Re: Memory leak in 2.4.27 kernel, using mmap raw packet sockets

From: O.Sezer
Date: Thu Oct 21 2004 - 08:52:12 EST


Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > That isnt sufficient. Consider anything else taking a reference to the
> > page and the refcount going negative. > > You mean not going negative? The problem here as I understand here is > we dont release the count if the PageReserved is set, but we should.

Drivers like the OSS audio drivers move page between Reserved and unreserved. The count can thus be corrupted.

the PG_reserved goes away after VM_IO, so forbidding pages with
PG_reserved of vmas with VM_IO isn't any different as far as I can tell,
and since PG_reserved is the real offender sure we shouldn't leave a
check in get_user_pages that explicitly do something if the page is
reserved, since if the page is reserved at that point we'd need to
return -EFAULT or BUG_ON.

Adding the VM_IO patch on top of this is sure a good idea.

--- sles/mm/memory.c.~1~ 2004-10-19 19:34:10.264335488 +0200
+++ sles/mm/memory.c 2004-10-19 19:58:47.403776160 +0200
@@ -806,7 +806,7 @@ int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *t
}
if (pages) {
pages[i] = get_page_map(map);
- if (!pages[i]) {
+ if (!pages[i] || PageReserved(pages[i])) {
spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
while (i--)
page_cache_release(pages[i]);
@@ -814,8 +814,7 @@ int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *t
goto out;
}
flush_dcache_page(pages[i]);
- if (!PageReserved(pages[i]))
- page_cache_get(pages[i]);
+ page_cache_get(pages[i]);
}
if (vmas)
vmas[i] = vma;

My version of the fix for 2.4 is this, but this fixes as well an issue
with the zeropage and it's on top of some other fix for COW corruption
in 2.4 not yet fixed in mainline 2.4. Since 2.4 never checked
PageReserved like 2.6 does in get_user_pages, 2.4 as worse can suffer a
memleak.

--- sles/include/linux/mm.h.~1~ 2004-10-18 10:20:53.391823696 +0200
+++ sles/include/linux/mm.h 2004-10-18 10:47:10.861011928 +0200
@@ -533,9 +533,8 @@ extern void unpin_pte_page(struct page *
static inline void put_user_page_pte_pin(struct page * page)
{
- if (PagePinned(page))
- /* must run before put_page, put_page may free the page */
- unpin_pte_page(page);
+ /* must run before put_page, put_page may free the page */
+ unpin_pte_page(page);
put_page(page);
}
--- sles/mm/memory.c.~1~ 2004-10-18 10:20:54.947587184 +0200
+++ sles/mm/memory.c 2004-10-18 10:47:49.822088944 +0200
@@ -530,7 +530,11 @@ void __wait_on_pte_pinned_page(struct pa
void unpin_pte_page(struct page *page)
{
- wait_queue_head_t *waitqueue = page_waitqueue(page);
+ wait_queue_head_t *waitqueue;
+
+ if (!PagePinned(page))
+ return;
+ waitqueue = page_waitqueue(page);
if (unlikely(!TestClearPagePinned(page)))
BUG();
smp_mb__after_clear_bit(); @@ -598,17 +602,21 @@ int __get_user_pages(struct task_struct */
if (!map)
goto bad_page;
- page_cache_get(map);
- if (pte_pin && unlikely(TestSetPagePinned(map))) {
- /* fail if this is a duplicate physical page in this kiovec */
- int i2 = i;
- while (i2--)
- if (map == pages[i2]) {
- put_page(map);
- goto bad_page;
- }
- /* hold a reference on "map" so we can wait on it */
- goto pte_pin_collision;
+ if (map != ZERO_PAGE(start)) {
+ if (PageReserved(map))
+ goto bad_page;
+ page_cache_get(map);
+ if (pte_pin && unlikely(TestSetPagePinned(map))) {
+ /* fail if this is a duplicate physical page in this kiovec */
+ int i2 = i;
+ while (i2--)
+ if (map == pages[i2]) {
+ put_page(map);
+ goto bad_page;
+ }
+ /* hold a reference on "map" so we can wait on it */
+ goto pte_pin_collision;
+ }
}
pages[i] = map;
}

I can't find to which suse kernel these patch(es) apply. I assume
your first one comes down to the attached one-liner for vanilla-2.4,
can you confirm?
For your second: I think it needs your 9999_z-get_user_pages_pte_pin-1
patch applied beforehand?. Without that patch, are there any problems
to be fixed? Can you post patches for vanilla kernels, please?

Regards,
Ozkan Sezer

--- 2.4/mm/memory.c.BAK 2004-10-20 11:49:35.000000000 +0300
+++ 2.4/mm/memory.c 2004-10-21 10:43:01.000000000 +0300
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@
/* FIXME: call the correct function,
* depending on the type of the found page
*/
- if (!pages[i])
+ if (!pages[i] || PageReserved(pages[i]))
goto bad_page;
page_cache_get(pages[i]);
}