From: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>

commit 3e8589963773a5c23e2f1fe4bcad0e9a90b7f471 upstream.

We have a single node system with node 0 disabled:
  Scanning NUMA topology in Northbridge 24
  Number of physical nodes 2
  Skipping disabled node 0
  Node 1 MemBase 0000000000000000 Limit 00000000fbff0000
  NODE_DATA(1) allocated [mem 0xfbfda000-0xfbfeffff]

This causes crashes in memcg when system boots:
  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
  #PF error: [normal kernel read fault]
...
  RIP: 0010:list_lru_add+0x94/0x170
...
  Call Trace:
   d_lru_add+0x44/0x50
   dput.part.34+0xfc/0x110
   __fput+0x108/0x230
   task_work_run+0x9f/0xc0
   exit_to_usermode_loop+0xf5/0x100

It is reproducible as far as 4.12.  I did not try older kernels.  You have
to have a new enough systemd, e.g.  241 (the reason is unknown -- was not
investigated).  Cannot be reproduced with systemd 234.

The system crashes because the size of lru array is never updated in
memcg_update_all_list_lrus and the reads are past the zero-sized array,
causing dereferences of random memory.

The root cause are list_lru_memcg_aware checks in the list_lru code.  The
test in list_lru_memcg_aware is broken: it assumes node 0 is always
present, but it is not true on some systems as can be seen above.

So fix this by avoiding checks on node 0.  Remember the memcg-awareness by
a bool flag in struct list_lru.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Fixes: 60d3fd32a7a9 ("list_lru: introduce per-memcg lists")
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Vladimir Davydov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <[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]>

---
 include/linux/list_lru.h |    1 +
 mm/list_lru.c            |    8 +++-----
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/list_lru.h
+++ b/include/linux/list_lru.h
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ struct list_lru {
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
        struct list_head        list;
        int                     shrinker_id;
+       bool                    memcg_aware;
 #endif
 };
 
--- a/mm/list_lru.c
+++ b/mm/list_lru.c
@@ -37,11 +37,7 @@ static int lru_shrinker_id(struct list_l
 
 static inline bool list_lru_memcg_aware(struct list_lru *lru)
 {
-       /*
-        * This needs node 0 to be always present, even
-        * in the systems supporting sparse numa ids.
-        */
-       return !!lru->node[0].memcg_lrus;
+       return lru->memcg_aware;
 }
 
 static inline struct list_lru_one *
@@ -451,6 +447,8 @@ static int memcg_init_list_lru(struct li
 {
        int i;
 
+       lru->memcg_aware = memcg_aware;
+
        if (!memcg_aware)
                return 0;
 


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