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    writeback: fix dereferencing NULL mapping->host on writeback_page_template · 54abe19e
    Rafael Aquini authored
    When commit 19343b5b ("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 edk2-20230301gitf80f052277c8-1.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:0000000000000000
        CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
        CR2: 0000000000000040 CR3: 00000001150c6003 CR4: 0000000000170ee0
        Call Trace:
         <TASK>
         ? __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 19343b5b.  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 19343b5b 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 68f23b89 ("memcg: fix a crash in
    wb_workfn when a device disappears"), and this commit fixes the remaining
    case, for __entry->ino.
    
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230606233613.1290819-1-aquini@redhat.com
    Fixes: 19343b5b ("mm/page-writeback: introduce tracepoint for wait_on_page_writeback()")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarYafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
    Cc: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    54abe19e
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