On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Laura Abbott wrote: > To properly clear the slab on free with slab_want_init_on_free, > we walk the list of free objects using get_freepointer/set_freepointer. > The value we get from get_freepointer may not be valid. This > isn't an issue since an actual value will get written later > but this means there's a chance of triggering a bug if we use > this value with set_freepointer: > > [ 4.478342] kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:306! > [ 4.482437] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT PTI > [ 4.485750] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.2.0-05754-g6471384a #4 > [ 4.490635] RIP: 0010:kfree+0x58a/0x5c0 > [ 4.493679] Code: 48 83 05 78 37 51 02 01 0f 0b 48 83 05 7e 37 51 02 01 48 83 05 7e 37 51 02 01 48 83 05 7e 37 51 02 01 48 83 05 d6 37 51 02 01 <0f> 0b 48 83 05 d4 37 51 02 01 48 83 05 d4 37 51 02 01 48 83 05 d4 > [ 4.506827] RSP: 0000:ffffffff82603d90 EFLAGS: 00010002 > [ 4.510475] RAX: ffff8c3976c04320 RBX: ffff8c3976c04300 RCX: 0000000000000000 > [ 4.515420] RDX: ffff8c3976c04300 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8c3976c04320 > [ 4.520331] RBP: ffffffff82603db8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 > [ 4.525288] R10: ffff8c3976c04320 R11: ffffffff8289e1e0 R12: ffffd52cc8db0100 > [ 4.530180] R13: ffff8c3976c01a00 R14: ffffffff810f10d4 R15: ffff8c3976c04300 > [ 4.535079] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff8266b000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 > [ 4.540628] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 > [ 4.544593] CR2: ffff8c397ffff000 CR3: 0000000125020000 CR4: 00000000000406b0 > [ 4.549558] Call Trace: > [ 4.551266] apply_wqattrs_prepare+0x154/0x280 > [ 4.554357] apply_workqueue_attrs_locked+0x4e/0xe0 > [ 4.557728] apply_workqueue_attrs+0x36/0x60 > [ 4.560654] alloc_workqueue+0x25a/0x6d0 > [ 4.563381] ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1e3/0x500 > [ 4.566628] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x44/0x3f0 > [ 4.569875] workqueue_init_early+0x246/0x348 > [ 4.573025] start_kernel+0x3c7/0x7ec > [ 4.575558] x86_64_start_reservations+0x40/0x49 > [ 4.578738] x86_64_start_kernel+0xda/0xe4 > [ 4.581600] secondary_startup_64+0xb6/0xc0 > [ 4.584473] Modules linked in: > [ 4.586620] ---[ end trace f67eb9af4d8d492b ]--- > > Fix this by ensuring the value we set with set_freepointer is either NULL > or another value in the chain. > > Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
