Re: "reuse mergeable anon_vma as parent when fork" causes a crash on s390

From: Wei Yang
Date: Thu Oct 10 2019 - 08:14:24 EST


On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 11:29:44AM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
>On 10/10/2019 06.15, Wei Yang wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 10:36:01AM +0800, Wei Yang wrote:
>> > Hi, Qian, Shakeel
>> >
>> > Thanks for testing.
>> >
>> > Sounds I missed some case to handle. anon_vma_clone() now would be called in
>> > vma_adjust, which is a different case when it is introduced.
>> >
>>
>> Well, I have to correct my statement. The reason is we may did something more
>> in anon_vma_clone().
>>
>> Here is a quick fix, while I need to go through all the cases carefully.
>
>Oops, I've overlooked this case too.
>
>You have to check src->anon_vma
>otherwise in __split_vma or copy_vma dst could pick completely random anon_vma.
>
>Also checking prev will not hurt, just to be sure.
>
>So, something like this should work:
>
>if (!dst->anon_vma && src->anon_vma &&
> prev && pprev && pprev->anon_vma == src->anon_vma)
> dst->anon_vma = prev->anon_vma;
>

This may not be the root cause, I found another problem of it.

Let me prepare a patch to fix it.

>>
>> diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
>> index 12f6c3d7fd9d..2844f442208d 100644
>> --- a/mm/rmap.c
>> +++ b/mm/rmap.c
>> @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ int anon_vma_clone(struct vm_area_struct *dst, struct vm_area_struct *src)
>> * 1. Parent has vm_prev, which implies we have vm_prev.
>> * 2. Parent and its vm_prev have the same anon_vma.
>> */
>> - if (pprev && pprev->anon_vma == src->anon_vma)
>> + if (!dst->anon_vma && pprev && pprev->anon_vma == src->anon_vma)
>> dst->anon_vma = prev->anon_vma;
>> list_for_each_entry_reverse(pavc, &src->anon_vma_chain, same_vma) {
>>
>> > BTW, do you have the specific test case? So that I could verify my change. The
>> > kernel build test doesn't trigger this.
>> >
>> > Thanks a lot :-)
>> >
>> > On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 03:21:11PM -0700, Shakeel Butt wrote:
>> > --
>> > Wei Yang
>> > Help you, Help me
>>

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