When doing slub_debug test, kfence's 'test_memcache_typesafe_by_rcu'
kunit test case cause a use-after-free error:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in kobject_del+0x14/0x30
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888007679090 by task kunit_try_catch/261
CPU: 1 PID: 261 Comm: kunit_try_catch Tainted: G B N 6.0.0-rc5-next-20220916 #17
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x48
print_address_description.constprop.0+0x87/0x2a5
print_report+0x103/0x1ed
kasan_report+0xb7/0x140
kobject_del+0x14/0x30
kmem_cache_destroy+0x130/0x170
test_exit+0x1a/0x30
kunit_try_run_case+0xad/0xc0
kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x26/0x50
kthread+0x17b/0x1b0
</TASK>
The cause is inside kmem_cache_destroy():
kmem_cache_destroy
acquire lock/mutex
shutdown_cache
schedule_work(kmem_cache_release) (if RCU flag set)
release lock/mutex
kmem_cache_release (if RCU flag set)
in some certain timing, the scheduled work could be run before
the next RCU flag checking which will get a wrong state.
Fix it by caching the RCU flag inside protected area, just like 'refcnt'
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@xxxxxxxxx>
---
note:
The error only happens on linux-next tree, and not in Linus' tree,
which already has Waiman's commit:
0495e337b703 ("mm/slab_common: Deleting kobject in kmem_cache_destroy()
without holding slab_mutex/cpu_hotplug_lock")
mm/slab_common.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
index 07b948288f84..ccc02573588f 100644
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -475,6 +475,7 @@ void slab_kmem_cache_release(struct kmem_cache *s)
void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache *s)
{
int refcnt;
+ bool rcu_set;
if (unlikely(!s) || !kasan_check_byte(s))
return;
@@ -482,6 +483,8 @@ void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache *s)
cpus_read_lock();
mutex_lock(&slab_mutex);
+ rcu_set = s->flags & SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU;
+
refcnt = --s->refcount;
if (refcnt)
goto out_unlock;
@@ -492,7 +495,7 @@ void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache *s)
out_unlock:
mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex);
cpus_read_unlock();
- if (!refcnt && !(s->flags & SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU))
+ if (!refcnt && !rcu_set)
kmem_cache_release(s);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_destroy);
--
2.34.1
