6.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Ye Liu <redacted>
commit 90f095b816e25c6a9e4446d299bac5007fdcb3df upstream.
print_page_owner_memcg() reads page->memcg_data via READ_ONCE() at the
start to guard against tail pages and NULL data. However, it later
re-reads page->memcg_data locklessly in two places:
1: page_memcg_check(page)
2: PageMemcgKmem(page) (via folio_memcg_kmem(), which includes
VM_BUG_ON assertions for tail pages and MEMCG_DATA_OBJEXTS)
If the page is concurrently freed and reallocated as a THP tail page or
slab page between these calls, the VM_BUG_ON assertions can trigger on
CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y builds, crashing the kernel.
Fix both TOCTOU issues by using the memcg_data snapshot throughout.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260714015117.78351-10-ye.liu@linux.dev (local)
Fixes: fcf8935832b8 ("mm/page_owner: print memcg information")
Signed-off-by: Ye Liu <redacted>
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <redacted>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
mm/page_owner.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/page_owner.c
+++ b/mm/page_owner.c
@@ -504,6 +504,7 @@ static inline int print_page_owner_memcg
{
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
unsigned long memcg_data;
+ struct obj_cgroup *objcg;
struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
bool online;
char name[80];@@ -513,11 +514,14 @@ static inline int print_page_owner_memcg
if (!memcg_data || PageTail(page))
goto out_unlock;
- if (memcg_data & MEMCG_DATA_OBJEXTS)
+ if (memcg_data & MEMCG_DATA_OBJEXTS) {
ret += scnprintf(kbuf + ret, count - ret,
"Slab cache page\n");
+ goto out_unlock;
+ }
- memcg = page_memcg_check(page);
+ objcg = (void *)(memcg_data & ~OBJEXTS_FLAGS_MASK);
+ memcg = objcg ? obj_cgroup_memcg(objcg) : NULL;
if (!memcg)
goto out_unlock;
@@ -525,7 +529,7 @@ static inline int print_page_owner_memcg
cgroup_name(memcg->css.cgroup, name, sizeof(name));
ret += scnprintf(kbuf + ret, count - ret,
"Charged %sto %smemcg %s\n",
- PageMemcgKmem(page) ? "(via objcg) " : "",
+ (memcg_data & MEMCG_DATA_KMEM) ? "(via objcg) " : "",
online ? "" : "offline ",
name);
out_unlock: