[PATCH] mm: workingset: fix use-after-free in shadow node shrinker

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Fri Jan 06 2017 - 19:21:43 EST


Several people report seeing warnings about inconsistent radix tree
nodes followed by crashes in the workingset code, which all looked
like use-after-free access from the shadow node shrinker. Dave Jones
managed to reproduce the issue with a debug patch applied, which
confirmed that the radix tree shrinking indeed frees shadow nodes
while they are still linked to the shadow LRU:

WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 53 at lib/radix-tree.c:643 delete_node+0x1e4/0x200
CPU: 2 PID: 53 Comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 4.10.0-rc2-think+ #3
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x4f/0x73
__warn+0xcb/0xf0
warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20
delete_node+0x1e4/0x200
__radix_tree_delete_node+0xd/0x10
shadow_lru_isolate+0xe6/0x220
__list_lru_walk_one.isra.4+0x9b/0x190
? memcg_drain_all_list_lrus+0x1d0/0x1d0
list_lru_walk_one+0x23/0x30
scan_shadow_nodes+0x2e/0x40
shrink_slab.part.44+0x23d/0x5d0
? 0xffffffffa023a077
shrink_node+0x22c/0x330
kswapd+0x392/0x8f0

This is the WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&node->private_list)) placed in
the inlined radix_tree_shrink().

The problem is with 14b468791fa9 ("mm: workingset: move shadow entry
tracking to radix tree exceptional tracking"), which passes an update
callback into the radix tree to link and unlink shadow leaf nodes when
tree entries change, but forgot to pass the callback when reclaiming a
shadow node. While the reclaimed shadow node itself is unlinked by the
shrinker, its deletion from the tree can cause the left-most leaf node
in the tree to be shrunk. If that happens to be a shadow node as well,
we don't unlink it from the LRU as we should.

Consider this tree, where the s are shadow entries:

root->rnode
|
[0 n]
| |
[s ] [sssss]

Now the shadow node shrinker reclaims the rightmost leaf node through
the shadow node LRU:

root->rnode
|
[0 ]
|
[s ]

Because the parent of the deleted node is the first level below the
root and has only one child in the left-most slot, the intermediate
level is shrunk and the node containing the single shadow is put in
its place:

root->rnode
|
[s ]

The shrinker again sees a single left-most slot in a first level node
and thus decides to store the shadow in root->rnode directly and free
the node - which is a leaf node on the shadow node LRU.

root->rnode
|
s

Without the update callback, the freed node remains on the shadow LRU,
where it causes later shrinker runs to crash.

Pass the node updater callback into __radix_tree_delete_node() in case
the deletion causes the left-most branch in the tree to collapse too.

Also add warnings when linked nodes are freed right away, rather than
wait for the use-after-free when the list is scanned much later.

Fixes: 14b468791fa9 ("mm: workingset: move shadow entry tracking to radix tree exceptional tracking")
Reported-by: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/radix-tree.h | 4 +++-
lib/radix-tree.c | 11 +++++++++--
mm/workingset.c | 3 ++-
3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/radix-tree.h b/include/linux/radix-tree.h
index 5dea8f6440e4..52bda854593b 100644
--- a/include/linux/radix-tree.h
+++ b/include/linux/radix-tree.h
@@ -306,7 +306,9 @@ void radix_tree_iter_replace(struct radix_tree_root *,
void radix_tree_replace_slot(struct radix_tree_root *root,
void **slot, void *item);
void __radix_tree_delete_node(struct radix_tree_root *root,
- struct radix_tree_node *node);
+ struct radix_tree_node *node,
+ radix_tree_update_node_t update_node,
+ void *private);
void *radix_tree_delete_item(struct radix_tree_root *, unsigned long, void *);
void *radix_tree_delete(struct radix_tree_root *, unsigned long);
void radix_tree_clear_tags(struct radix_tree_root *root,
diff --git a/lib/radix-tree.c b/lib/radix-tree.c
index 6f382e07de77..0b92d605fb69 100644
--- a/lib/radix-tree.c
+++ b/lib/radix-tree.c
@@ -640,6 +640,7 @@ static inline void radix_tree_shrink(struct radix_tree_root *root,
update_node(node, private);
}

+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&node->private_list));
radix_tree_node_free(node);
}
}
@@ -666,6 +667,7 @@ static void delete_node(struct radix_tree_root *root,
root->rnode = NULL;
}

+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&node->private_list));
radix_tree_node_free(node);

node = parent;
@@ -767,6 +769,7 @@ static void radix_tree_free_nodes(struct radix_tree_node *node)
struct radix_tree_node *old = child;
offset = child->offset + 1;
child = child->parent;
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&node->private_list));
radix_tree_node_free(old);
if (old == entry_to_node(node))
return;
@@ -1824,15 +1827,19 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(radix_tree_gang_lookup_tag_slot);
* __radix_tree_delete_node - try to free node after clearing a slot
* @root: radix tree root
* @node: node containing @index
+ * @update_node: callback for changing leaf nodes
+ * @private: private data to pass to @update_node
*
* After clearing the slot at @index in @node from radix tree
* rooted at @root, call this function to attempt freeing the
* node and shrinking the tree.
*/
void __radix_tree_delete_node(struct radix_tree_root *root,
- struct radix_tree_node *node)
+ struct radix_tree_node *node,
+ radix_tree_update_node_t update_node,
+ void *private)
{
- delete_node(root, node, NULL, NULL);
+ delete_node(root, node, update_node, private);
}

/**
diff --git a/mm/workingset.c b/mm/workingset.c
index 241fa5d6b3b2..abb58ffa3c64 100644
--- a/mm/workingset.c
+++ b/mm/workingset.c
@@ -473,7 +473,8 @@ static enum lru_status shadow_lru_isolate(struct list_head *item,
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(node->exceptional))
goto out_invalid;
inc_node_state(page_pgdat(virt_to_page(node)), WORKINGSET_NODERECLAIM);
- __radix_tree_delete_node(&mapping->page_tree, node);
+ __radix_tree_delete_node(&mapping->page_tree, node,
+ workingset_update_node, mapping);

out_invalid:
spin_unlock(&mapping->tree_lock);
--
2.10.2