mm: fix null-ptr-deref in kswapd_is_running()
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.
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Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Cc: Muchun Song <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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