Fork of reMarkable kernel https://github.com/reMarkable/linux
![]() Add a test which shows a race in the multi-order iteration code. This test reliably hits the race in under a second on my machine, and is the result of a real bug report against kernel a production v4.15 based kernel (4.15.6-300.fc27.x86_64). With a real kernel this issue is hit when using order 9 PMD DAX radix tree entries. The race has to do with how we tear down multi-order sibling entries when we are removing an item from the tree. Remember that an order 2 entry looks like this: struct radix_tree_node.slots[] = [entry][sibling][sibling][sibling] where 'entry' is in some slot in the struct radix_tree_node, and the three slots following 'entry' contain sibling pointers which point back to 'entry.' When we delete 'entry' from the tree, we call : radix_tree_delete() radix_tree_delete_item() __radix_tree_delete() replace_slot() replace_slot() first removes the siblings in order from the first to the last, then at then replaces 'entry' with NULL. This means that for a brief period of time we end up with one or more of the siblings removed, so: struct radix_tree_node.slots[] = [entry][NULL][sibling][sibling] This causes an issue if you have a reader iterating over the slots in the tree via radix_tree_for_each_slot() while only under rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() protection. This is a common case in mm/filemap.c. The issue is that when __radix_tree_next_slot() => skip_siblings() tries to skip over the sibling entries in the slots, it currently does so with an exact match on the slot directly preceding our current slot. Normally this works: V preceding slot struct radix_tree_node.slots[] = [entry][sibling][sibling][sibling] ^ current slot This lets you find the first sibling, and you skip them all in order. But in the case where one of the siblings is NULL, that slot is skipped and then our sibling detection is interrupted: V preceding slot struct radix_tree_node.slots[] = [entry][NULL][sibling][sibling] ^ current slot This means that the sibling pointers aren't recognized since they point all the way back to 'entry', so we think that they are normal internal radix tree pointers. This causes us to think we need to walk down to a struct radix_tree_node starting at the address of 'entry'. In a real running kernel this will crash the thread with a GP fault when you try and dereference the slots in your broken node starting at 'entry'. In the radix tree test suite this will be caught by the address sanitizer: ==27063==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x60c0008ae400 at pc 0x00000040ce4f bp 0x7fa89b8fcad0 sp 0x7fa89b8fcac0 READ of size 8 at 0x60c0008ae400 thread T3 #0 0x40ce4e in __radix_tree_next_slot /home/rzwisler/project/linux/tools/testing/radix-tree/radix-tree.c:1660 #1 0x4022cc in radix_tree_next_slot linux/../../../../include/linux/radix-tree.h:567 #2 0x4022cc in iterator_func /home/rzwisler/project/linux/tools/testing/radix-tree/multiorder.c:655 #3 0x7fa8a088d50a in start_thread (/lib64/libpthread.so.0+0x750a) #4 0x7fa8a03bd16e in clone (/lib64/libc.so.6+0xf516e) Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180503192430.7582-5-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: CR, Sapthagirish <sapthagirish.cr@intel.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.