> On 14 Dec 2017, at 08:59, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 11:58:36 +0800 "Yan, Zheng" <zyan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> We recently got an Oops report:
>>
>> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
>> IP: jbd2__journal_start+0x38/0x1a2
>> [...]
>> Call Trace:
>> ext4_page_mkwrite+0x307/0x52b
>> _ext4_get_block+0xd8/0xd8
>> do_page_mkwrite+0x6e/0xd8
>> handle_mm_fault+0x686/0xf9b
>> mntput_no_expire+0x1f/0x21e
>> __do_page_fault+0x21d/0x465
>> dput+0x4a/0x2f7
>> page_fault+0x22/0x30
>> copy_user_generic_string+0x2c/0x40
>> copy_page_to_iter+0x8c/0x2b8
>> generic_file_read_iter+0x26e/0x845
>> timerqueue_del+0x31/0x90
>> ceph_read_iter+0x697/0xa33 [ceph]
>> hrtimer_cancel+0x23/0x41
>> futex_wait+0x1c8/0x24d
>> get_futex_key+0x32c/0x39a
>> __vfs_read+0xe0/0x130
>> vfs_read.part.1+0x6c/0x123
>> handle_mm_fault+0x831/0xf9b
>> __fget+0x7e/0xbf
>> SyS_read+0x4d/0xb5
>>
>> The reason is that page fault can happen when one filesystem copies
>> data from/to userspace, the filesystem may set current->journal_info.
>> If the userspace memory is mapped to a file on another filesystem,
>> the later filesystem may also want to use current->journal_info.
>>
>
> whoops.
>
> A cc:stable will be needed here...
>
> A filesystem doesn't "copy data from/to userspace". I assume here
> we're referring to a read() where the source is a pagecache page for
> filesystem A and the destination is a MAP_SHARED page in filesystem B?
>
> But in that case I don't see why filesystem A would have a live
> ->journal_info? It's just doing a read.
Background: when there are multiple cephfs clients read/write a file at time same time, read/write should go directly to object store daemon, using page cache is disabled.
ceph_read_iter() uses current->journal_info to pass context information to ceph_readpages(). ceph_readpages() needs to know if its caller has already gotten capability of using page cache (distinguish read from readahead/fadvise). If not, it tries getting the capability by itself. I checked other filesystem, btrfs probably suffers similar problem for its readpages. (verify_parent_transid() uses current->journal_info and it can be called by by btrfs_get_extent())
Regards
Yan, Zheng
>
> So can we please have more detailed info on the exact scenario here?
>
>> --- a/mm/memory.c
>> +++ b/mm/memory.c
>> @@ -2347,12 +2347,22 @@ static int do_page_mkwrite(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>> {
>> int ret;
>> struct page *page = vmf->page;
>> + void *old_journal_info = current->journal_info;
>> unsigned int old_flags = vmf->flags;
>>
>> + /*
>> + * If the fault happens during read_iter() copies data to
>> + * userspace, filesystem may have set current->journal_info.
>> + * If the userspace memory is mapped to a file on another
>> + * filesystem, page_mkwrite() of the later filesystem may
>> + * want to access/modify current->journal_info.
>> + */
>> + current->journal_info = NULL;
>> vmf->flags = FAULT_FLAG_WRITE|FAULT_FLAG_MKWRITE;
>>
>> ret = vmf->vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite(vmf);
>> - /* Restore original flags so that caller is not surprised */
>> + /* Restore original journal_info and flags */
>> + current->journal_info = old_journal_info;
>> vmf->flags = old_flags;
>> if (unlikely(ret & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE)))
>> return ret;
>> @@ -3191,9 +3201,20 @@ static int do_anonymous_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>> static int __do_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>> {
>> struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma;
>> + void *old_journal_info = current->journal_info;
>> int ret;
>>
>> + /*
>> + * If the fault happens during write_iter() copies data from
>> + * userspace, filesystem may have set current->journal_info.
>> + * If the userspace memory is mapped to a file on another
>> + * filesystem, fault handler of the later filesystem may want
>> + * to access/modify current->journal_info.
>> + */
>> + current->journal_info = NULL;
>> ret = vma->vm_ops->fault(vmf);
>> + /* Restore original journal_info */
>> + current->journal_info = old_journal_info;
>> if (unlikely(ret & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE | VM_FAULT_RETRY |
>> VM_FAULT_DONE_COW)))
>> return ret;
>
> Can you explain why you chose these two sites? Rather than, for
> example, way up in handle_mm_fault()?
>
> It's hard to believe that a fault handler will alter ->journal_info if
> it is handling a read fault, so perhaps we only need to do this for a
> write fault? Although such an optimization probably isn't worthwhile.
> The whole thing is only about three instructions.
>
>
