[BUG mm-unstable] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in shrink_folio_list+0x9f4/0x1ae0

Hyeonggon Yoo 42.hyeyoo at gmail.com
Sat Jul 8 04:27:42 AEST 2023


On Fri, Jul 07, 2023 at 02:12:06PM -0400, David Wysochanski wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 7, 2023 at 12:46 PM Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 8, 2023 at 1:39 AM Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 11:48:52AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> > > > Fscache has an optimisation by which reads from the cache are skipped until
> > > > we know that (a) there's data there to be read and (b) that data isn't
> > > > entirely covered by pages resident in the netfs pagecache.  This is done
> > > > with two flags manipulated by fscache_note_page_release():
> > > >
> > > >       if (...
> > > >           test_bit(FSCACHE_COOKIE_HAVE_DATA, &cookie->flags) &&
> > > >           test_bit(FSCACHE_COOKIE_NO_DATA_TO_READ, &cookie->flags))
> > > >               clear_bit(FSCACHE_COOKIE_NO_DATA_TO_READ, &cookie->flags);
> > > >
> > > > where the NO_DATA_TO_READ flag causes cachefiles_prepare_read() to indicate
> > > > that netfslib should download from the server or clear the page instead.
> > > >
> > > > The fscache_note_page_release() function is intended to be called from
> > > > ->releasepage() - but that only gets called if PG_private or PG_private_2
> > > > is set - and currently the former is at the discretion of the network
> > > > filesystem and the latter is only set whilst a page is being written to the
> > > > cache, so sometimes we miss clearing the optimisation.
> > > >
> > > > Fix this by following Willy's suggestion[1] and adding an address_space
> > > > flag, AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS, that causes filemap_release_folio() to always call
> > > > ->release_folio() if it's set, even if PG_private or PG_private_2 aren't
> > > > set.
> > > >
> > > > Note that this would require folio_test_private() and page_has_private() to
> > > > become more complicated.  To avoid that, in the places[*] where these are
> > > > used to conditionalise calls to filemap_release_folio() and
> > > > try_to_release_page(), the tests are removed the those functions just
> > > > jumped to unconditionally and the test is performed there.
> > > >
> > > > [*] There are some exceptions in vmscan.c where the check guards more than
> > > > just a call to the releaser.  I've added a function, folio_needs_release()
> > > > to wrap all the checks for that.
> > > >
> > > > AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS should be set if a non-NULL cookie is obtained from
> > > > fscache and cleared in ->evict_inode() before truncate_inode_pages_final()
> > > > is called.
> > > >
> > > > Additionally, the FSCACHE_COOKIE_NO_DATA_TO_READ flag needs to be cleared
> > > > and the optimisation cancelled if a cachefiles object already contains data
> > > > when we open it.
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: 1f67e6d0b188 ("fscache: Provide a function to note the release of a page")
> > > > Fixes: 047487c947e8 ("cachefiles: Implement the I/O routines")
> > > > Reported-by: Rohith Surabattula <rohiths.msft at gmail.com>
> > > > Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy at infradead.org>
> > > > Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
> > >
> > > Hi David,
> > >
> > > I was bisecting a use-after-free BUG on the latest mm-unstable,
> > > where HEAD is 347e208de0e4 ("rmap: pass the folio to __page_check_anon_rmap()").
> > >
> > > According to my bisection, this is the first bad commit.
> > > Use-After-Free is triggered on reclamation path when swap is enabled.
> >
> > This was originally occurred during kernel compilation but
> > can easily be reproduced via:
> >
> > stress-ng --bigheap $(nproc)
> >
> > > (and couldn't trigger without swap enabled)
> > >
> > > the config, KASAN splat, bisect log are attached.
> > > hope this isn't too late :(
> > >
> > > > cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy at infradead.org>
> > > > cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
> > > > cc: Steve French <sfrench at samba.org>
> > > > cc: Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore at gmail.com>
> > > > cc: Rohith Surabattula <rohiths.msft at gmail.com>
> > > > cc: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha at redhat.com>
> > > > cc: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus at codewreck.org>
> > > > cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov at gmail.com>
> > > > cc: linux-cachefs at redhat.com
> > > > cc: linux-cifs at vger.kernel.org
> > > > cc: linux-afs at lists.infradead.org
> > > > cc: v9fs-developer at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > > cc: ceph-devel at vger.kernel.org
> > > > cc: linux-nfs at vger.kernel.org
> > > > cc: linux-fsdevel at vger.kernel.org
> > > > cc: linux-mm at kvack.org
> > > > ---
> > > >
> > > > Notes:
> > > >     ver #7)
> > > >      - Make NFS set AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS.
> > > >
> > > >     ver #4)
> > > >      - Split out merging of folio_has_private()/filemap_release_folio() call
> > > >        pairs into a preceding patch.
> > > >      - Don't need to clear AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS in ->evict_inode().
> > > >
> > > >     ver #3)
> > > >      - Fixed mapping_clear_release_always() to use clear_bit() not set_bit().
> > > >      - Moved a '&&' to the correct line.
> > > >
> > > >     ver #2)
> > > >      - Rewrote entirely according to Willy's suggestion[1].
> > > >
> > > >  fs/9p/cache.c           |  2 ++
> > > >  fs/afs/internal.h       |  2 ++
> > > >  fs/cachefiles/namei.c   |  2 ++
> > > >  fs/ceph/cache.c         |  2 ++
> > > >  fs/nfs/fscache.c        |  3 +++
> > > >  fs/smb/client/fscache.c |  2 ++
> > > >  include/linux/pagemap.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> > > >  mm/internal.h           |  5 ++++-
> > > >  8 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> 
> I think myself / Daire Byrne may have already tracked this down and I
> found a 1-liner that fixed a similar crash in his environment.
> 
> Can you try this patch on top and let me know if it still crashes?
> https://github.com/DaveWysochanskiRH/kernel/commit/902c990e311120179fa5de99d68364b2947b79ec

Oh, it does not crash with the patch applied.

Hmm, was it UAF because it references wrong field ->mapping,
instead of swapper address space?



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