On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 03:45:13PM +0800, qiwuchen55@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: chenqiwu <chenqiwu@xxxxxxxxxx> > > When finding all the mapping vmas for an anon page by anon_vma, there > is a panic risk that one mapping vma or its vm_mm has been released by > someone. What? Who would be able to release the VMA or the mm_struct? We hold anon_vma lock. It doesn't make sense to me. Something else is broken. > Like the following crash during kswapd reclaiming pages: > > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address > 00000048 > PC is at page_vma_mapped_walk+0x54/0x16c > LR is at page_referenced_one+0x44/0x140 > [......] > CPU: 1 PID: 161 Comm: kswapd0 > Call trace: > [<ffffff9a080832d0>] el1_da+0x24/0x3c > [<ffffff9a0823ea18>] page_vma_mapped_walk+0x54/0x16c > [<ffffff9a0823fd8c>] page_referenced_one+0x44/0x140 > [<ffffff9a08240ef0>] rmap_walk_anon+0x124/0x168 > [<ffffff9a0823fcfc>] page_referenced+0x144/0x190 > [<ffffff9a08213e6c>] shrink_active_list+0x25c/0x478 > [<ffffff9a082126c8>] kswapd+0x7b0/0x9c8 > [<ffffff9a080daffc>] kthread+0x154/0x18c > [<ffffff9a0808563c>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18 > > The PC is pointed to the following code line: > bool page_vma_mapped_walk(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw) > { > struct mm_struct *mm = pvmw->vma->vm_mm; > ...... > pgd = pgd_offset(mm, pvmw->address); //PC > ...... > } > > Because the current pvmw->vma->vm_mm is a kernel NULL pointer, which > causing crash when pgd_offset() dereferences the mm pointer. > > This patch fixes the problem by ensuring that both the mapping vma > and its vm_mm are valid. If not, we just continue to traverse the > anon_vma->rb_root to avoid the potential junk pointer dereference. > > Signed-off-by: chenqiwu <chenqiwu@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > mm/rmap.c | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c > index b3e3819..fc42ca2 100644 > --- a/mm/rmap.c > +++ b/mm/rmap.c > @@ -1863,6 +1863,9 @@ static void rmap_walk_anon(struct page *page, struct rmap_walk_control *rwc, > if (rwc->invalid_vma && rwc->invalid_vma(vma, rwc->arg)) > continue; > > + if (!vma && !vma->vm_mm) > + continue; > + Even if the premis of the patch is true, 'vma' got used twice in the loop iteration before you check if it's non-NULL. > if (!rwc->rmap_one(page, vma, address, rwc->arg)) > break; > if (rwc->done && rwc->done(page)) > -- > 1.9.1 > > -- Kirill A. Shutemov