The patch titled
Subject: mm/mempolicy: correctly update prev when policy is equal on mbind
has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-mempolicy-correctly-update-prev-when-policy-is-equal-on-mbind.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-mempolicy-correctly-update-prev-when-policy-is-equal-on-mbind.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/mempolicy: correctly update prev when policy is equal on mbind
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2023 16:07:07 +0100
The refactoring in commit f4e9e0e69468 ("mm/mempolicy: fix use-after-free
of VMA iterator") introduces a subtle bug which arises when attempting to
apply a new NUMA policy across a range of VMAs in mbind_range().
The refactoring passes a **prev pointer to keep track of the previous VMA
in order to reduce duplication, and in all but one case it keeps this
correctly updated.
The bug arises when a VMA within the specified range has an equivalent
policy as determined by mpol_equal() - which unlike other cases, does not
update prev.
This can result in a situation where, later in the iteration, a VMA is
found whose policy does need to change. At this point, vma_merge() is
invoked with prev pointing to a VMA which is before the previous VMA.
Since vma_merge() discovers the curr VMA by looking for the one
immediately after prev, it will now be in a situation where this VMA is
incorrect and the merge will not proceed correctly.
This is checked in the VM_WARN_ON() invariant case with end >
curr->vm_end, which, if a merge is possible, results in a warning (if
CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is specified).
I note that vma_merge() performs these invariant checks only after
merge_prev/merge_next are checked, which is debatable as it hides this
issue if no merge is possible even though a buggy situation has arisen.
The solution is simply to update the prev pointer even when policies are
equal.
This caused a bug to arise in the 6.2.y stable tree, and this patch
resolves this bug.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/83f1d612acb519d777bebf7f3359317c4e7f4265.1682866629.git.lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx
Fixes: f4e9e0e69468 ("mm/mempolicy: fix use-after-free of VMA iterator")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202304292203.44ddeff6-oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mempolicy.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c~mm-mempolicy-correctly-update-prev-when-policy-is-equal-on-mbind
+++ a/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -808,8 +808,10 @@ static int mbind_range(struct vma_iterat
vmstart = vma->vm_start;
}
- if (mpol_equal(vma_policy(vma), new_pol))
+ if (mpol_equal(vma_policy(vma), new_pol)) {
+ *prev = vma;
return 0;
+ }
pgoff = vma->vm_pgoff + ((vmstart - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
merged = vma_merge(vmi, vma->vm_mm, *prev, vmstart, vmend, vma->vm_flags,
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx are
mm-mempolicy-correctly-update-prev-when-policy-is-equal-on-mbind.patch
