This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mbcache: initialize entry->e_referenced in mb_cache_entry_create()
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mbcache-initialize-entry-e_referenced-in-mb_cache_entry_create.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 3876bbe27d04b848750d5310a37d6b76b593f648 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 16:22:35 -0500
Subject: mbcache: initialize entry->e_referenced in mb_cache_entry_create()
From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 3876bbe27d04b848750d5310a37d6b76b593f648 upstream.
KMSAN reported use of uninitialized |entry->e_referenced| in a condition
in mb_cache_shrink():
==================================================================
BUG: KMSAN: use of uninitialized memory in mb_cache_shrink+0x3b4/0xc50 fs/mbcache.c:287
CPU: 2 PID: 816 Comm: kswapd1 Not tainted 4.11.0-rc5+ #2877
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs
01/01/2011
Call Trace:
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:16 [inline]
dump_stack+0x172/0x1c0 lib/dump_stack.c:52
kmsan_report+0x12a/0x180 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:927
__msan_warning_32+0x61/0xb0 mm/kmsan/kmsan_instr.c:469
mb_cache_shrink+0x3b4/0xc50 fs/mbcache.c:287
mb_cache_scan+0x67/0x80 fs/mbcache.c:321
do_shrink_slab mm/vmscan.c:397 [inline]
shrink_slab+0xc3d/0x12d0 mm/vmscan.c:500
shrink_node+0x208f/0x2fd0 mm/vmscan.c:2603
kswapd_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:3172 [inline]
balance_pgdat mm/vmscan.c:3289 [inline]
kswapd+0x160f/0x2850 mm/vmscan.c:3478
kthread+0x46c/0x5f0 kernel/kthread.c:230
ret_from_fork+0x29/0x40 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:430
chained origin:
save_stack_trace+0x37/0x40 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:59
kmsan_save_stack_with_flags mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:302 [inline]
kmsan_save_stack mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:317 [inline]
kmsan_internal_chain_origin+0x12a/0x1f0 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:547
__msan_store_shadow_origin_1+0xac/0x110 mm/kmsan/kmsan_instr.c:257
mb_cache_entry_create+0x3b3/0xc60 fs/mbcache.c:95
ext4_xattr_cache_insert fs/ext4/xattr.c:1647 [inline]
ext4_xattr_block_set+0x4c82/0x5530 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1022
ext4_xattr_set_handle+0x1332/0x20a0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1252
ext4_xattr_set+0x4d2/0x680 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1306
ext4_xattr_trusted_set+0x8d/0xa0 fs/ext4/xattr_trusted.c:36
__vfs_setxattr+0x703/0x790 fs/xattr.c:149
__vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x27a/0x6f0 fs/xattr.c:180
vfs_setxattr fs/xattr.c:223 [inline]
setxattr+0x6ae/0x790 fs/xattr.c:449
path_setxattr+0x1eb/0x380 fs/xattr.c:468
SYSC_lsetxattr+0x8d/0xb0 fs/xattr.c:490
SyS_lsetxattr+0x77/0xa0 fs/xattr.c:486
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x13/0x94
origin:
save_stack_trace+0x37/0x40 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:59
kmsan_save_stack_with_flags mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:302 [inline]
kmsan_internal_poison_shadow+0xb1/0x1a0 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:198
kmsan_kmalloc+0x7f/0xe0 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:337
kmem_cache_alloc+0x1c2/0x1e0 mm/slub.c:2766
mb_cache_entry_create+0x283/0xc60 fs/mbcache.c:86
ext4_xattr_cache_insert fs/ext4/xattr.c:1647 [inline]
ext4_xattr_block_set+0x4c82/0x5530 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1022
ext4_xattr_set_handle+0x1332/0x20a0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1252
ext4_xattr_set+0x4d2/0x680 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1306
ext4_xattr_trusted_set+0x8d/0xa0 fs/ext4/xattr_trusted.c:36
__vfs_setxattr+0x703/0x790 fs/xattr.c:149
__vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x27a/0x6f0 fs/xattr.c:180
vfs_setxattr fs/xattr.c:223 [inline]
setxattr+0x6ae/0x790 fs/xattr.c:449
path_setxattr+0x1eb/0x380 fs/xattr.c:468
SYSC_lsetxattr+0x8d/0xb0 fs/xattr.c:490
SyS_lsetxattr+0x77/0xa0 fs/xattr.c:486
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x13/0x94
==================================================================
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.6
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/mbcache.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/fs/mbcache.c
+++ b/fs/mbcache.c
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ int mb_cache_entry_create(struct mb_cach
entry->e_key = key;
entry->e_block = block;
entry->e_reusable = reusable;
+ entry->e_referenced = 0;
head = mb_cache_entry_head(cache, key);
hlist_bl_lock(head);
hlist_bl_for_each_entry(dup, dup_node, head, e_hash_list) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from glider@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/mbcache-initialize-entry-e_referenced-in-mb_cache_entry_create.patch