Re: Multiple potential races on vma->vm_flags

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 09/15, Sasha Levin wrote:
>
> I've modified my tests to stress the exit path of processes with many vmas,
> and hit the following NULL ptr deref (not sure if it's related to the original issue):

I am shy to ask. Looks like I am the only stupid one who needs
more info...

> [1181047.935563] kasan: GPF could be caused by NULL-ptr deref or user memory accessgeneral protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN

Well, I know absolutely nothing about kasan, to the point I can't even
unserstand where does this message come from. grep didn't help. But this
doesn't matter...

> [1181047.937223] Modules linked in:
> [1181047.937772] CPU: 4 PID: 21912 Comm: trinity-c341 Not tainted 4.3.0-rc1-next-20150914-sasha-00043-geddd763-dirty #2554
> [1181047.939387] task: ffff8804195c8000 ti: ffff880433f00000 task.ti: ffff880433f00000
> [1181047.940533] RIP: unmap_vmas (mm/memory.c:1337)

I do not know which tree/branch do you use. In Linus's tree mm/memory.c:1337 is

	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;

but this doesn't match the asm below,

>    0:   08 80 3c 02 00 0f       or     %al,0xf00023c(%rax)
>    6:   85 22                   test   %esp,(%rdx)
>    8:   01 00                   add    %eax,(%rax)
>    a:   00 48 8b                add    %cl,-0x75(%rax)
>    d:   43                      rex.XB
>    e:   40                      rex
>    f:   48 8d b8 c8 04 00 00    lea    0x4c8(%rax),%rdi
>   16:   48 89 45 d0             mov    %rax,-0x30(%rbp)
>   1a:   48 b8 00 00 00 00 00    movabs $0xdffffc0000000000,%rax
>   21:   fc ff df
>   24:   48 89 fa                mov    %rdi,%rdx
>   27:   48 c1 ea 03             shr    $0x3,%rdx
>   2b:*  80 3c 02 00             cmpb   $0x0,(%rdx,%rax,1)               <-- trapping instruction
>   2f:   0f 85 ee 00 00 00       jne    0x123
>   35:   48 8b 45 d0             mov    -0x30(%rbp),%rax
>   39:   48 83 b8 c8 04 00 00    cmpq   $0x0,0x4c8(%rax)
>   40:   00

And I do not see anything similar in "objdump -d". So could you at least
show mm/memory.c:1337 in your tree?

Hmm. movabs $0xdffffc0000000000,%rax above looks suspicious, this looks
like kasan_mem_to_shadow(). So perhaps this code was generated by kasan?
(I can't check, my gcc is very old). Or what?

Any chance you can tell us where exactly we hit NULL-deref in unmap_vmas?

Oleg.

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