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<updated>2024-12-14T18:50:38+00:00</updated>
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<title>mm: unconditionally close VMAs on error</title>
<updated>2024-12-14T18:50:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes</name>
<email>lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com</email>
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<published>2024-11-15T12:38:14+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4080ef1579b2413435413988d14ac8c68e4d42c8 ]

Incorrect invocation of VMA callbacks when the VMA is no longer in a
consistent state is bug prone and risky to perform.

With regards to the important vm_ops-&gt;close() callback We have gone to
great lengths to try to track whether or not we ought to close VMAs.

Rather than doing so and risking making a mistake somewhere, instead
unconditionally close and reset vma-&gt;vm_ops to an empty dummy operations
set with a NULL .close operator.

We introduce a new function to do so - vma_close() - and simplify existing
vms logic which tracked whether we needed to close or not.

This simplifies the logic, avoids incorrect double-calling of the .close()
callback and allows us to update error paths to simply call vma_close()
unconditionally - making VMA closure idempotent.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/28e89dda96f68c505cb6f8e9fc9b57c3e9f74b42.1730224667.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Fixes: deb0f6562884 ("mm/mmap: undo -&gt;mmap() when arch_validate_flags() fails")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: avoid unsafe VMA hook invocation when error arises on mmap hook</title>
<updated>2024-12-14T18:50:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes</name>
<email>lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-15T12:38:13+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 3dd6ed34ce1f2356a77fb88edafb5ec96784e3cf ]

Patch series "fix error handling in mmap_region() and refactor
(hotfixes)", v4.

mmap_region() is somewhat terrifying, with spaghetti-like control flow and
numerous means by which issues can arise and incomplete state, memory
leaks and other unpleasantness can occur.

A large amount of the complexity arises from trying to handle errors late
in the process of mapping a VMA, which forms the basis of recently
observed issues with resource leaks and observable inconsistent state.

This series goes to great lengths to simplify how mmap_region() works and
to avoid unwinding errors late on in the process of setting up the VMA for
the new mapping, and equally avoids such operations occurring while the
VMA is in an inconsistent state.

The patches in this series comprise the minimal changes required to
resolve existing issues in mmap_region() error handling, in order that
they can be hotfixed and backported.  There is additionally a follow up
series which goes further, separated out from the v1 series and sent and
updated separately.

This patch (of 5):

After an attempted mmap() fails, we are no longer in a situation where we
can safely interact with VMA hooks.  This is currently not enforced,
meaning that we need complicated handling to ensure we do not incorrectly
call these hooks.

We can avoid the whole issue by treating the VMA as suspect the moment
that the file-&gt;f_ops-&gt;mmap() function reports an error by replacing
whatever VMA operations were installed with a dummy empty set of VMA
operations.

We do so through a new helper function internal to mm - mmap_file() -
which is both more logically named than the existing call_mmap() function
and correctly isolates handling of the vm_op reassignment to mm.

All the existing invocations of call_mmap() outside of mm are ultimately
nested within the call_mmap() from mm, which we now replace.

It is therefore safe to leave call_mmap() in place as a convenience
    function (and to avoid churn).  The invokers are:

     ovl_file_operations -&gt; mmap -&gt; ovl_mmap() -&gt; backing_file_mmap()
    coda_file_operations -&gt; mmap -&gt; coda_file_mmap()
     shm_file_operations -&gt; shm_mmap()
shm_file_operations_huge -&gt; shm_mmap()
            dma_buf_fops -&gt; dma_buf_mmap_internal -&gt; i915_dmabuf_ops
                            -&gt; i915_gem_dmabuf_mmap()

None of these callers interact with vm_ops or mappings in a problematic
way on error, quickly exiting out.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1730224667.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d41fd763496fd0048a962f3fd9407dc72dd4fd86.1730224667.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Fixes: deb0f6562884 ("mm/mmap: undo -&gt;mmap() when arch_validate_flags() fails")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: only enforce minimum stack gap size if it's sensible</title>
<updated>2024-10-17T13:11:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gow</name>
<email>davidgow@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-03T07:46:41+00:00</published>
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commit 69b50d4351ed924f29e3d46b159e28f70dfc707f upstream.

The generic mmap_base code tries to leave a gap between the top of the
stack and the mmap base address, but enforces a minimum gap size (MIN_GAP)
of 128MB, which is too large on some setups.  In particular, on arm tasks
without ADDR_LIMIT_32BIT, the STACK_TOP value is less than 128MB, so it's
impossible to fit such a gap in.

Only enforce this minimum if MIN_GAP &lt; MAX_GAP, as we'd prefer to honour
MAX_GAP, which is defined proportionally, so scales better and always
leaves us with both _some_ stack space and some room for mmap.

This fixes the usercopy KUnit test suite on 32-bit arm, as it doesn't set
any personality flags so gets the default (in this case 26-bit) task size.
This test can be run with: ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch arm
usercopy --make_options LLVM=1

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240803074642.1849623-2-davidgow@google.com
Fixes: dba79c3df4a2 ("arm: use generic mmap top-down layout and brk randomization")
Signed-off-by: David Gow &lt;davidgow@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alex@ghiti.fr&gt;
Cc: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: dump vmalloc memory info safely</title>
<updated>2023-09-19T10:22:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zqiang</name>
<email>qiang.zhang1211@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-04T18:08:05+00:00</published>
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commit c83ad36a18c02c0f51280b50272327807916987f upstream.

Currently, for double invoke call_rcu(), will dump rcu_head objects memory
info, if the objects is not allocated from the slab allocator, the
vmalloc_dump_obj() will be invoke and the vmap_area_lock spinlock need to
be held, since the call_rcu() can be invoked in interrupt context,
therefore, there is a possibility of spinlock deadlock scenarios.

And in Preempt-RT kernel, the rcutorture test also trigger the following
lockdep warning:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper/0
preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 1
3 locks held by swapper/0/1:
 #0: ffffffffb534ee80 (fullstop_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: torture_init_begin+0x24/0xa0
 #1: ffffffffb5307940 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_torture_init+0x1ec7/0x2370
 #2: ffffffffb536af40 (vmap_area_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: find_vmap_area+0x1f/0x70
irq event stamp: 565512
hardirqs last  enabled at (565511): [&lt;ffffffffb379b138&gt;] __call_rcu_common+0x218/0x940
hardirqs last disabled at (565512): [&lt;ffffffffb5804262&gt;] rcu_torture_init+0x20b2/0x2370
softirqs last  enabled at (399112): [&lt;ffffffffb36b2586&gt;] __local_bh_enable_ip+0x126/0x170
softirqs last disabled at (399106): [&lt;ffffffffb43fef59&gt;] inet_register_protosw+0x9/0x1d0
Preemption disabled at:
[&lt;ffffffffb58040c3&gt;] rcu_torture_init+0x1f13/0x2370
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W          6.5.0-rc4-rt2-yocto-preempt-rt+ #15
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.2-0-gea1b7a073390-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0xb0
 dump_stack+0x14/0x20
 __might_resched+0x1aa/0x280
 ? __pfx_rcu_torture_err_cb+0x10/0x10
 rt_spin_lock+0x53/0x130
 ? find_vmap_area+0x1f/0x70
 find_vmap_area+0x1f/0x70
 vmalloc_dump_obj+0x20/0x60
 mem_dump_obj+0x22/0x90
 __call_rcu_common+0x5bf/0x940
 ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x1b/0x30
 call_rcu_hurry+0x14/0x20
 rcu_torture_init+0x1f82/0x2370
 ? __pfx_rcu_torture_leak_cb+0x10/0x10
 ? __pfx_rcu_torture_leak_cb+0x10/0x10
 ? __pfx_rcu_torture_init+0x10/0x10
 do_one_initcall+0x6c/0x300
 ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x1b/0x30
 kernel_init_freeable+0x2b9/0x540
 ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10
 kernel_init+0x1f/0x150
 ret_from_fork+0x40/0x50
 ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
 &lt;/TASK&gt;

The previous patch fixes this by using the deadlock-safe best-effort
version of find_vm_area.  However, in case of failure print the fact that
the pointer was a vmalloc pointer so that we print at least something.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230904180806.1002832-2-joel@joelfernandes.org
Fixes: 98f180837a89 ("mm: Make mem_dump_obj() handle vmalloc() memory")
Signed-off-by: Zqiang &lt;qiang.zhang1211@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Reported-by: Zhen Lei &lt;thunder.leizhen@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: vmalloc: introduce array allocation functions</title>
<updated>2022-07-12T14:35:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-08T09:47:22+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a8749a35c39903120ec421ef2525acc8e0daa55c ]

Linux has dozens of occurrences of vmalloc(array_size()) and
vzalloc(array_size()).  Allow to simplify the code by providing
vmalloc_array and vcalloc, as well as the underscored variants that let
the caller specify the GFP flags.

Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>random: move randomize_page() into mm where it belongs</title>
<updated>2022-05-30T07:29:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-14T11:59:30+00:00</published>
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commit 5ad7dd882e45d7fe432c32e896e2aaa0b21746ea upstream.

randomize_page is an mm function. It is documented like one. It contains
the history of one. It has the naming convention of one. It looks
just like another very similar function in mm, randomize_stack_top().
And it has always been maintained and updated by mm people. There is no
need for it to be in random.c. In the "which shape does not look like
the other ones" test, pointing to randomize_page() is correct.

So move randomize_page() into mm/util.c, right next to the similar
randomize_stack_top() function.

This commit contains no actual code changes.

Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: Consider __GFP_NOWARN flag for oversized kvmalloc() calls</title>
<updated>2022-03-08T18:12:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-04T14:26:32+00:00</published>
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commit 0708a0afe291bdfe1386d74d5ec1f0c27e8b9168 upstream.

syzkaller was recently triggering an oversized kvmalloc() warning via
xdp_umem_create().

The triggered warning was added back in 7661809d493b ("mm: don't allow
oversized kvmalloc() calls"). The rationale for the warning for huge
kvmalloc sizes was as a reaction to a security bug where the size was
more than UINT_MAX but not everything was prepared to handle unsigned
long sizes.

Anyway, the AF_XDP related call trace from this syzkaller report was:

  kvmalloc include/linux/mm.h:806 [inline]
  kvmalloc_array include/linux/mm.h:824 [inline]
  kvcalloc include/linux/mm.h:829 [inline]
  xdp_umem_pin_pages net/xdp/xdp_umem.c:102 [inline]
  xdp_umem_reg net/xdp/xdp_umem.c:219 [inline]
  xdp_umem_create+0x6a5/0xf00 net/xdp/xdp_umem.c:252
  xsk_setsockopt+0x604/0x790 net/xdp/xsk.c:1068
  __sys_setsockopt+0x1fd/0x4e0 net/socket.c:2176
  __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2187 [inline]
  __se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2184 [inline]
  __x64_sys_setsockopt+0xb5/0x150 net/socket.c:2184
  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
  do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Björn mentioned that requests for &gt;2GB allocation can still be valid:

  The structure that is being allocated is the page-pinning accounting.
  AF_XDP has an internal limit of U32_MAX pages, which is *a lot*, but
  still fewer than what memcg allows (PAGE_COUNTER_MAX is a LONG_MAX/
  PAGE_SIZE on 64 bit systems). [...]

  I could just change from U32_MAX to INT_MAX, but as I stated earlier
  that has a hacky feeling to it. [...] From my perspective, the code
  isn't broken, with the memcg limits in consideration. [...]

Linus says:

  [...] Pretty much every time this has come up, the kernel warning has
  shown that yes, the code was broken and there really wasn't a reason
  for doing allocations that big.

  Of course, some people would be perfectly fine with the allocation
  failing, they just don't want the warning. I didn't want __GFP_NOWARN
  to shut it up originally because I wanted people to see all those
  cases, but these days I think we can just say "yeah, people can shut
  it up explicitly by saying 'go ahead and fail this allocation, don't
  warn about it'".

  So enough time has passed that by now I'd certainly be ok with [it].

Thus allow call-sites to silence such userspace triggered splats if the
allocation requests have __GFP_NOWARN. For xdp_umem_pin_pages()'s call
to kvcalloc() this is already the case, so nothing else needed there.

Fixes: 7661809d493b ("mm: don't allow oversized kvmalloc() calls")
Reported-by: syzbot+11421fbbff99b989670e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Tested-by: syzbot+11421fbbff99b989670e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Magnus Karlsson &lt;magnus.karlsson@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAJ+HfNhyfsT5cS_U9EC213ducHs9k9zNxX9+abqC0kTrPbQ0gg@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211201202905.b9892171e3f5b9a60f9da251@linux-foundation.org
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Ackd-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: fix uninitialized use in overcommit_policy_handler</title>
<updated>2021-09-24T23:13:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chen Jun</name>
<email>chenjun102@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-24T22:44:06+00:00</published>
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We get an unexpected value of /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory after
running the following program:

  int main()
  {
      int fd = open("/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory", O_RDWR);
      write(fd, "1", 1);
      write(fd, "2", 1);
      close(fd);
  }

write(fd, "2", 1) will pass *ppos = 1 to proc_dointvec_minmax.
proc_dointvec_minmax will return 0 without setting new_policy.

  t.data = &amp;new_policy;
  ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(&amp;t, write, buffer, lenp, ppos)
      --&gt;do_proc_dointvec
         --&gt;__do_proc_dointvec
              if (write) {
                if (proc_first_pos_non_zero_ignore(ppos, table))
                  goto out;

  sysctl_overcommit_memory = new_policy;

so sysctl_overcommit_memory will be set to an uninitialized value.

Check whether new_policy has been changed by proc_dointvec_minmax.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210923020524.13289-1-chenjun102@huawei.com
Fixes: 56f3547bfa4d ("mm: adjust vm_committed_as_batch according to vm overcommit policy")
Signed-off-by: Chen Jun &lt;chenjun102@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Rui Xiang &lt;rui.xiang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: don't allow oversized kvmalloc() calls</title>
<updated>2021-09-02T16:47:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-14T16:45:49+00:00</published>
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<id>urn:sha1:7661809d493b426e979f39ab512e3adf41fbcc69</id>
<content type='text'>
'kvmalloc()' is a convenience function for people who want to do a
kmalloc() but fall back on vmalloc() if there aren't enough physically
contiguous pages, or if the allocation is larger than what kmalloc()
supports.

However, let's make sure it doesn't get _too_ easy to do crazy things
with it.  In particular, don't allow big allocations that could be due
to integer overflow or underflow.  So make sure the allocation size fits
in an 'int', to protect against trivial integer conversion issues.

Acked-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: Add kvrealloc()</title>
<updated>2021-08-09T22:57:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Chinner</name>
<email>dchinner@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-09T17:10:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.radix-linux.su/kernel/linux.git/commit/?id=de2860f4636256836450c6543be744a50118fc66'/>
<id>urn:sha1:de2860f4636256836450c6543be744a50118fc66</id>
<content type='text'>
During log recovery of an XFS filesystem with 64kB directory
buffers, rebuilding a buffer split across two log records results
in a memory allocation warning from krealloc like this:

xfs filesystem being mounted at /mnt/scratch supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fffffff)
XFS (dm-0): Unmounting Filesystem
XFS (dm-0): Mounting V5 Filesystem
XFS (dm-0): Starting recovery (logdev: internal)
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 3435170 at mm/page_alloc.c:3539 get_page_from_freelist+0xdee/0xe40
.....
RIP: 0010:get_page_from_freelist+0xdee/0xe40
Call Trace:
 ? complete+0x3f/0x50
 __alloc_pages+0x16f/0x300
 alloc_pages+0x87/0x110
 kmalloc_order+0x2c/0x90
 kmalloc_order_trace+0x1d/0x90
 __kmalloc_track_caller+0x215/0x270
 ? xlog_recover_add_to_cont_trans+0x63/0x1f0
 krealloc+0x54/0xb0
 xlog_recover_add_to_cont_trans+0x63/0x1f0
 xlog_recovery_process_trans+0xc1/0xd0
 xlog_recover_process_ophdr+0x86/0x130
 xlog_recover_process_data+0x9f/0x160
 xlog_recover_process+0xa2/0x120
 xlog_do_recovery_pass+0x40b/0x7d0
 ? __irq_work_queue_local+0x4f/0x60
 ? irq_work_queue+0x3a/0x50
 xlog_do_log_recovery+0x70/0x150
 xlog_do_recover+0x38/0x1d0
 xlog_recover+0xd8/0x170
 xfs_log_mount+0x181/0x300
 xfs_mountfs+0x4a1/0x9b0
 xfs_fs_fill_super+0x3c0/0x7b0
 get_tree_bdev+0x171/0x270
 ? suffix_kstrtoint.constprop.0+0xf0/0xf0
 xfs_fs_get_tree+0x15/0x20
 vfs_get_tree+0x24/0xc0
 path_mount+0x2f5/0xaf0
 __x64_sys_mount+0x108/0x140
 do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x70
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Essentially, we are taking a multi-order allocation from kmem_alloc()
(which has an open coded no fail, no warn loop) and then
reallocating it out to 64kB using krealloc(__GFP_NOFAIL) and that is
then triggering the above warning.

This is a regression caused by converting this code from an open
coded no fail/no warn reallocation loop to using __GFP_NOFAIL.

What we actually need here is kvrealloc(), so that if contiguous
page allocation fails we fall back to vmalloc() and we don't
get nasty warnings happening in XFS.

Fixes: 771915c4f688 ("xfs: remove kmem_realloc()")
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
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