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author | Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> | 2020-10-13 16:56:04 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-10-13 18:38:33 -0700 |
commit | e320d3012d25b1fb5f3df4edb7bd44a1c362ec10 (patch) | |
tree | 045231cbb1f31c38cbb22189a08d284398fc09ae /lib | |
parent | a9b576f7253e22528584f5aeb46edf0b6b007992 (diff) | |
download | lwn-e320d3012d25b1fb5f3df4edb7bd44a1c362ec10.tar.gz lwn-e320d3012d25b1fb5f3df4edb7bd44a1c362ec10.zip |
mm/page_alloc.c: fix freeing non-compound pages
Here is a very rare race which leaks memory:
Page P0 is allocated to the page cache. Page P1 is free.
Thread A Thread B Thread C
find_get_entry():
xas_load() returns P0
Removes P0 from page cache
P0 finds its buddy P1
alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 1) returns P0
P0 has refcount 1
page_cache_get_speculative(P0)
P0 has refcount 2
__free_pages(P0)
P0 has refcount 1
put_page(P0)
P1 is not freed
Fix this by freeing all the pages in __free_pages() that won't be freed
by the call to put_page(). It's usually not a good idea to split a page,
but this is a very unlikely scenario.
Fixes: e286781d5f2e ("mm: speculative page references")
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200926213919.26642-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 9 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | lib/Makefile | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | lib/test_free_pages.c | 42 |
3 files changed, 52 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 0c781f912f9f..491789a793ae 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -2367,6 +2367,15 @@ config TEST_HMM If unsure, say N. +config TEST_FREE_PAGES + tristate "Test freeing pages" + help + Test that a memory leak does not occur due to a race between + freeing a block of pages and a speculative page reference. + Loading this module is safe if your kernel has the bug fixed. + If the bug is not fixed, it will leak gigabytes of memory and + probably OOM your system. + config TEST_FPU tristate "Test floating point operations in kernel space" depends on X86 && !KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile index d4af75136c54..49a2a9e36224 100644 --- a/lib/Makefile +++ b/lib/Makefile @@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_BLACKHOLE_DEV) += test_blackhole_dev.o obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_MEMINIT) += test_meminit.o obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_LOCKUP) += test_lockup.o obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_HMM) += test_hmm.o +obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_FREE_PAGES) += test_free_pages.o # # CFLAGS for compiling floating point code inside the kernel. x86/Makefile turns diff --git a/lib/test_free_pages.c b/lib/test_free_pages.c new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..074e76bd76b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/test_free_pages.c @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ +/* + * test_free_pages.c: Check that free_pages() doesn't leak memory + * Copyright (c) 2020 Oracle + * Author: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> + */ + +#include <linux/gfp.h> +#include <linux/mm.h> +#include <linux/module.h> + +static void test_free_pages(gfp_t gfp) +{ + unsigned int i; + + for (i = 0; i < 1000 * 1000; i++) { + unsigned long addr = __get_free_pages(gfp, 3); + struct page *page = virt_to_page(addr); + + /* Simulate page cache getting a speculative reference */ + get_page(page); + free_pages(addr, 3); + put_page(page); + } +} + +static int m_in(void) +{ + test_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL); + test_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_COMP); + + return 0; +} + +static void m_ex(void) +{ +} + +module_init(m_in); +module_exit(m_ex); +MODULE_AUTHOR("Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>"); +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); |