called in the context of the process, but then the mm_count reference is transferred outside the context of the process, that can also be a problem if the mmap_sem has to be taken for writing through that mm_count reference. khugepaged registration calls mmgrab() in the context of the process, but the mmap_sem for writing is taken later in the context of the khugepaged kernel thread. collapse_huge_page() after taking the mmap_sem for writing doesn't modify any vma, so it's not obvious that it could cause a problem to the coredump, but it happens to modify the pmd in a way that breaks an invariant that pmd_trans_huge_lock() relies upon. collapse_huge_page() needs the mmap_sem for writing just to block concurrent page faults that call pmd_trans_huge_lock(). Specifically the invariant that "!pmd_trans_huge()" cannot become a "pmd_trans_huge()" doesn't hold while collapse_huge_page() runs. The coredump will call __get_user_pages() without mmap_sem for reading, which eventually can invoke a lockless page fault which will need a functional pmd_trans_huge_lock(). So collapse_huge_page() needs to use mmget_still_valid() to check it's not running concurrently with the coredump... as long as the coredump can invoke page faults without holding the mmap_sem for reading. This has "Fixes: khugepaged" to facilitate backporting, but in my view it's more a bug in the coredump code that will eventually have to be rewritten to stop invoking page faults without the mmap_sem for reading. So the long term plan is still to drop all mmget_still_valid(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190607161558.32104-1-aarcange@redhat.com Fixes: ba76149f47d8 ("thp: khugepaged") Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Reported-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/khugepaged.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c index a335f7c1fac4..0f7419938008 100644 --- a/mm/khugepaged.c +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c @@ -1004,6 +1004,9 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm, * handled by the anon_vma lock + PG_lock. */ down_write(&mm->mmap_sem); + result = SCAN_ANY_PROCESS; + if (!mmget_still_valid(mm)) + goto out; result = hugepage_vma_revalidate(mm, address, &vma); if (result) goto out; -- cgit