On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 01:09:38PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 12:51:04 -0800 syzbot 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > syzbot found the following crash on:
> 
> uh-oh.  Josef, could you please take a look?
> 
> :     page = find_get_page(mapping, offset);
> :     if (likely(page) && !(vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_TRIED)) {
> :             /*
> :              * We found the page, so try async readahead before
> :              * waiting for the lock.
> :              */
> :             fpin = do_async_mmap_readahead(vmf, page);
> :     } else if (!page) {
> :             /* No page in the page cache at all */
> :             fpin = do_sync_mmap_readahead(vmf);
> :             count_vm_event(PGMAJFAULT);
> :             count_memcg_event_mm(vmf->vma->vm_mm, PGMAJFAULT);
> 
> vmf->vma has been freed at this point.
> 
> :             ret = VM_FAULT_MAJOR;
> : retry_find:
> :             page = pagecache_get_page(mapping, offset,
> :                                       FGP_CREAT|FGP_FOR_MMAP,
> :                                       vmf->gfp_mask);
> :             if (!page) {
> :                     if (fpin)
> :                             goto out_retry;
> :                     return vmf_error(-ENOMEM);
> :             }
> :     }
> 

Here's a fixup for "filemap: drop the mmap_sem for all blocking operations".

do_sync_mmap_readahead() drops mmap_sem now, so by the time of
dereferencing vmf->vma for count_memcg_event_mm() the VMA can be gone.

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 00a9315f45d4..65c85c47bdb1 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2554,10 +2554,10 @@ vm_fault_t filemap_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
                fpin = do_async_mmap_readahead(vmf, page);
        } else if (!page) {
                /* No page in the page cache at all */
-               fpin = do_sync_mmap_readahead(vmf);
                count_vm_event(PGMAJFAULT);
                count_memcg_event_mm(vmf->vma->vm_mm, PGMAJFAULT);
                ret = VM_FAULT_MAJOR;
+               fpin = do_sync_mmap_readahead(vmf);
 retry_find:
                page = pagecache_get_page(mapping, offset,
                                          FGP_CREAT|FGP_FOR_MMAP,
-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

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