On 26.08.22 08:56, Charan Teja Kalla wrote: > The below is one path where race between page_ext and offline of the > respective memory blocks will cause use-after-free on the access of > page_ext structure. > > process1 process2 > --------- --------- > a)doing /proc/page_owner doing memory offline > through offline_pages. > > b)PageBuddy check is failed > thus proceed to get the > page_owner information > through page_ext access. > page_ext = lookup_page_ext(page); > > migrate_pages(); > ................. > Since all pages are successfully > migrated as part of the offline > operation,send MEM_OFFLINE notification > where for page_ext it calls: > offline_page_ext()--> > __free_page_ext()--> > free_page_ext()--> > vfree(ms->page_ext) > mem_section->page_ext = NULL > > c) Check for the PAGE_EXT flags > in the page_ext->flags access > results into the use-after-free(leading > to the translation faults). > > As mentioned above, there is really no synchronization between page_ext > access and its freeing in the memory_offline. > > The memory offline steps(roughly) on a memory block is as below: > 1) Isolate all the pages > 2) while(1) > try free the pages to buddy.(->free_list[MIGRATE_ISOLATE]) > 3) delete the pages from this buddy list. > 4) Then free page_ext.(Note: The struct page is still alive as it is > freed only during hot remove of the memory which frees the memmap, which > steps the user might not perform). > > This design leads to the state where struct page is alive but the struct > page_ext is freed, where the later is ideally part of the former which > just representing the page_flags (check [3] for why this design is > chosen). > > The above mentioned race is just one example __but the problem persists > in the other paths too involving page_ext->flags access(eg: > page_is_idle())__. > > Fix all the paths where offline races with page_ext access by > maintaining synchronization with rcu lock and is achieved in 3 steps: > 1) Invalidate all the page_ext's of the sections of a memory block by > storing a flag in the LSB of mem_section->page_ext. > > 2) Wait till all the existing readers to finish working with the > ->page_ext's with synchronize_rcu(). Any parallel process that starts > after this call will not get page_ext, through lookup_page_ext(), for > the block parallel offline operation is being performed. > > 3) Now safely free all sections ->page_ext's of the block on which > offline operation is being performed. > > Note: If synchronize_rcu() takes time then optimizations can be done in > this path through call_rcu()[2]. > > Thanks to David Hildenbrand for his views/suggestions on the initial > discussion[1] and Pavan kondeti for various inputs on this patch. > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/59edde13-4167-8550-86f0-11fc67882107@xxxxxxxxxxx/ > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/a26ce299-aed1-b8ad-711e-a49e82bdd180@xxxxxxxxxxx/T/#u > [3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/6fa6b7aa-731e-891c-3efb-a03d6a700efa@xxxxxxxxxx/ > > Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> > Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@xxxxxxxxxxx> > --- Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks! -- Thanks, David / dhildenb
