On Wed 18-12-13 17:16:57, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> We update root cache's memcg_params whenever we need to grow the
> memcg_caches array to accommodate all kmem-active memory cgroups.
> Currently we free the old version immediately then, which can lead to
> use-after-free, because the memcg_caches array is accessed lock-free.
> This patch fixes this by making memcg_params RCU-protected.
yes, I was thinking about something like this when talking about RCU
usage.
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavy...@parallels.com>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.cz>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org>
> Cc: Glauber Costa <glom...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com>
> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penb...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
> ---
> include/linux/slab.h | 5 ++++-
> mm/memcontrol.c | 15 ++++++++-------
> mm/slab.h | 8 +++++++-
> 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
> index 1e2f4fe..f7e5649 100644
> --- a/include/linux/slab.h
> +++ b/include/linux/slab.h
> @@ -528,7 +528,10 @@ static __always_inline void *kmalloc_node(size_t size,
> gfp_t flags, int node)
> struct memcg_cache_params {
> bool is_root_cache;
> union {
> - struct kmem_cache *memcg_caches[0];
> + struct {
> + struct rcu_head rcu_head;
> + struct kmem_cache *memcg_caches[0];
> + };
> struct {
> struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
> struct list_head list;
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index ad8de6a..379fc5f 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -3142,18 +3142,17 @@ int memcg_update_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *s, int
> num_groups)
>
> if (num_groups > memcg_limited_groups_array_size) {
> int i;
> + struct memcg_cache_params *new_params;
> ssize_t size = memcg_caches_array_size(num_groups);
>
> size *= sizeof(void *);
> size += offsetof(struct memcg_cache_params, memcg_caches);
>
> - s->memcg_params = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!s->memcg_params) {
> - s->memcg_params = cur_params;
> + new_params = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!new_params)
> return -ENOMEM;
> - }
>
> - s->memcg_params->is_root_cache = true;
> + new_params->is_root_cache = true;
>
> /*
> * There is the chance it will be bigger than
> @@ -3167,7 +3166,7 @@ int memcg_update_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *s, int
> num_groups)
> for (i = 0; i < memcg_limited_groups_array_size; i++) {
> if (!cur_params->memcg_caches[i])
> continue;
> - s->memcg_params->memcg_caches[i] =
> + new_params->memcg_caches[i] =
> cur_params->memcg_caches[i];
> }
>
> @@ -3180,7 +3179,9 @@ int memcg_update_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *s, int
> num_groups)
> * bigger than the others. And all updates will reset this
> * anyway.
> */
> - kfree(cur_params);
> + rcu_assign_pointer(s->memcg_params, new_params);
> + if (cur_params)
> + kfree_rcu(cur_params, rcu_head);
> }
> return 0;
> }
> diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h
> index 1d8b53f..53b81a9 100644
> --- a/mm/slab.h
> +++ b/mm/slab.h
> @@ -164,10 +164,16 @@ static inline struct kmem_cache *
> cache_from_memcg_idx(struct kmem_cache *s, int idx)
> {
> struct kmem_cache *cachep;
> + struct memcg_cache_params *params;
>
> if (!s->memcg_params)
> return NULL;
> - cachep = s->memcg_params->memcg_caches[idx];
> +
> + rcu_read_lock();
> + params = rcu_dereference(s->memcg_params);
> + cachep = params->memcg_caches[idx];
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> +
Consumer has to be covered by the same rcu section otherwise
memcg_params might be freed right after rcu unlock here.
> smp_read_barrier_depends(); /* see memcg_register_cache() */
> return cachep;
> }
> --
> 1.7.10.4
>
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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