tree c41168558a5a5a200edde341161af605c4fe61bc
parent c63c50fc2ec9afc4de21ef9ead2eac64b178cce1
author Chunguang Xu <brookxu@tencent.com> 1584840130 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1584842166 -0700

memcg: fix NULL pointer dereference in __mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event

An eventfd monitors multiple memory thresholds of the cgroup, closes them,
the kernel deletes all events related to this eventfd.  Before all events
are deleted, another eventfd monitors the memory threshold of this cgroup,
leading to a crash:

  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000004
  #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
  #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
  PGD 800000033058e067 P4D 800000033058e067 PUD 3355ce067 PMD 0
  Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP PTI
  CPU: 2 PID: 14012 Comm: kworker/2:6 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.6.0-rc4 #3
  Hardware name: LENOVO 20AWS01K00/20AWS01K00, BIOS GLET70WW (2.24 ) 05/21/2014
  Workqueue: events memcg_event_remove
  RIP: 0010:__mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event+0xb3/0x190
  RSP: 0018:ffffb47e01c4fe18 EFLAGS: 00010202
  RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff8bb223a8a000 RCX: 0000000000000001
  RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffff8bb22fb83540 RDI: 0000000000000001
  RBP: ffffb47e01c4fe48 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000010
  R10: 000000000000000c R11: 071c71c71c71c71c R12: ffff8bb226aba880
  R13: ffff8bb223a8a480 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8bb242680000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 0000000000000004 CR3: 000000032c29c003 CR4: 00000000001606e0
  Call Trace:
    memcg_event_remove+0x32/0x90
    process_one_work+0x172/0x380
    worker_thread+0x49/0x3f0
    kthread+0xf8/0x130
    ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
  CR2: 0000000000000004

We can reproduce this problem in the following ways:

1. We create a new cgroup subdirectory and a new eventfd, and then we
   monitor multiple memory thresholds of the cgroup through this eventfd.

2.  closing this eventfd, and __mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event ()
   will be called multiple times to delete all events related to this
   eventfd.

The first time __mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event() is called, the
kernel will clear all items related to this eventfd in thresholds->
primary.

Since there is currently only one eventfd, thresholds-> primary becomes
empty, so the kernel will set thresholds-> primary and hresholds-> spare
to NULL.  If at this time, the user creates a new eventfd and monitor
the memory threshold of this cgroup, kernel will re-initialize
thresholds-> primary.

Then when __mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event () is called for the
second time, because thresholds-> primary is not empty, the system will
access thresholds-> spare, but thresholds-> spare is NULL, which will
trigger a crash.

In general, the longer it takes to delete all events related to this
eventfd, the easier it is to trigger this problem.

The solution is to check whether the thresholds associated with the
eventfd has been cleared when deleting the event.  If so, we do nothing.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment, per Kirill]
Fixes: 907860ed381a ("cgroups: make cftype.unregister_event() void-returning")
Signed-off-by: Chunguang Xu <brookxu@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/077a6f67-aefa-4591-efec-f2f3af2b0b02@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>