Re: [PATCH 5/5] mm/hmm: Fix mm stale reference use in hmm_free()

From: Ralph Campbell
Date: Wed May 22 2019 - 20:57:08 EST


On 5/22/19 4:36 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 04:35:14PM -0700, rcampbell@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
From: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@xxxxxxxxxx>

The last reference to struct hmm may be released long after the mm_struct
is destroyed because the struct hmm_mirror memory may be part of a
device driver open file private data pointer. The file descriptor close
is usually after the mm_struct is destroyed in do_exit(). This is a good
reason for making struct hmm a kref_t object [1] since its lifetime spans
the life time of mm_struct and struct hmm_mirror.

The fix is to not use hmm->mm in hmm_free() and to clear mm->hmm and
hmm->mm pointers in hmm_destroy() when the mm_struct is
destroyed.

I think the right way to fix this is to have the struct hmm hold a
mmgrab() on the mm so its memory cannot go away until all of the hmm
users release the struct hmm, hmm_ranges/etc

Then we can properly use mmget_not_zero() instead of the racy/abnormal
'if (hmm->xmm == NULL || hmm->dead)' pattern (see the other
thread). Actually looking at this, all these tests look very
questionable. If we hold the mmget() for the duration of the range
object, as Jerome suggested, then they all get deleted.

That just leaves mmu_notifier_unregister_no_relase() as the remaining
user of hmm->mm (everyone else is trying to do range->mm) - and it
looks like it currently tries to call
mmu_notifier_unregister_no_release on a NULL hmm->mm and crashes :(

Holding the mmgrab fixes this as we can safely call
mmu_notifier_unregister_no_relase() post exit_mmap on a grab'd mm.

Also we can delete the hmm_mm_destroy() intrustion into fork.c as it
can't be called when the mmgrab is active.

This is the basic pattern we used in ODP when working with mmu
notifiers, I don't know why hmm would need to be different.

index 2aa75dbed04a..4e42c282d334 100644
+++ b/mm/hmm.c
@@ -43,8 +43,10 @@ static inline struct hmm *mm_get_hmm(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
struct hmm *hmm = READ_ONCE(mm->hmm);
- if (hmm && kref_get_unless_zero(&hmm->kref))
+ if (hmm && !hmm->dead) {
+ kref_get(&hmm->kref);
return hmm;
+ }

hmm->dead and mm->hmm are not being read under lock, so this went from
something almost thread safe to something racy :(

@@ -53,25 +55,28 @@ static inline struct hmm *mm_get_hmm(struct mm_struct *mm)
* hmm_get_or_create - register HMM against an mm (HMM internal)
*
* @mm: mm struct to attach to
- * Returns: returns an HMM object, either by referencing the existing
- * (per-process) object, or by creating a new one.
+ * Return: an HMM object reference, either by referencing the existing
+ * (per-process) object, or by creating a new one.
*
- * This is not intended to be used directly by device drivers. If mm already
- * has an HMM struct then it get a reference on it and returns it. Otherwise
- * it allocates an HMM struct, initializes it, associate it with the mm and
- * returns it.
+ * If the mm already has an HMM struct then return a new reference to it.
+ * Otherwise, allocate an HMM struct, initialize it, associate it with the mm,
+ * and return a new reference to it. If the return value is not NULL,
+ * the caller is responsible for calling hmm_put().
*/
static struct hmm *hmm_get_or_create(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
- struct hmm *hmm = mm_get_hmm(mm);
- bool cleanup = false;
+ struct hmm *hmm = mm->hmm;
- if (hmm)
- return hmm;
+ if (hmm) {
+ if (hmm->dead)
+ goto error;

Create shouldn't fail just because it is racing with something doing
destroy

The flow should be something like:

spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock); // or write side mmap_sem if you prefer
if (mm->hmm)
if (kref_get_unless_zero(mm->hmm))
return mm->hmm;
mm->hmm = NULL


+ goto out;
+ }
hmm = kmalloc(sizeof(*hmm), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!hmm)
- return NULL;
+ goto error;
+
init_waitqueue_head(&hmm->wq);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&hmm->mirrors);
init_rwsem(&hmm->mirrors_sem);
@@ -83,47 +88,32 @@ static struct hmm *hmm_get_or_create(struct mm_struct *mm)
hmm->dead = false;
hmm->mm = mm;
- spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
- if (!mm->hmm)
- mm->hmm = hmm;
- else
- cleanup = true;
- spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);

BTW, Jerome this needs fixing too, it shouldn't fail the function just
because it lost the race.

More like

spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
if (mm->hmm)
if (kref_get_unless_zero(mm->hmm)) {
kfree(hmm);
return mm->hmm;
}
mm->hmm = hmm

- if (cleanup)
- goto error;
-
/*
- * We should only get here if hold the mmap_sem in write mode ie on
- * registration of first mirror through hmm_mirror_register()
+ * The mmap_sem should be held for write so no additional locking

Please let us have proper lockdep assertions for this kind of stuff.

+ * is needed. Note that struct_mm holds a reference to hmm.
+ * It is cleared in hmm_release().
*/
+ mm->hmm = hmm;

Actually using the write side the mmap_sem seems sort of same if it is
assured the write side is always held for this call..


Hmm, there is a race with hmm_destroy touching mm->hmm that does
hold the write lock.

+
hmm->mmu_notifier.ops = &hmm_mmu_notifier_ops;
if (__mmu_notifier_register(&hmm->mmu_notifier, mm))
goto error_mm;

And the error unwind here is problematic as it should do
kref_put. Actually after my patch to use container_of this
mmu_notifier_register should go before the mm->hmm = hmm to avoid
having to do the sketchy error unwind at all.

+out:
+ /* Return a separate hmm reference for the caller. */
+ kref_get(&hmm->kref);
return hmm;
error_mm:
- spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
- if (mm->hmm == hmm)
- mm->hmm = NULL;
- spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
-error:
+ mm->hmm = NULL;
kfree(hmm);
+error:
return NULL;
}
static void hmm_free(struct kref *kref)
{
struct hmm *hmm = container_of(kref, struct hmm, kref);
- struct mm_struct *mm = hmm->mm;
-
- mmu_notifier_unregister_no_release(&hmm->mmu_notifier, mm);

Where did the unregister go?

-
- spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
- if (mm->hmm == hmm)
- mm->hmm = NULL;
- spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);

Well, we still need to NULL mm->hmm if the hmm was put before the mm
is destroyed.

kfree(hmm);
}
@@ -135,25 +125,18 @@ static inline void hmm_put(struct hmm *hmm)
void hmm_mm_destroy(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
- struct hmm *hmm;
+ struct hmm *hmm = mm->hmm;
- spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
- hmm = mm_get_hmm(mm);
- mm->hmm = NULL;
if (hmm) {
+ mm->hmm = NULL;

At this point The kref on mm is 0, so any other thread reading mm->hmm
has a use-after-free bug. Not much point in doing this assignment , it
is just confusing.

hmm->mm = NULL;
- hmm->dead = true;
- spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
hmm_put(hmm);
- return;
}
-
- spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
}
static void hmm_release(struct mmu_notifier *mn, struct mm_struct *mm)
{
- struct hmm *hmm = mm_get_hmm(mm);
+ struct hmm *hmm = mm->hmm;

container_of is much safer/better

@@ -931,20 +909,14 @@ int hmm_range_register(struct hmm_range *range,
return -EINVAL;
if (start >= end)
return -EINVAL;
+ hmm = mm_get_hmm(mm);
+ if (!hmm)
+ return -EFAULT;
range->page_shift = page_shift;
range->start = start;
range->end = end;
-
- range->hmm = mm_get_hmm(mm);
- if (!range->hmm)
- return -EFAULT;
-
- /* Check if hmm_mm_destroy() was call. */
- if (range->hmm->mm == NULL || range->hmm->dead) {

This comment looks bogus too, we can't race with hmm_mm_destroy as the
caller MUST have a mmgrab or mmget on the mm already to call this API
- ie can't be destroyed.

As discussed in the other thread this should probably be
mmget_not_zero.

Jason

I think you missed the main points which are:

1) mm->hmm holds a reference to struct hmm so hmm isn't going away until
__mmdrop() is called. hmm->mm is not a reference to mm,
just a "backward" pointer.
Trying to make struct hmm hold a *reference* to mm seems wrong to me.

2) mm->hmm is only set with mm->mmap_sem held for write.
mm->hmm is only cleared when __mmdrop() is called.
hmm->mm is only cleared when __mmdrop() is called so it is long after the call to hmm_release().

3) The mmu notifier unregister happens only as part of exit_mmap().

The hmm->dead and hmm->mm == NULL checks are more for sanity checking
since hmm_mirror_register() shouldn't be called without holding mmap_sem.
A VM_WARN or other check makes sense like you said.

Anyway, I'll wait for Jerome to weigh in as to how to proceed.