mm: memcg/slab: fix racy access to page->mem_cgroup in mem_cgroup_from_obj()
mem_cgroup_from_obj() checks the lowest bit of the page->mem_cgroup pointer to determine if the page has an attached obj_cgroup vector instead of a regular memcg pointer. If it's not set, it simple returns the page->mem_cgroup value as a struct mem_cgroup pointer. The commit 10befea9 ("mm: memcg/slab: use a single set of kmem_caches for all allocations") changed the moment when this bit is set: if previously it was set on the allocation of the slab page, now it can be set well after, when the first accounted object is allocated on this page. It opened a race: if page->mem_cgroup is set concurrently after the first page_has_obj_cgroups(page) check, a pointer to the obj_cgroups array can be returned as a memory cgroup pointer. A simple check for page->mem_cgroup pointer for NULL before the page_has_obj_cgroups() check fixes the race. Indeed, if the pointer is not NULL, it's either a simple mem_cgroup pointer or a pointer to obj_cgroup vector. The pointer can be asynchronously changed from NULL to (obj_cgroup_vec | 0x1UL), but can't be changed from a valid memcg pointer to objcg vector or back. If the object passed to mem_cgroup_from_obj() is a slab object and page->mem_cgroup is NULL, it means that the object is not accounted, so the function must return NULL. I've discovered the race looking at the code, so far I haven't seen it in the wild. Fixes: 10befea9 ("mm: memcg/slab: use a single set of kmem_caches for all allocations") Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200910022435.2773735-1-guro@fb.comSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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