[PATCH v2] mm/hugetlb: Fix a race between hugetlb sysctl handlers

[Muchun Song]

There is a race between the assignment of `table->data` and write value
to the pointer of `table->data` in the __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax() on
the other thread.

CPU0:                                 CPU1:
                                      proc_sys_write
hugetlb_sysctl_handler                  proc_sys_call_handler
hugetlb_sysctl_handler_common             hugetlb_sysctl_handler
  table->data = &tmp;                       hugetlb_sysctl_handler_common
                                              table->data = &tmp;
    proc_doulongvec_minmax
      do_proc_doulongvec_minmax           sysctl_head_finish
        __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax         unuse_table
          i = table->data;
          *i = val;  // corrupt CPU1's stack

Fix this by duplicating the `table`, and only update the duplicate of
it. And introduce a helper of proc_hugetlb_doulongvec_minmax() to
simplify the code.

The following oops was seen:

    BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
    #PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode
    #PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page
    Code: Bad RIP value.
    ...
    Call Trace:
     ? set_max_huge_pages+0x3da/0x4f0
     ? alloc_pool_huge_page+0x150/0x150
     ? proc_doulongvec_minmax+0x46/0x60
     ? hugetlb_sysctl_handler_common+0x1c7/0x200
     ? nr_hugepages_store+0x20/0x20
     ? copy_fd_bitmaps+0x170/0x170
     ? hugetlb_sysctl_handler+0x1e/0x20
     ? proc_sys_call_handler+0x2f1/0x300
     ? unregister_sysctl_table+0xb0/0xb0
     ? __fd_install+0x78/0x100
     ? proc_sys_write+0x14/0x20
     ? __vfs_write+0x4d/0x90
     ? vfs_write+0xef/0x240
     ? ksys_write+0xc0/0x160
     ? __ia32_sys_read+0x50/0x50
     ? __close_fd+0x129/0x150
     ? __x64_sys_write+0x43/0x50
     ? do_syscall_64+0x6c/0x200
     ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Fixes: e5ff215941d5 ("hugetlb: multiple hstates for multiple page sizes")
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
chagelogs in v2:
 1. Add more details about how the race happened to the commit message.
 2. Remove unnecessary assignment of table->maxlen.

 mm/hugetlb.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index a301c2d672bf..4c2a2620eeed 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3454,6 +3454,22 @@ static unsigned int allowed_mems_nr(struct hstate *h)
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
+static int proc_hugetlb_doulongvec_minmax(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+					  void *buffer, size_t *length,
+					  loff_t *ppos, unsigned long *out)
+{
+	struct ctl_table dup_table;
+
+	/*
+	 * In order to avoid races with __do_proc_doulongvec_minmax(), we
+	 * can duplicate the @table and alter the duplicate of it.
+	 */
+	dup_table = *table;
+	dup_table.data = out;
+
+	return proc_doulongvec_minmax(&dup_table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
+}
+
 static int hugetlb_sysctl_handler_common(bool obey_mempolicy,
 			 struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 			 void *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
@@ -3465,9 +3481,8 @@ static int hugetlb_sysctl_handler_common(bool obey_mempolicy,
 	if (!hugepages_supported())
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
-	table->data = &tmp;
-	table->maxlen = sizeof(unsigned long);
-	ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
+	ret = proc_hugetlb_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos,
+					     &tmp);
 	if (ret)
 		goto out;
 
@@ -3510,9 +3525,8 @@ int hugetlb_overcommit_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 	if (write && hstate_is_gigantic(h))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	table->data = &tmp;
-	table->maxlen = sizeof(unsigned long);
-	ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
+	ret = proc_hugetlb_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos,
+					     &tmp);
 	if (ret)
 		goto out;
 
-- 
2.11.0