From: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> Subject: writeback, cgroup: remove wb from offline list before releasing refcnt Boyang reported that the commit c22d70a162d3 ("writeback, cgroup: release dying cgwbs by switching attached inodes") causes the kernel to crash while running xfstests generic/256 on ext4 on aarch64 and ppc64le. [ 4366.380974] run fstests generic/256 at 2021-07-12 05:41:40 [ 4368.337078] EXT4-fs (vda3): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: . Quota mode: none. [ 4371.275986] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000 [ 4371.278210] Mem abort info: [ 4371.278880] ESR = 0x96000005 [ 4371.279603] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits [ 4371.280878] SET = 0, FnV = 0 [ 4371.281621] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 [ 4371.282396] FSC = 0x05: level 1 translation fault [ 4371.283635] Data abort info: [ 4371.284333] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000005 [ 4371.285246] CM = 0, WnR = 0 [ 4371.285975] user pgtable: 64k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=00000000b0502000 [ 4371.287640] [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000, pud=0000000000000000 [ 4371.290016] Internal error: Oops: 96000005 [#1] SMP [ 4371.291251] Modules linked in: dm_flakey dm_snapshot dm_bufio dm_zero dm_mod loop tls rpcsec_gss_krb5 auth_rpcgss nfsv4 dns_resolver nfs lockd grace fscache netfs rfkill sunrpc ext4 vfat fat mbcache jbd2 drm fuse xfs libcrc32c crct10dif_ce ghash_ce sha2_ce sha256_arm64 sha1_ce virtio_blk virtio_net net_failover virtio_console failover virtio_mmio aes_neon_bs [last unloaded: scsi_debug] [ 4371.300059] CPU: 0 PID: 408468 Comm: kworker/u8:5 Tainted: G X --------- --- 5.14.0-0.rc1.15.bx.el9.aarch64 #1 [ 4371.303009] Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 [ 4371.304685] Workqueue: events_unbound cleanup_offline_cgwbs_workfn [ 4371.306329] pstate: 004000c5 (nzcv daIF +PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--) [ 4371.307867] pc : cleanup_offline_cgwbs_workfn+0x320/0x394 [ 4371.309254] lr : cleanup_offline_cgwbs_workfn+0xe0/0x394 [ 4371.310597] sp : ffff80001554fd10 [ 4371.311443] x29: ffff80001554fd10 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 0000000000000001 [ 4371.313320] x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 00000000000000e0 x24: ffffd2a2fbe671a8 [ 4371.315159] x23: ffff80001554fd88 x22: ffffd2a2fbe67198 x21: ffffd2a2fc25a730 [ 4371.316945] x20: ffff210412bc3000 x19: ffff210412bc3280 x18: 0000000000000000 [ 4371.318690] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000000000000000 [ 4371.320437] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000030 x12: 0000000000000040 [ 4371.322444] x11: ffff210481572238 x10: ffff21048157223a x9 : ffffd2a2fa276c60 [ 4371.324243] x8 : ffff210484106b60 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 000000000007d18a [ 4371.326049] x5 : ffff210416a86400 x4 : ffff210412bc0280 x3 : 0000000000000000 [ 4371.327898] x2 : ffff80001554fd88 x1 : ffff210412bc0280 x0 : 0000000000000003 [ 4371.329748] Call trace: [ 4371.330372] cleanup_offline_cgwbs_workfn+0x320/0x394 [ 4371.331694] process_one_work+0x1f4/0x4b0 [ 4371.332767] worker_thread+0x184/0x540 [ 4371.333732] kthread+0x114/0x120 [ 4371.334535] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18 [ 4371.335440] Code: d63f0020 97f99963 17ffffa6 f8588263 (f9400061) [ 4371.337174] ---[ end trace e250fe289272792a ]--- [ 4371.338365] Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception [ 4371.339884] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs [ 4372.424137] SMP: failed to stop secondary CPUs 0-2 [ 4372.436894] Kernel Offset: 0x52a2e9fa0000 from 0xffff800010000000 [ 4372.438408] PHYS_OFFSET: 0xfff0defca0000000 [ 4372.439496] CPU features: 0x00200251,23200840 [ 4372.440603] Memory Limit: none [ 4372.441374] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception ]--- The problem happens when cgwb_release_workfn() races with cleanup_offline_cgwbs_workfn(): wb_tryget() in cleanup_offline_cgwbs_workfn() can be called after percpu_ref_exit() is cgwb_release_workfn(), which is basically a use-after-free error. Fix the problem by making removing the writeback structure from the offline list before releasing the percpu reference counter. It will guarantee that cleanup_offline_cgwbs_workfn() will not see and not access writeback structures which are about to be released. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210716201039.3762203-1-guro@xxxxxx Fixes: c22d70a162d3 ("writeback, cgroup: release dying cgwbs by switching attached inodes") Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> Reported-by: Boyang Xue <bxue@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Tested-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Murphy Zhou <jencce.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/backing-dev.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/backing-dev.c~writeback-cgroup-remove-wb-from-offline-list-before-releasing-refcnt +++ a/mm/backing-dev.c @@ -398,12 +398,12 @@ static void cgwb_release_workfn(struct w blkcg_unpin_online(blkcg); fprop_local_destroy_percpu(&wb->memcg_completions); - percpu_ref_exit(&wb->refcnt); spin_lock_irq(&cgwb_lock); list_del(&wb->offline_node); spin_unlock_irq(&cgwb_lock); + percpu_ref_exit(&wb->refcnt); wb_exit(wb); WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&wb->b_attached)); kfree_rcu(wb, rcu); _