Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: Don't call region_abort if region_chg fails

From: Hillf Danton
Date: Fri Mar 24 2017 - 02:11:51 EST


Reply again with Andrew's mail address corrected:)

-'Andrew Morton' <akpm@linux^Coundation.org>
+'Andrew Morton' <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> On March 24, 2017 12:03 PM Mike Kravetz wrote:
> >
> > Changes to hugetlbfs reservation maps is a two step process. The first
> > step is a call to region_chg to determine what needs to be changed, and
> > prepare that change. This should be followed by a call to call to
> > region_add to commit the change, or region_abort to abort the change.
> >
> > The error path in hugetlb_reserve_pages called region_abort after a
> > failed call to region_chg. As a result, the adds_in_progress counter
> > in the reservation map is off by 1. This is caught by a VM_BUG_ON
> > in resv_map_release when the reservation map is freed.
> >
> > syzkaller fuzzer found this bug, that resulted in the following:
> >
> > kernel BUG at mm/hugetlb.c:742!
> > Call Trace:
> > hugetlbfs_evict_inode+0x7b/0xa0 fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c:493
> > evict+0x481/0x920 fs/inode.c:553
> > iput_final fs/inode.c:1515 [inline]
> > iput+0x62b/0xa20 fs/inode.c:1542
> > hugetlb_file_setup+0x593/0x9f0 fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c:1306
> > newseg+0x422/0xd30 ipc/shm.c:575
> > ipcget_new ipc/util.c:285 [inline]
> > ipcget+0x21e/0x580 ipc/util.c:639
> > SYSC_shmget ipc/shm.c:673 [inline]
> > SyS_shmget+0x158/0x230 ipc/shm.c:657
> > entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xc2
> > RIP: resv_map_release+0x265/0x330 mm/hugetlb.c:742
> >
> > Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > mm/hugetlb.c | 4 +++-
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> > index c7025c1..c65d45c 100644
> > --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> > +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> > @@ -4233,7 +4233,9 @@ int hugetlb_reserve_pages(struct inode *inode,
> > return 0;
> > out_err:
> > if (!vma || vma->vm_flags & VM_MAYSHARE)
> > - region_abort(resv_map, from, to);
> > + /* Don't call region_abort if region_chg failed */
> > + if (chg >= 0)
> > + region_abort(resv_map, from, to);
> > if (vma && is_vma_resv_set(vma, HPAGE_RESV_OWNER))
> > kref_put(&resv_map->refs, resv_map_release);
> > return ret;
> > --
> > 2.7.4