ksm: fix conflict between mmput and scan_get_next_rmap_item
A concurrency issue about KSM in the function scan_get_next_rmap_item.
task A (ksmd): |task B (the mm's task):
|
mm = slot->mm; |
down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); |
|
... |
|
spin_lock(&ksm_mmlist_lock); |
|
ksm_scan.mm_slot go to the next slot; |
|
spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock); |
|mmput() ->
| ksm_exit():
|
|spin_lock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
|if (mm_slot && ksm_scan.mm_slot != mm_slot) {
| if (!mm_slot->rmap_list) {
| easy_to_free = 1;
| ...
|
|if (easy_to_free) {
| mmdrop(mm);
| ...
|
|So this mm_struct may be freed in the mmput().
|
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); |
As we can see above, the ksmd thread may access a mm_struct that already
been freed to the kmem_cache. Suppose a fork will get this mm_struct from
the kmem_cache, the ksmd thread then call up_read(&mm->mmap_sem), will
cause mmap_sem.count to become -1.
As suggested by Andrea Arcangeli, unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items has
the same SMP race condition, so fix it too. My prev fix in function
scan_get_next_rmap_item will introduce a different SMP race condition, so
just invert the up_read/spin_unlock order as Andrea Arcangeli said.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462708815-31301-1-git-send-email-zhouchengming1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Zhou Chengming <zhouchengming1@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>
Cc: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Cc: Li Bin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
Cc: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index b99e8281..4786b41 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -783,6 +783,7 @@
}
remove_trailing_rmap_items(mm_slot, &mm_slot->rmap_list);
+ up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
spin_lock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
ksm_scan.mm_slot = list_entry(mm_slot->mm_list.next,
@@ -794,12 +795,9 @@
free_mm_slot(mm_slot);
clear_bit(MMF_VM_MERGEABLE, &mm->flags);
- up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
mmdrop(mm);
- } else {
+ } else
spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
- up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
- }
}
/* Clean up stable nodes, but don't worry if some are still busy */
@@ -1663,8 +1661,15 @@
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
mmdrop(mm);
} else {
- spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ /*
+ * up_read(&mm->mmap_sem) first because after
+ * spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock) run, the "mm" may
+ * already have been freed under us by __ksm_exit()
+ * because the "mm_slot" is still hashed and
+ * ksm_scan.mm_slot doesn't point to it anymore.
+ */
+ spin_unlock(&ksm_mmlist_lock);
}
/* Repeat until we've completed scanning the whole list */