[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "mm/memory_hotplug.c: set zone->wait_table to null after freeing it" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    mm/memory_hotplug.c: set zone->wait_table to null after freeing it

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt3.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 7bff269d0e85c458975ac816a7190afe9c19925a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst at cn.fujitsu.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 11:14:43 -0700
Subject: mm/memory_hotplug.c: set zone->wait_table to null after freeing it

commit 85bd839983778fcd0c1c043327b14a046e979b39 upstream.

Izumi found the following oops when hot re-adding a node:

    BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90008963690
    IP: __wake_up_bit+0x20/0x70
    Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
    CPU: 68 PID: 1237 Comm: rs:main Q:Reg Not tainted 4.1.0-rc5 #80
    Hardware name: FUJITSU PRIMEQUEST2800E/SB, BIOS PRIMEQUEST 2000 Series BIOS Version 1.87 04/28/2015
    task: ffff880838df8000 ti: ffff880017b94000 task.ti: ffff880017b94000
    RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810dff80>]  [<ffffffff810dff80>] __wake_up_bit+0x20/0x70
    RSP: 0018:ffff880017b97be8  EFLAGS: 00010246
    RAX: ffffc90008963690 RBX: 00000000003c0000 RCX: 000000000000a4c9
    RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffea101bffd500 RDI: ffffc90008963648
    RBP: ffff880017b97c08 R08: 0000000002000020 R09: 0000000000000000
    R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8a0797c73800
    R13: ffffea101bffd500 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 00000000003c0000
    FS:  00007fcc7ffff700(0000) GS:ffff880874800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
    CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
    CR2: ffffc90008963690 CR3: 0000000836761000 CR4: 00000000001407e0
    Call Trace:
      unlock_page+0x6d/0x70
      generic_write_end+0x53/0xb0
      xfs_vm_write_end+0x29/0x80 [xfs]
      generic_perform_write+0x10a/0x1e0
      xfs_file_buffered_aio_write+0x14d/0x3e0 [xfs]
      xfs_file_write_iter+0x79/0x120 [xfs]
      __vfs_write+0xd4/0x110
      vfs_write+0xac/0x1c0
      SyS_write+0x58/0xd0
      system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x76
    Code: 5d c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 48 83 ec 20 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 45 f8 31 c0 48 8d 47 48 <48> 39 47 48 48 c7 45 e8 00 00 00 00 48 c7 45 f0 00 00 00 00 48
    RIP  [<ffffffff810dff80>] __wake_up_bit+0x20/0x70
     RSP <ffff880017b97be8>
    CR2: ffffc90008963690

Reproduce method (re-add a node)::
  Hot-add nodeA --> remove nodeA --> hot-add nodeA (panic)

This seems an use-after-free problem, and the root cause is
zone->wait_table was not set to *NULL* after free it in
try_offline_node.

When hot re-add a node, we will reuse the pgdat of it, so does the zone
struct, and when add pages to the target zone, it will init the zone
first (including the wait_table) if the zone is not initialized.  The
judgement of zone initialized is based on zone->wait_table:

	static inline bool zone_is_initialized(struct zone *zone)
	{
		return !!zone->wait_table;
	}

so if we do not set the zone->wait_table to *NULL* after free it, the
memory hotplug routine will skip the init of new zone when hot re-add
the node, and the wait_table still points to the freed memory, then we
will access the invalid address when trying to wake up the waiting
people after the i/o operation with the page is done, such as mentioned
above.

Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst at cn.fujitsu.com>
Reported-by: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku at jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki at jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu at jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen at cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 mm/memory_hotplug.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 65842d6..93caba7 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -1978,8 +1978,10 @@ void try_offline_node(int nid)
 		 * wait_table may be allocated from boot memory,
 		 * here only free if it's allocated by vmalloc.
 		 */
-		if (is_vmalloc_addr(zone->wait_table))
+		if (is_vmalloc_addr(zone->wait_table)) {
 			vfree(zone->wait_table);
+			zone->wait_table = NULL;
+		}
 	}
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(try_offline_node);
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