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    mm: fix null-ptr-deref in kswapd_is_running() · b4a0215e
    Kefeng Wang authored
    kswapd_run/stop() will set pgdat->kswapd to NULL, which could race with
    kswapd_is_running() in kcompactd(),
    
    kswapd_run/stop()                       kcompactd()
                                              kswapd_is_running()
      pgdat->kswapd // error or nomal ptr
                                              verify pgdat->kswapd
                                                // load non-NULL
    pgdat->kswapd
      pgdat->kswapd = NULL
                                              task_is_running(pgdat->kswapd)
                                                // Null pointer derefence
    
    KASAN reports the null-ptr-deref shown below,
    
      vmscan: Failed to start kswapd on node 0
      ...
      BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in kcompactd+0x440/0x504
      Read of size 8 at addr 0000000000000024 by task kcompactd0/37
    
      CPU: 0 PID: 37 Comm: kcompactd0 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G           OE     5.10.60 #1
      Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
      Call trace:
       dump_backtrace+0x0/0x394
       show_stack+0x34/0x4c
       dump_stack+0x158/0x1e4
       __kasan_report+0x138/0x140
       kasan_report+0x44/0xdc
       __asan_load8+0x94/0xd0
       kcompactd+0x440/0x504
       kthread+0x1a4/0x1f0
       ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
    
    At present kswapd/kcompactd_run() and kswapd/kcompactd_stop() are protected
    by mem_hotplug_begin/done(), but without kcompactd(). There is no need to
    involve memory hotplug lock in kcompactd(), so let's add a new mutex to
    protect pgdat->kswapd accesses.
    
    Also, because the kcompactd task will check the state of kswapd task, it's
    better to call kcompactd_stop() before kswapd_stop() to reduce lock
    conflicts.
    
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comments]
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220827111959.186838-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.comSigned-off-by: default avatarKefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
    Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
    Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    b4a0215e
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