Re: kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h:LINE!

From: Baoquan He
Date: Thu May 03 2018 - 20:32:21 EST


On 05/01/18 at 07:10pm, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> From d54b2acf63191eba3d5052bf34fe6d26e3580ac2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 1 May 2018 15:36:52 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH] x86/kexec: avoid double free_page() upon do_kexec_load()
> failure.
>
> syzbot is reporting crashes after memory allocation failure inside
> do_kexec_load() [1]. This is because free_transition_pgtable() is called
> by both init_transition_pgtable() and machine_kexec_cleanup() when memory
> allocation failed inside init_transition_pgtable().
>
> Regarding 32bit code, machine_kexec_free_page_tables() is called by both
> machine_kexec_alloc_page_tables() and machine_kexec_cleanup() when memory
> allocation failed inside machine_kexec_alloc_page_tables().
>
> Fix this by explicitly setting NULL after free_page().

Setting them NULL after free_page() is a good idea. Maybe can remove the
double calling of free_transition_pgtable() too in init_transition_pgtable()
because the returned value will trigger the later calling.

>
> [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=91e52396168cf2bdd572fe1e1bc0bc645c1c6b40
>
> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+d96f60296ef613fe1d69@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: f5deb79679af6eb4 ("x86: kexec: Use one page table in x86_64 machine_kexec")
> Fixes: 92be3d6bdf2cb349 ("kexec/i386: allocate page table pages dynamically")
> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c | 5 +++++
> arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | 4 ++++
> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c
> index 60cdec6..ceccfe4 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_32.c
> @@ -57,12 +57,17 @@ static void load_segments(void)
> static void machine_kexec_free_page_tables(struct kimage *image)
> {
> free_page((unsigned long)image->arch.pgd);
> + image->arch.pgd = NULL;
> #ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE
> free_page((unsigned long)image->arch.pmd0);
> + image->arch.pmd0 = NULL;
> free_page((unsigned long)image->arch.pmd1);
> + image->arch.pmd1 = NULL;
> #endif
> free_page((unsigned long)image->arch.pte0);
> + image->arch.pte0 = NULL;
> free_page((unsigned long)image->arch.pte1);
> + image->arch.pte1 = NULL;
> }
>
> static int machine_kexec_alloc_page_tables(struct kimage *image)
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
> index a5e55d8..76aaee9 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c
> @@ -39,9 +39,13 @@
> static void free_transition_pgtable(struct kimage *image)
> {
> free_page((unsigned long)image->arch.p4d);
> + image->arch.p4d = NULL;
> free_page((unsigned long)image->arch.pud);
> + image->arch.pud = NULL;
> free_page((unsigned long)image->arch.pmd);
> + image->arch.pmd = NULL;
> free_page((unsigned long)image->arch.pte);
> + image->arch.pte = NULL;
> }
>
> static int init_transition_pgtable(struct kimage *image, pgd_t *pgd)
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>