| From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [ 104/120] mempolicy: fix a memory corruption by refcount imbalance in alloc_pages_vma() | Date | Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:00:56 +0900 |
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3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
commit 00442ad04a5eac08a98255697c510e708f6082e2 upstream.
Commit cc9a6c877661 ("cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3") introduced a potential memory corruption. shmem_alloc_page() uses a pseudo vma and it has one significant unique combination, vma->vm_ops=NULL and vma->policy->flags & MPOL_F_SHARED.
get_vma_policy() does NOT increase a policy ref when vma->vm_ops=NULL and mpol_cond_put() DOES decrease a policy ref when a policy has MPOL_F_SHARED. Therefore, when a cpuset update race occurs, alloc_pages_vma() falls in 'goto retry_cpuset' path, decrements the reference count and frees the policy prematurely.
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
--- mm/mempolicy.c | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -1532,8 +1532,18 @@ struct mempolicy *get_vma_policy(struct addr); if (vpol) pol = vpol; - } else if (vma->vm_policy) + } else if (vma->vm_policy) { pol = vma->vm_policy; + + /* + * shmem_alloc_page() passes MPOL_F_SHARED policy with + * a pseudo vma whose vma->vm_ops=NULL. Take a reference + * count on these policies which will be dropped by + * mpol_cond_put() later + */ + if (mpol_needs_cond_ref(pol)) + mpol_get(pol); + } } if (!pol) pol = &default_policy;
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