tree 4b898132d09c087cdc30f91b941dcaf4e22f9160
parent e1f1b1572e8db87a56609fd05bef76f98f0e456a
author Jing Xia <jing.xia.mail@gmail.com> 1532134428 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1532202646 -0700

mm: memcg: fix use after free in mem_cgroup_iter()

It was reported that a kernel crash happened in mem_cgroup_iter(), which
can be triggered if the legacy cgroup-v1 non-hierarchical mode is used.

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b6b6b6b8f
......
Call trace:
  mem_cgroup_iter+0x2e0/0x6d4
  shrink_zone+0x8c/0x324
  balance_pgdat+0x450/0x640
  kswapd+0x130/0x4b8
  kthread+0xe8/0xfc
  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

  mem_cgroup_iter():
      ......
      if (css_tryget(css))    <-- crash here
	    break;
      ......

The crashing reason is that mem_cgroup_iter() uses the memcg object whose
pointer is stored in iter->position, which has been freed before and
filled with POISON_FREE(0x6b).

And the root cause of the use-after-free issue is that
invalidate_reclaim_iterators() fails to reset the value of iter->position
to NULL when the css of the memcg is released in non- hierarchical mode.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1531994807-25639-1-git-send-email-jing.xia@unisoc.com
Fixes: 6df38689e0e9 ("mm: memcontrol: fix possible memcg leak due to interrupted reclaim")
Signed-off-by: Jing Xia <jing.xia.mail@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: <chunyan.zhang@unisoc.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>