Re: kernel BUG at /src/linux-dev/mm/mempolicy.c:1738! on v3.16-rc1

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On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 01:03:58PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2014, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 09:24:36AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > On Thu, 19 Jun 2014, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm suspecting that mbind_range() do something wrong around vma handling,
> > > > but I don't have enough luck yet. Anyone has an idea?
> > >
> > > Well memory policy data corrupted. This looks like you were trying to do
> > > page migration via mbind()?
> > 
> > Right.
> > 
> > > Could we get some more details as to what is
> > > going on here? Specifically the parameters passed to mbind would be
> > > interesting.
> > 
> > My view about the kernel behavior was in another email a few hours ago.
> > And as for what userspace did, I attach the reproducer below. It's simply
> > doing mbind(mode=MPOL_BIND, flags=MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL) on random address/length/node.
> 
> Thanks for the additional information earlier.  ext4, so no shmem
> shared mempolicy involved: that cuts down the bugspace considerably.
> 
> I agree from what you said that it looked like corrupt vm_area_struct
> and hence corrupt policy.
> 
> Here's an obvious patch to try, entirely untested - thanks for the
> reproducer, but I'd rather leave the testing to you.  Sounds like
> you have a useful fuzzer there: good catch.
> 
> 
> [PATCH] mm: fix crashes from mbind() merging vmas
> 
> v2.6.34's 9d8cebd4bcd7 ("mm: fix mbind vma merge problem") introduced
> vma merging to mbind(), but it should have also changed the convention
> of passing start vma from queue_pages_range() (formerly check_range())
> to new_vma_page(): vma merging may have already freed that structure,
> resulting in BUG at mm/mempolicy.c:1738 and probably worse crashes.
> 
> Fixes: 9d8cebd4bcd7 ("mm: fix mbind vma merge problem")
> Reported-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 2.6.34+

With your patch, the bug doesn't reproduce in one hour testing. I think
it's long enough because it took only a few minutes until the reproducer
triggered the bug without your patch.
So I think the problem was gone, thank you very much!

Tested-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> 
>  mm/mempolicy.c |   46 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
> 
> --- 3.16-rc1/mm/mempolicy.c	2014-06-16 00:28:55.116076530 -0700
> +++ linux/mm/mempolicy.c	2014-06-20 12:40:00.000204558 -0700
> @@ -656,19 +656,18 @@ static unsigned long change_prot_numa(st
>   * @nodes and @flags,) it's isolated and queued to the pagelist which is
>   * passed via @private.)
>   */
> -static struct vm_area_struct *
> +static int
>  queue_pages_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
>  		const nodemask_t *nodes, unsigned long flags, void *private)
>  {
> -	int err;
> -	struct vm_area_struct *first, *vma, *prev;
> -
> +	int err = 0;
> +	struct vm_area_struct *vma, *prev;
>  
> -	first = find_vma(mm, start);
> -	if (!first)
> -		return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);
> +	vma = find_vma(mm, start);
> +	if (!vma)
> +		return -EFAULT;
>  	prev = NULL;
> -	for (vma = first; vma && vma->vm_start < end; vma = vma->vm_next) {
> +	for (; vma && vma->vm_start < end; vma = vma->vm_next) {
>  		unsigned long endvma = vma->vm_end;
>  
>  		if (endvma > end)
> @@ -678,9 +677,9 @@ queue_pages_range(struct mm_struct *mm,
>  
>  		if (!(flags & MPOL_MF_DISCONTIG_OK)) {
>  			if (!vma->vm_next && vma->vm_end < end)
> -				return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);
> +				return -EFAULT;
>  			if (prev && prev->vm_end < vma->vm_start)
> -				return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);
> +				return -EFAULT;
>  		}
>  
>  		if (flags & MPOL_MF_LAZY) {
> @@ -694,15 +693,13 @@ queue_pages_range(struct mm_struct *mm,
>  
>  			err = queue_pages_pgd_range(vma, start, endvma, nodes,
>  						flags, private);
> -			if (err) {
> -				first = ERR_PTR(err);
> +			if (err)
>  				break;
> -			}
>  		}
>  next:
>  		prev = vma;
>  	}
> -	return first;
> +	return err;
>  }
>  
>  /*
> @@ -1156,16 +1153,17 @@ out:
>  
>  /*
>   * Allocate a new page for page migration based on vma policy.
> - * Start assuming that page is mapped by vma pointed to by @private.
> + * Start by assuming the page is mapped by the same vma as contains @start.
>   * Search forward from there, if not.  N.B., this assumes that the
>   * list of pages handed to migrate_pages()--which is how we get here--
>   * is in virtual address order.
>   */
> -static struct page *new_vma_page(struct page *page, unsigned long private, int **x)
> +static struct page *new_page(struct page *page, unsigned long start, int **x)
>  {
> -	struct vm_area_struct *vma = (struct vm_area_struct *)private;
> +	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
>  	unsigned long uninitialized_var(address);
>  
> +	vma = find_vma(current->mm, start);
>  	while (vma) {
>  		address = page_address_in_vma(page, vma);
>  		if (address != -EFAULT)
> @@ -1195,7 +1193,7 @@ int do_migrate_pages(struct mm_struct *m
>  	return -ENOSYS;
>  }
>  
> -static struct page *new_vma_page(struct page *page, unsigned long private, int **x)
> +static struct page *new_page(struct page *page, unsigned long start, int **x)
>  {
>  	return NULL;
>  }
> @@ -1205,7 +1203,6 @@ static long do_mbind(unsigned long start
>  		     unsigned short mode, unsigned short mode_flags,
>  		     nodemask_t *nmask, unsigned long flags)
>  {
> -	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
>  	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
>  	struct mempolicy *new;
>  	unsigned long end;
> @@ -1271,11 +1268,9 @@ static long do_mbind(unsigned long start
>  	if (err)
>  		goto mpol_out;
>  
> -	vma = queue_pages_range(mm, start, end, nmask,
> +	err = queue_pages_range(mm, start, end, nmask,
>  			  flags | MPOL_MF_INVERT, &pagelist);
> -
> -	err = PTR_ERR(vma);	/* maybe ... */
> -	if (!IS_ERR(vma))
> +	if (!err)
>  		err = mbind_range(mm, start, end, new);
>  
>  	if (!err) {
> @@ -1283,9 +1278,8 @@ static long do_mbind(unsigned long start
>  
>  		if (!list_empty(&pagelist)) {
>  			WARN_ON_ONCE(flags & MPOL_MF_LAZY);
> -			nr_failed = migrate_pages(&pagelist, new_vma_page,
> -					NULL, (unsigned long)vma,
> -					MIGRATE_SYNC, MR_MEMPOLICY_MBIND);
> +			nr_failed = migrate_pages(&pagelist, new_page, NULL,
> +				start, MIGRATE_SYNC, MR_MEMPOLICY_MBIND);
>  			if (nr_failed)
>  				putback_movable_pages(&pagelist);
>  		}
> 
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