From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753781AbdIIXDm (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Sep 2017 19:03:42 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:43076 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753722AbdIIXDe (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Sep 2017 19:03:34 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Johannes Weiner" , "Thomas Gleixner" , "Christoph Hellwig" , "David Rientjes" , "Steven Rostedt" , "Pekka Enberg" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Peter Zijlstra" , "Christoph Lameter" , "Joonsoo Kim" , "Michal Hocko" Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2017 22:47:14 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.16 110/233] slub/memcg: cure the brainless abuse of sysfs attributes In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2a02:8011:400e:2:6f00:88c8:c921:d332 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.16.48-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Thomas Gleixner commit 478fe3037b2278d276d4cd9cd0ab06c4cb2e9b32 upstream. memcg_propagate_slab_attrs() abuses the sysfs attribute file functions to propagate settings from the root kmem_cache to a newly created kmem_cache. It does that with: attr->show(root, buf); attr->store(new, buf, strlen(bug); Aside of being a lazy and absurd hackery this is broken because it does not check the return value of the show() function. Some of the show() functions return 0 w/o touching the buffer. That means in such a case the store function is called with the stale content of the previous show(). That causes nonsense like invoking kmem_cache_shrink() on a newly created kmem_cache. In the worst case it would cause handing in an uninitialized buffer. This should be rewritten proper by adding a propagate() callback to those slub_attributes which must be propagated and avoid that insane conversion to and from ASCII, but that's too large for a hot fix. Check at least the return value of the show() function, so calling store() with stale content is prevented. Steven said: "It can cause a deadlock with get_online_cpus() that has been uncovered by recent cpu hotplug and lockdep changes that Thomas and Peter have been doing. Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(cpu_hotplug.lock); lock(slab_mutex); lock(cpu_hotplug.lock); lock(slab_mutex); *** DEADLOCK ***" Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1705201244540.2255@nanos Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reported-by: Steven Rostedt Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- mm/slub.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -5066,6 +5066,7 @@ static void memcg_propagate_slab_attrs(s char mbuf[64]; char *buf; struct slab_attribute *attr = to_slab_attr(slab_attrs[i]); + ssize_t len; if (!attr || !attr->store || !attr->show) continue; @@ -5090,8 +5091,9 @@ static void memcg_propagate_slab_attrs(s buf = buffer; } - attr->show(root_cache, buf); - attr->store(s, buf, strlen(buf)); + len = attr->show(root_cache, buf); + if (len > 0) + attr->store(s, buf, len); } if (buffer)