[PATCH 4.19 092/131] mm/ksm: fix NULL pointer dereference when KSM zero page is enabled

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Apr 28 2020 - 14:51:09 EST


From: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 56df70a63ed5d989c1d36deee94cae14342be6e9 upstream.

find_mergeable_vma() can return NULL. In this case, it leads to a crash
when we access vm_mm(its offset is 0x40) later in write_protect_page.
And this case did happen on our server. The following call trace is
captured in kernel 4.19 with the following patch applied and KSM zero
page enabled on our server.

commit e86c59b1b12d ("mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring")

So add a vma check to fix it.

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000040
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
CPU: 9 PID: 510 Comm: ksmd Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE 4.19.36.bsk.9-amd64 #4.19.36.bsk.9
RIP: try_to_merge_one_page+0xc7/0x760
Code: 24 58 65 48 33 34 25 28 00 00 00 89 e8 0f 85 a3 06 00 00 48 83 c4
60 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 48 8b 46 08 a8 01 75 b8 <49>
8b 44 24 40 4c 8d 7c 24 20 b9 07 00 00 00 4c 89 e6 4c 89 ff 48
RSP: 0018:ffffadbdd9fffdb0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffffda83ffd4be08 RBX: ffffda83ffd4be40 RCX: 0000002c6e800000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffda83ffd4be40 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffa11939f02ec0 R08: 0000000094e1a447 R09: 00000000abe76577
R10: 0000000000000962 R11: 0000000000004e6a R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffffda83b1e06380 R14: ffffa18f31f072c0 R15: ffffda83ffd4be40
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa0da43b80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000040 CR3: 0000002c77c0a003 CR4: 00000000007626e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
ksm_scan_thread+0x115e/0x1960
kthread+0xf5/0x130
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

[songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx: if the vma is out of date, just exit]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416025034.29780-1-songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: add the conventional braces, replace /** with /*]
Fixes: e86c59b1b12d ("mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring")
Co-developed-by: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@xxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416025034.29780-1-songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200414132905.83819-1-songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
mm/ksm.c | 12 ++++++++++--
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -2106,8 +2106,16 @@ static void cmp_and_merge_page(struct pa

down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
vma = find_mergeable_vma(mm, rmap_item->address);
- err = try_to_merge_one_page(vma, page,
- ZERO_PAGE(rmap_item->address));
+ if (vma) {
+ err = try_to_merge_one_page(vma, page,
+ ZERO_PAGE(rmap_item->address));
+ } else {
+ /*
+ * If the vma is out of date, we do not need to
+ * continue.
+ */
+ err = 0;
+ }
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
/*
* In case of failure, the page was not really empty, so we