The patch titled Subject: mm/slub.c: fix corrupted freechain in deactivate_slab() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-slub-fix-corrupted-freechain-in-deactivate_slab.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-slub-fix-corrupted-freechain-in-deactivate_slab.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-slub-fix-corrupted-freechain-in-deactivate_slab.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/slub.c: fix corrupted freechain in deactivate_slab() The slub_debug is able to fix the corrupted slab freelist/page. However, alloc_debug_processing() only checks the validity of current and next freepointer during allocation path. As a result, once some objects have their freepointers corrupted, deactivate_slab() may lead to page fault. Below is from a test kernel module when 'slub_debug=PUF,kmalloc-128 slub_nomerge'. The test kernel corrupts the freepointer of one free object on purpose. Unfortunately, deactivate_slab() does not detect it when iterating the freechain. [ 92.665260] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00000000123456f8 [ 92.671597] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 92.676159] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 92.681666] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 92.684923] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI ... ... [ 92.706684] RIP: 0010:deactivate_slab.isra.92+0xed/0x490 ... ... [ 92.819781] Call Trace: [ 92.823129] ? ext4_htree_store_dirent+0x30/0xf0 [ 92.829488] ? ext4_htree_store_dirent+0x30/0xf0 [ 92.834852] ? stack_trace_save+0x46/0x70 [ 92.839342] ? init_object+0x66/0x80 [ 92.843729] ? ___slab_alloc+0x536/0x570 [ 92.847664] ___slab_alloc+0x536/0x570 [ 92.851696] ? __find_get_block+0x23d/0x2c0 [ 92.856763] ? ext4_htree_store_dirent+0x30/0xf0 [ 92.862258] ? _cond_resched+0x10/0x40 [ 92.866925] ? __getblk_gfp+0x27/0x2a0 [ 92.872136] ? ext4_htree_store_dirent+0x30/0xf0 [ 92.878394] ? __slab_alloc+0x17/0x30 [ 92.883222] __slab_alloc+0x17/0x30 [ 92.887210] __kmalloc+0x1d9/0x200 [ 92.891448] ext4_htree_store_dirent+0x30/0xf0 [ 92.896748] htree_dirblock_to_tree+0xcb/0x1c0 [ 92.902398] ext4_htree_fill_tree+0x1bc/0x2d0 [ 92.907749] ext4_readdir+0x54f/0x920 [ 92.912725] iterate_dir+0x88/0x190 [ 92.917072] __x64_sys_getdents+0xa6/0x140 [ 92.922760] ? fillonedir+0xb0/0xb0 [ 92.927020] ? do_syscall_64+0x49/0x170 [ 92.931603] ? __ia32_sys_getdents+0x130/0x130 [ 92.937012] do_syscall_64+0x49/0x170 [ 92.940754] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 Therefore, this patch adds extra consistency check in deactivate_slab(). Once an object's freepointer is corrupted, all following objects starting at this object are isolated. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200331031450.12182-1-dongli.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joe Jin <joe.jin@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slub.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) --- a/mm/slub.c~mm-slub-fix-corrupted-freechain-in-deactivate_slab +++ a/mm/slub.c @@ -2083,6 +2083,20 @@ static void deactivate_slab(struct kmem_ void *prior; unsigned long counters; + if ((s->flags & SLAB_CONSISTENCY_CHECKS) && + !check_valid_pointer(s, page, nextfree)) { + /* + * If 'nextfree' is invalid, it is possible that + * the object at 'freelist' is already corrupted. + * Therefore, all objects starting at 'freelist' + * are isolated. + */ + object_err(s, page, freelist, "Freechain corrupt"); + freelist = NULL; + slab_fix(s, "Isolate corrupted freechain"); + break; + } + do { prior = page->freelist; counters = page->counters; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dongli.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-slub-fix-corrupted-freechain-in-deactivate_slab.patch