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| author | Jann Horn | 2022-08-31 19:06:00 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2022-08-31 15:45:10 -0700 |
| commit | 2555283eb40df89945557273121e9393ef9b542b (patch) | |
| tree | ef4abf2ce0cf865cd5a07e5875f0e17853a51a00 /include | |
| parent | c5e4d5e99162ba8025d58a3af7ad103f155d2df7 (diff) | |
mm/rmap: Fix anon_vma->degree ambiguity leading to double-reuse
anon_vma->degree tracks the combined number of child anon_vmas and VMAs
that use the anon_vma as their ->anon_vma.
anon_vma_clone() then assumes that for any anon_vma attached to
src->anon_vma_chain other than src->anon_vma, it is impossible for it to
be a leaf node of the VMA tree, meaning that for such VMAs ->degree is
elevated by 1 because of a child anon_vma, meaning that if ->degree
equals 1 there are no VMAs that use the anon_vma as their ->anon_vma.
This assumption is wrong because the ->degree optimization leads to leaf
nodes being abandoned on anon_vma_clone() - an existing anon_vma is
reused and no new parent-child relationship is created. So it is
possible to reuse an anon_vma for one VMA while it is still tied to
another VMA.
This is an issue because is_mergeable_anon_vma() and its callers assume
that if two VMAs have the same ->anon_vma, the list of anon_vmas
attached to the VMAs is guaranteed to be the same. When this assumption
is violated, vma_merge() can merge pages into a VMA that is not attached
to the corresponding anon_vma, leading to dangling page->mapping
pointers that will be dereferenced during rmap walks.
Fix it by separately tracking the number of child anon_vmas and the
number of VMAs using the anon_vma as their ->anon_vma.
Fixes: 7a3ef208e662 ("mm: prevent endless growth of anon_vma hierarchy")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/rmap.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rmap.h b/include/linux/rmap.h index bf80adca980b..b89b4b86951f 100644 --- a/include/linux/rmap.h +++ b/include/linux/rmap.h @@ -41,12 +41,15 @@ struct anon_vma { atomic_t refcount; /* - * Count of child anon_vmas and VMAs which points to this anon_vma. + * Count of child anon_vmas. Equals to the count of all anon_vmas that + * have ->parent pointing to this one, including itself. * * This counter is used for making decision about reusing anon_vma * instead of forking new one. See comments in function anon_vma_clone. */ - unsigned degree; + unsigned long num_children; + /* Count of VMAs whose ->anon_vma pointer points to this object. */ + unsigned long num_active_vmas; struct anon_vma *parent; /* Parent of this anon_vma */ |