From 3010f876500f9ba921afaeccec30c45ca6584dc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Tatashin Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 15:16:05 -0700 Subject: mm: discard memblock data later There is existing use after free bug when deferred struct pages are enabled: The memblock_add() allocates memory for the memory array if more than 128 entries are needed. See comment in e820__memblock_setup(): * The bootstrap memblock region count maximum is 128 entries * (INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS), but EFI might pass us more E820 entries * than that - so allow memblock resizing. This memblock memory is freed here: free_low_memory_core_early() We access the freed memblock.memory later in boot when deferred pages are initialized in this path: deferred_init_memmap() for_each_mem_pfn_range() __next_mem_pfn_range() type = &memblock.memory; One possible explanation for why this use-after-free hasn't been hit before is that the limit of INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS has never been exceeded at least on systems where deferred struct pages were enabled. Tested by reducing INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS down to 4 from the current 128, and verifying in qemu that this code is getting excuted and that the freed pages are sane. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502485554-318703-2-git-send-email-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com Fixes: 7e18adb4f80b ("mm: meminit: initialise remaining struct pages in parallel with kswapd") Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan Reviewed-by: Bob Picco Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/memblock.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/memblock.c') diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c index 2cb25fe4452c..bf14aea6ab70 100644 --- a/mm/memblock.c +++ b/mm/memblock.c @@ -285,31 +285,27 @@ static void __init_memblock memblock_remove_region(struct memblock_type *type, u } #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK - -phys_addr_t __init_memblock get_allocated_memblock_reserved_regions_info( - phys_addr_t *addr) -{ - if (memblock.reserved.regions == memblock_reserved_init_regions) - return 0; - - *addr = __pa(memblock.reserved.regions); - - return PAGE_ALIGN(sizeof(struct memblock_region) * - memblock.reserved.max); -} - -phys_addr_t __init_memblock get_allocated_memblock_memory_regions_info( - phys_addr_t *addr) +/** + * Discard memory and reserved arrays if they were allocated + */ +void __init memblock_discard(void) { - if (memblock.memory.regions == memblock_memory_init_regions) - return 0; + phys_addr_t addr, size; - *addr = __pa(memblock.memory.regions); + if (memblock.reserved.regions != memblock_reserved_init_regions) { + addr = __pa(memblock.reserved.regions); + size = PAGE_ALIGN(sizeof(struct memblock_region) * + memblock.reserved.max); + __memblock_free_late(addr, size); + } - return PAGE_ALIGN(sizeof(struct memblock_region) * - memblock.memory.max); + if (memblock.memory.regions == memblock_memory_init_regions) { + addr = __pa(memblock.memory.regions); + size = PAGE_ALIGN(sizeof(struct memblock_region) * + memblock.memory.max); + __memblock_free_late(addr, size); + } } - #endif /** -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522