4.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Jing Xia <[email protected]> commit 9f15bde671355c351cf20d9f879004b234353100 upstream. It was reported that a kernel crash happened in mem_cgroup_iter(), which can be triggered if the legacy cgroup-v1 non-hierarchical mode is used. Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b6b6b6b8f ...... Call trace: mem_cgroup_iter+0x2e0/0x6d4 shrink_zone+0x8c/0x324 balance_pgdat+0x450/0x640 kswapd+0x130/0x4b8 kthread+0xe8/0xfc ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 mem_cgroup_iter(): ...... if (css_tryget(css)) <-- crash here break; ...... The crashing reason is that mem_cgroup_iter() uses the memcg object whose pointer is stored in iter->position, which has been freed before and filled with POISON_FREE(0x6b). And the root cause of the use-after-free issue is that invalidate_reclaim_iterators() fails to reset the value of iter->position to NULL when the css of the memcg is released in non- hierarchical mode. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Fixes: 6df38689e0e9 ("mm: memcontrol: fix possible memcg leak due to interrupted reclaim") Signed-off-by: Jing Xia <[email protected]> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Cc: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -850,7 +850,7 @@ static void invalidate_reclaim_iterators int nid; int i; - while ((memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg))) { + for (; memcg; memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg)) { for_each_node(nid) { mz = mem_cgroup_nodeinfo(memcg, nid); for (i = 0; i <= DEF_PRIORITY; i++) {
