[PATCH] staging: ashmem: Fix SIGBUS crash when traversing mmaped ashmem pages

From: John Stultz
Date: Tue Jul 31 2018 - 13:17:19 EST


Amit Pundir and Youling in parallel reported crashes with recent
mainline kernels running Android:

F DEBUG : *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
F DEBUG : Build fingerprint:
'Android/db410c32_only/db410c32_only:Q/OC-MR1/102:userdebug/test-key
F DEBUG : Revision: '0'
F DEBUG : ABI: 'arm'
F DEBUG : pid: 2261, tid: 2261, name: zygote >>> zygote <<<
F DEBUG : signal 7 (SIGBUS), code 2 (BUS_ADRERR), fault addr 0xec00008
... <snip> ...
F DEBUG : backtrace:
F DEBUG : #00 pc 00001c04 /system/lib/libc.so (memset+48)
F DEBUG : #01 pc 0010c513 /system/lib/libart.so
(create_mspace_with_base+82)
F DEBUG : #02 pc 0015c601 /system/lib/libart.so
(art::gc::space::DlMallocSpace::CreateMspace(void*, unsigned int,
unsigned int)+40)
F DEBUG : #03 pc 0015c3ed /system/lib/libart.so
(art::gc::space::DlMallocSpace::CreateFromMemMap(art::MemMap*,
std::__1::basic_string<char, std::__
1::char_traits<char>, std::__1::allocator<char>> const&, unsigned int,
unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int, bool)+36)
...

This was bisected back to commit bfd40eaff5ab ("mm: fix vma_is_anonymous()
false-positives").

create_mspace_with_base() in the trace above, utilizes ashmem, and
with ashmem, for shared mappings we use shmem_zero_setup(), which sets
the vma->vm_ops to &shmem_vm_ops. But for private ashmem mappings
nothing sets the vma->vm_ops.

Looking at the problematic patch, it seems to add a requirement that
one call vma_set_anonymous() on a vma, otherwise the dummy_vm_ops will
be used. Using the dummy_vm_ops seem to triggger SIGBUS when traversing
unmapped pages.

Thus, this patch adds a call to vma_set_anonymous() for ashmem private
mappings and seems to avoid the reported problem.

Cc: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: youling 257 <youling257@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: bfd40eaff5ab ("mm: fix vma_is_anonymous() false-positives")
Reported-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Youling 257 <youling257@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Hopefully my explanation make sense here. Please let me know if it
needs corrections.
thanks
-john

---
drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
index a1a0025..d5d33e1 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
@@ -402,6 +402,8 @@ static int ashmem_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
fput(asma->file);
goto out;
}
+ } else {
+ vma_set_anonymous(vma);
}

if (vma->vm_file)
--
2.7.4