From 8e04944f0ea8b838399049bdcda920ab36ae3b04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tetsuo Handa Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 19:53:07 +0900 Subject: mm,vmscan: Allow preallocating memory for register_shrinker(). syzbot is catching so many bugs triggered by commit 9ee332d99e4d5a97 ("sget(): handle failures of register_shrinker()"). That commit expected that calling kill_sb() from deactivate_locked_super() without successful fill_super() is safe, but the reality was different; some callers assign attributes which are needed for kill_sb() after sget() succeeds. For example, [1] is a report where sb->s_mode (which seems to be either FMODE_READ | FMODE_EXCL | FMODE_WRITE or FMODE_READ | FMODE_EXCL) is not assigned unless sget() succeeds. But it does not worth complicate sget() so that register_shrinker() failure path can safely call kill_block_super() via kill_sb(). Making alloc_super() fail if memory allocation for register_shrinker() failed is much simpler. Let's avoid calling deactivate_locked_super() from sget_userns() by preallocating memory for the shrinker and making register_shrinker() in sget_userns() never fail. [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=588996a25a2587be2e3a54e8646728fb9cae44e7 Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa Reported-by: syzbot Cc: Al Viro Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- mm/vmscan.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 8b920ce3ae02..9b697323a88c 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ unsigned long lruvec_lru_size(struct lruvec *lruvec, enum lru_list lru, int zone /* * Add a shrinker callback to be called from the vm. */ -int register_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker) +int prealloc_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker) { size_t size = sizeof(*shrinker->nr_deferred); @@ -313,10 +313,29 @@ int register_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker) shrinker->nr_deferred = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); if (!shrinker->nr_deferred) return -ENOMEM; + return 0; +} + +void free_prealloced_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker) +{ + kfree(shrinker->nr_deferred); + shrinker->nr_deferred = NULL; +} +void register_shrinker_prepared(struct shrinker *shrinker) +{ down_write(&shrinker_rwsem); list_add_tail(&shrinker->list, &shrinker_list); up_write(&shrinker_rwsem); +} + +int register_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker) +{ + int err = prealloc_shrinker(shrinker); + + if (err) + return err; + register_shrinker_prepared(shrinker); return 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_shrinker); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b