tree 22cf7f1dda97d459e735a18273875f8c3018f82a
parent 4d09d0f45dd5d78b3a301c238272211d1ea7d9e6
author Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> 1484096295 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1484101915 -0800

mm: support anonymous stable page

During developemnt for zram-swap asynchronous writeback, I found strange
corruption of compressed page, resulting in:

  Modules linked in: zram(E)
  CPU: 3 PID: 1520 Comm: zramd-1 Tainted: G            E   4.8.0-mm1-00320-ge0d4894c9c38-dirty #3274
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Ubuntu-1.8.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
  task: ffff88007620b840 task.stack: ffff880078090000
  RIP: set_freeobj.part.43+0x1c/0x1f
  RSP: 0018:ffff880078093ca8  EFLAGS: 00010246
  RAX: 0000000000000018 RBX: ffff880076798d88 RCX: ffffffff81c408c8
  RDX: 0000000000000018 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000246
  RBP: ffff880078093cb0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
  R10: ffff88005bc43030 R11: 0000000000001df3 R12: ffff880076798d88
  R13: 000000000005bc43 R14: ffff88007819d1b8 R15: 0000000000000001
  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88007e380000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 00007fc934048f20 CR3: 0000000077b01000 CR4: 00000000000406e0
  Call Trace:
    obj_malloc+0x22b/0x260
    zs_malloc+0x1e4/0x580
    zram_bvec_rw+0x4cd/0x830 [zram]
    page_requests_rw+0x9c/0x130 [zram]
    zram_thread+0xe6/0x173 [zram]
    kthread+0xca/0xe0
    ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30

With investigation, it reveals currently stable page doesn't support
anonymous page.  IOW, reuse_swap_page can reuse the page without waiting
writeback completion so it can overwrite page zram is compressing.

Unfortunately, zram has used per-cpu stream feature from v4.7.
It aims for increasing cache hit ratio of scratch buffer for
compressing. Downside of that approach is that zram should ask
memory space for compressed page in per-cpu context which requires
stricted gfp flag which could be failed. If so, it retries to
allocate memory space out of per-cpu context so it could get memory
this time and compress the data again, copies it to the memory space.

In this scenario, zram assumes the data should never be changed
but it is not true unless stable page supports. So, If the data is
changed under us, zram can make buffer overrun because second
compression size could be bigger than one we got in previous trial
and blindly, copy bigger size object to smaller buffer which is
buffer overrun. The overrun breaks zsmalloc free object chaining
so system goes crash like above.

I think below is same problem.
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=997574

Unfortunately, reuse_swap_page should be atomic so that we cannot wait on
writeback in there so the approach in this patch is simply return false if
we found it needs stable page.  Although it increases memory footprint
temporarily, it happens rarely and it should be reclaimed easily althoug
it happened.  Also, It would be better than waiting of IO completion,
which is critial path for application latency.

Fixes: da9556a2367c ("zram: user per-cpu compression streams")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161120233015.GA14113@bbox
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482366980-3782-2-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Hyeoncheol Lee <cheol.lee@lge.com>
Cc: <yjay.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Sangseok Lee <sangseok.lee@lge.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.7+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>