[PATCH v1] mm: Fix use-after-free for MMU_GATHER_NO_GATHER

From: Ryan Roberts
Date: Thu Jul 27 2023 - 07:03:10 EST


The recent change to batch-zap anonymous ptes did not take into account
that for platforms where MMU_GATHER_NO_GATHER is enabled (e.g. s390),
__tlb_remove_page() drops a reference to the page. This means that the
folio reference count can drop to zero while still in use (i.e. before
folio_remove_rmap_range() is called). This does not happen on other
platforms because the actual page freeing is deferred.

Solve this by appropriately getting/putting the folio to guarrantee it
does not get freed early.

Given the new need to get/put the folio in the batch path, let's stick
to the non-batched path if the folio is not large. In this case batching
is not helpful since the batch size is 1.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx>
Fixes: 904d9713b3b0 ("mm: batch-zap large anonymous folio PTE mappings")
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20230726161942.GA1123863@dev-arch.thelio-3990X/
---

Hi Andrew,

This fixes patch 3 in the series at [1], which is currently in mm-unstable. I'm
not sure whether you want to take the fix or whether I should re-post the entire
series?

Thanks,
Ryan


mm/memory.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 2130bad76eb1..808f6408a570 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1456,6 +1456,9 @@ static unsigned long try_zap_anon_pte_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
bool full;
int i;

+ /* __tlb_remove_page drops a ref; prevent it going to 0 while in use. */
+ folio_get(folio);
+
for (i = 0; i < nr_pages;) {
ptent = ptep_get_and_clear_full(mm, addr, pte, tlb->fullmm);
tlb_remove_tlb_entry(tlb, pte, addr);
@@ -1476,6 +1479,8 @@ static unsigned long try_zap_anon_pte_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,

folio_remove_rmap_range(folio, page - i, i, vma);

+ folio_put(folio);
+
return i;
}

@@ -1526,26 +1531,33 @@ static unsigned long zap_pte_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
*/
if (page && PageAnon(page)) {
struct folio *folio = page_folio(page);
- int nr_pages_req, nr_pages;

- nr_pages_req = folio_nr_pages_cont_mapped(
- folio, page, pte, addr, end);
+ if (folio_test_large(folio)) {
+ int nr_pages_req, nr_pages;
+ int counter = mm_counter(page);

- nr_pages = try_zap_anon_pte_range(tlb, vma,
- folio, page, pte, addr,
- nr_pages_req, details);
+ nr_pages_req = folio_nr_pages_cont_mapped(
+ folio, page, pte, addr,
+ end);

- rss[mm_counter(page)] -= nr_pages;
- nr_pages--;
- pte += nr_pages;
- addr += nr_pages << PAGE_SHIFT;
+ /* folio may be freed on return. */
+ nr_pages = try_zap_anon_pte_range(
+ tlb, vma, folio, page,
+ pte, addr, nr_pages_req,
+ details);

- if (unlikely(nr_pages < nr_pages_req)) {
- force_flush = 1;
- addr += PAGE_SIZE;
- break;
+ rss[counter] -= nr_pages;
+ nr_pages--;
+ pte += nr_pages;
+ addr += nr_pages << PAGE_SHIFT;
+
+ if (unlikely(nr_pages < nr_pages_req)) {
+ force_flush = 1;
+ addr += PAGE_SIZE;
+ break;
+ }
+ continue;
}
- continue;
}

ptent = ptep_get_and_clear_full(mm, addr, pte,
--
2.25.1