From nobody Sat Feb 7 17:49:04 2026 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FD8EC7EE37 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2023 23:38:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S240346AbjFFXiK (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jun 2023 19:38:10 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:60012 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S239876AbjFFXiI (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jun 2023 19:38:08 -0400 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.129.124]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0A876E5B for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2023 16:37:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1686094644; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding; bh=j899oAscb6cex41LPnjVmfNp2o1cfXB+0VQl+ebVWlM=; b=TJyamHJRqTCr7j7DdzS+/5q8A6B3vAPgzMkVBswWQMIU3b16Tm2u2UlHFBktKiXxBMD+Oq FY9RoY+bT4WecZGhmleRDmbuXe27+oeEASFXDfh5zHAIGIhBZV4sXNaKV1Uh0RNxqPMBP5 Hwdk7/cUxFmkHLMrjXm6+Z310DHTwq4= Received: from mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (mimecast-mx02.redhat.com [66.187.233.88]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-21-2SyWs4g3OyWkn5jowNs9ig-1; Tue, 06 Jun 2023 19:37:23 -0400 X-MC-Unique: 2SyWs4g3OyWkn5jowNs9ig-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8F9D280120A; Tue, 6 Jun 2023 23:37:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from optiplex-lnx.redhat.com (unknown [10.22.17.159]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6C8A40CFD46; Tue, 6 Jun 2023 23:37:13 +0000 (UTC) From: Rafael Aquini To: Andrew Morton , Yafang Shao Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Aristeu Rozanski , Rafael Aquini Subject: [PATCH] writeback: fix dereferencing NULL mapping->host on writeback_page_template Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2023 19:36:13 -0400 Message-Id: <20230606233613.1290819-1-aquini@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.1 on 10.11.54.1 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" When commit 19343b5bdd16 ("mm/page-writeback: introduce tracepoint for wait_on_page_writeback()") repurposed the writeback_dirty_page trace event as a template to create its new wait_on_page_writeback trace event, it ended up opening a window to NULL pointer dereference crashes due to the (infrequent) occurrence of a race where an access to a page in the swap-cache happens concurrently with the moment this page is being written to disk and the tracepoint is enabled: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000040 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 800000010ec0a067 P4D 800000010ec0a067 PUD 102353067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI CPU: 1 PID: 1320 Comm: shmem-worker Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.4.0-rc5= + #13 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS edk2-20230301g= itf80f052277c8-1.fc37 03/01/2023 RIP: 0010:trace_event_raw_event_writeback_folio_template+0x76/0xf0 Code: 4d 85 e4 74 5c 49 8b 3c 24 e8 06 98 ee ff 48 89 c7 e8 9e 8b ee ff= ba 20 00 00 00 48 89 ef 48 89 c6 e8 fe d4 1a 00 49 8b 04 24 <48> 8b 40 40 = 48 89 43 28 49 8b 45 20 48 89 e7 48 89 43 30 e8 a2 4d RSP: 0000:ffffaad580b6fb60 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff90e38035c01c RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff90e38035c044 RBP: ffff90e38035c024 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000006 R10: ffff90e38035c02e R11: 0000000000000020 R12: ffff90e380bac000 R13: ffffe3a7456d9200 R14: 0000000000001b81 R15: ffffe3a7456d9200 FS: 00007f2e4e8a15c0(0000) GS:ffff90e3fbc80000(0000) knlGS:00000000000= 00000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000040 CR3: 00000001150c6003 CR4: 0000000000170ee0 Call Trace: ? __die+0x20/0x70 ? page_fault_oops+0x76/0x170 ? kernelmode_fixup_or_oops+0x84/0x110 ? exc_page_fault+0x65/0x150 ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 ? trace_event_raw_event_writeback_folio_template+0x76/0xf0 folio_wait_writeback+0x6b/0x80 shmem_swapin_folio+0x24a/0x500 ? filemap_get_entry+0xe3/0x140 shmem_get_folio_gfp+0x36e/0x7c0 ? find_busiest_group+0x43/0x1a0 shmem_fault+0x76/0x2a0 ? __update_load_avg_cfs_rq+0x281/0x2f0 __do_fault+0x33/0x130 do_read_fault+0x118/0x160 do_pte_missing+0x1ed/0x2a0 __handle_mm_fault+0x566/0x630 handle_mm_fault+0x91/0x210 do_user_addr_fault+0x22c/0x740 exc_page_fault+0x65/0x150 asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 This problem arises from the fact that the repurposed writeback_dirty_page trace event code was written assuming that every pointer to mapping (struct address_space) would come from a file-mapped page-cache object, thus mapping->host would always be populated, and that was a valid case before commit 19343b5bdd16. The swap-cache address space (swapper_spaces), however, doesn't populate its ->host (struct inode) pointer, thus leading to the crashes in the corner-case aforementioned. commit 19343b5bdd16 ended up breaking the assignment of __entry->name and __entry->ino for the wait_on_page_writeback tracepoint -- both dependent on mapping->host carrying a pointer to a valid inode. The assignment of __entry->name was fixed by commit 68f23b89067f ("memcg: fix a crash in wb_workfn when a device disappears"), and this commit fixes the remaining case, for __entry->ino. Fixes: 19343b5bdd16 ("mm/page-writeback: introduce tracepoint for wait_on_p= age_writeback()") Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini Reviewed-by: Yafang Shao --- include/trace/events/writeback.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/trace/events/writeback.h b/include/trace/events/writeb= ack.h index 86b2a82da546..54e353c9f919 100644 --- a/include/trace/events/writeback.h +++ b/include/trace/events/writeback.h @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(writeback_folio_template, strscpy_pad(__entry->name, bdi_dev_name(mapping ? inode_to_bdi(mapping->host) : NULL), 32); - __entry->ino =3D mapping ? mapping->host->i_ino : 0; + __entry->ino =3D (mapping && mapping->host) ? mapping->host->i_ino : 0; __entry->index =3D folio->index; ), =20 --=20 2.39.2