It has been reported that the tag setting operation on newly-allocated pages can cause the page flags to be corrupted when performed concurrently with other flag updates as a result of the use of non-atomic operations. Fix the problem by using a compare-exchange loop to update the tag. Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/I456b24a2b9067d93968d43b4bb3351c0cec63101 Fixes: 2813b9c02962 ("kasan, mm, arm64: tag non slab memory allocated via pagealloc") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- v3: - use try_cmpxchg() as suggested by Peter Zijlstra on another patch v2: - use READ_ONCE() include/linux/mm.h | 17 ++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index c768a7c81b0b..87473fe52c3f 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -1531,11 +1531,18 @@ static inline u8 page_kasan_tag(const struct page *page) static inline void page_kasan_tag_set(struct page *page, u8 tag) { - if (kasan_enabled()) { - tag ^= 0xff; - page->flags &= ~(KASAN_TAG_MASK << KASAN_TAG_PGSHIFT); - page->flags |= (tag & KASAN_TAG_MASK) << KASAN_TAG_PGSHIFT; - } + unsigned long old_flags, flags; + + if (!kasan_enabled()) + return; + + tag ^= 0xff; + old_flags = READ_ONCE(page->flags); + do { + flags = old_flags; + flags &= ~(KASAN_TAG_MASK << KASAN_TAG_PGSHIFT); + flags |= (tag & KASAN_TAG_MASK) << KASAN_TAG_PGSHIFT; + } while (unlikely(!try_cmpxchg(&page->flags, &old_flags, flags))); } static inline void page_kasan_tag_reset(struct page *page) -- 2.34.1.703.g22d0c6ccf7-goog
