Re: [PATCH v2] mm: zswap: fix kernel BUG in sg_init_one

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Mon Mar 18 2024 - 22:30:24 EST


On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 12:47:06PM +1300, Barry Song wrote:
> From: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@xxxxxxxx>
>
> sg_init_one() relies on linearly mapped low memory for the safe
> utilization of virt_to_page(). Otherwise, we trigger a kernel
> BUG,
>
> kernel BUG at include/linux/scatterlist.h:187!
> Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 0 PID: 2997 Comm: syz-executor198 Not tainted 6.8.0-syzkaller #0
> Hardware name: ARM-Versatile Express
> PC is at sg_set_buf include/linux/scatterlist.h:187 [inline]
> PC is at sg_init_one+0x9c/0xa8 lib/scatterlist.c:143
> LR is at sg_init_table+0x2c/0x40 lib/scatterlist.c:128
> Backtrace:
> [<807e16ac>] (sg_init_one) from [<804c1824>] (zswap_decompress+0xbc/0x208 mm/zswap.c:1089)
> r7:83471c80 r6:def6d08c r5:844847d0 r4:ff7e7ef4
> [<804c1768>] (zswap_decompress) from [<804c4468>] (zswap_load+0x15c/0x198 mm/zswap.c:1637)
> r9:8446eb80 r8:8446eb80 r7:8446eb84 r6:def6d08c r5:00000001 r4:844847d0
> [<804c430c>] (zswap_load) from [<804b9644>] (swap_read_folio+0xa8/0x498 mm/page_io.c:518)
> r9:844ac800 r8:835e6c00 r7:00000000 r6:df955d4c r5:00000001 r4:def6d08c
> [<804b959c>] (swap_read_folio) from [<804bb064>] (swap_cluster_readahead+0x1c4/0x34c mm/swap_state.c:684)
> r10:00000000 r9:00000007 r8:df955d4b r7:00000000 r6:00000000 r5:00100cca
> r4:00000001
> [<804baea0>] (swap_cluster_readahead) from [<804bb3b8>] (swapin_readahead+0x68/0x4a8 mm/swap_state.c:904)
> r10:df955eb8 r9:00000000 r8:00100cca r7:84476480 r6:00000001 r5:00000000
> r4:00000001
> [<804bb350>] (swapin_readahead) from [<8047cde0>] (do_swap_page+0x200/0xcc4 mm/memory.c:4046)
> r10:00000040 r9:00000000 r8:844ac800 r7:84476480 r6:00000001 r5:00000000
> r4:df955eb8
> [<8047cbe0>] (do_swap_page) from [<8047e6c4>] (handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:5301 [inline])
> [<8047cbe0>] (do_swap_page) from [<8047e6c4>] (__handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:5439 [inline])
> [<8047cbe0>] (do_swap_page) from [<8047e6c4>] (handle_mm_fault+0x3d8/0x12b8 mm/memory.c:5604)
> r10:00000040 r9:842b3900 r8:7eb0d000 r7:84476480 r6:7eb0d000 r5:835e6c00
> r4:00000254
> [<8047e2ec>] (handle_mm_fault) from [<80215d28>] (do_page_fault+0x148/0x3a8 arch/arm/mm/fault.c:326)
> r10:00000007 r9:842b3900 r8:7eb0d000 r7:00000207 r6:00000254 r5:7eb0d9b4
> r4:df955fb0
> [<80215be0>] (do_page_fault) from [<80216170>] (do_DataAbort+0x38/0xa8 arch/arm/mm/fault.c:558)
> r10:7eb0da7c r9:00000000 r8:80215be0 r7:df955fb0 r6:7eb0d9b4 r5:00000207
> r4:8261d0e0
> [<80216138>] (do_DataAbort) from [<80200e3c>] (__dabt_usr+0x5c/0x60 arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S:427)
> Exception stack(0xdf955fb0 to 0xdf955ff8)
> 5fa0: 00000000 00000000 22d5f800 0008d158
> 5fc0: 00000000 7eb0d9a4 00000000 00000109 00000000 00000000 7eb0da7c 7eb0da3c
> 5fe0: 00000000 7eb0d9a0 00000001 00066bd4 00000010 ffffffff
> r8:824a9044 r7:835e6c00 r6:ffffffff r5:00000010 r4:00066bd4
> Code: 1a000004 e1822003 e8860094 e89da8f0 (e7f001f2)
> ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
> ----------------
> Code disassembly (best guess):
> 0: 1a000004 bne 0x18
> 4: e1822003 orr r2, r2, r3
> 8: e8860094 stm r6, {r2, r4, r7}
> c: e89da8f0 ldm sp, {r4, r5, r6, r7, fp, sp, pc}
> * 10: e7f001f2 udf #18 <-- trapping instruction
>
> Consequently, we have two choices: either employ kmap_to_page() alongside
> sg_set_page(), or resort to copying high memory contents to a temporary
> buffer residing in low memory. However, considering the introduction
> of the WARN_ON_ONCE in commit ef6e06b2ef870 ("highmem: fix kmap_to_page()
> for kmap_local_page() addresses"), which specifically addresses high
> memory concerns, it appears that memcpy remains the sole viable
> option.
>
> Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+adbc983a1588b7805de3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000bbb3d80613f243a6@xxxxxxxxxx/
> Fixes: 270700dd06ca ("mm/zswap: remove the memcpy if acomp is not sleepable")
> Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Making highmem more efficient isn't much of a priority, but I would
still be curious to hear Ira's thought on that WARN_ON_ONCE().