[PATCH] hugetlb: fix hugetlb cgroup refcounting during vma split

From: Mike Kravetz
Date: Mon Aug 30 2021 - 17:50:50 EST


Guillaume Morin reported hitting the following WARNING followed
by GPF or NULL pointer deference either in cgroups_destroy or in
the kill_css path.:

percpu ref (css_release) <= 0 (-1) after switching to atomic
WARNING: CPU: 23 PID: 130 at lib/percpu-refcount.c:196 percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic_rcu+0x127/0x130
CPU: 23 PID: 130 Comm: ksoftirqd/23 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G O 5.10.60 #1
RIP: 0010:percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic_rcu+0x127/0x130
Call Trace:
rcu_core+0x30f/0x530
rcu_core_si+0xe/0x10
__do_softirq+0x103/0x2a2
? sort_range+0x30/0x30
run_ksoftirqd+0x2b/0x40
smpboot_thread_fn+0x11a/0x170
kthread+0x10a/0x140
? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x70/0x70
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

Upon further examination, it was discovered that the css structure
was associated with hugetlb reservations.

For private hugetlb mappings the vma points to a reserve map that
contains a pointer to the css. At mmap time, reservations are set up
and a reference to the css is taken. This reference is dropped in the
vma close operation; hugetlb_vm_op_close. However, if a vma is split
no additional reference to the css is taken yet hugetlb_vm_op_close will
be called twice for the split vma resulting in an underflow.

Fix by taking another reference in hugetlb_vm_op_open. Note that the
reference is only taken for the owner of the reserve map. In the more
common fork case, the pointer to the reserve map is cleared for
non-owning vmas.

Fixes: e9fe92ae0cd2 ("hugetlb_cgroup: add reservation accounting for
private mappings")
Reported-by: Guillaume Morin <guillaume@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Guillaume Morin <guillaume@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/hugetlb_cgroup.h | 12 ++++++++++++
mm/hugetlb.c | 4 +++-
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb_cgroup.h b/include/linux/hugetlb_cgroup.h
index 0b8d1fdda3a1..c137396129db 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb_cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb_cgroup.h
@@ -121,6 +121,13 @@ static inline void hugetlb_cgroup_put_rsvd_cgroup(struct hugetlb_cgroup *h_cg)
css_put(&h_cg->css);
}

+static inline void resv_map_dup_hugetlb_cgroup_uncharge_info(
+ struct resv_map *resv_map)
+{
+ if (resv_map->css)
+ css_get(resv_map->css);
+}
+
extern int hugetlb_cgroup_charge_cgroup(int idx, unsigned long nr_pages,
struct hugetlb_cgroup **ptr);
extern int hugetlb_cgroup_charge_cgroup_rsvd(int idx, unsigned long nr_pages,
@@ -199,6 +206,11 @@ static inline void hugetlb_cgroup_put_rsvd_cgroup(struct hugetlb_cgroup *h_cg)
{
}

+static inline void resv_map_dup_hugetlb_cgroup_uncharge_info(
+ struct resv_map *resv_map)
+{
+}
+
static inline int hugetlb_cgroup_charge_cgroup(int idx, unsigned long nr_pages,
struct hugetlb_cgroup **ptr)
{
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 8ea35ba6699f..6c583ef079e3 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -4033,8 +4033,10 @@ static void hugetlb_vm_op_open(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
* after this open call completes. It is therefore safe to take a
* new reference here without additional locking.
*/
- if (resv && is_vma_resv_set(vma, HPAGE_RESV_OWNER))
+ if (resv && is_vma_resv_set(vma, HPAGE_RESV_OWNER)) {
+ resv_map_dup_hugetlb_cgroup_uncharge_info(resv);
kref_get(&resv->refs);
+ }
}

static void hugetlb_vm_op_close(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
--
2.31.1