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Commit f19bd643 authored by Mitko Haralanov's avatar Mitko Haralanov Committed by Doug Ledford
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IB/hfi1: Prevent NULL pointer deferences in caching code



There is a potential kernel crash when the MMU notifier calls the
invalidation routines in the hfi1 pinned page caching code for sdma.

The invalidation routine could call the remove callback
for the node, which in turn ends up dereferencing the
current task_struct to get a pointer to the mm_struct.
However, the mm_struct pointer could be NULL resulting in
the following backtrace:

    BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a8
    IP: [<ffffffffa041f75a>] sdma_rb_remove+0xaa/0x100 [hfi1]
    15
    task: ffff88085e66e080 ti: ffff88085c244000 task.ti: ffff88085c244000
    RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa041f75a>]  [<ffffffffa041f75a>] sdma_rb_remove+0xaa/0x100 [hfi1]
    RSP: 0000:ffff88085c245878  EFLAGS: 00010002
    RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88105b9bbd40 RCX: ffffea003931a830
    RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: ffff88105754a9c0 RDI: ffff88105754a9c0
    RBP: ffff88085c245890 R08: ffff88105b9bbd70 R09: 00000000fffffffb
    R10: ffff88105b9bbd58 R11: 0000000000000013 R12: ffff88105754a9c0
    R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff88105b9bbd40
    FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88107ef40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
    CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
    CR2: 00000000000000a8 CR3: 0000000001a0b000 CR4: 00000000001407e0
    Stack:
     ffff88105b9bbd40 ffff88080ec481a8 ffff88080ec481b8 ffff88085c2458c0
     ffffffffa03fa00e ffff88080ec48190 ffff88080ed9cd00 0000000001024000
     0000000000000000 ffff88085c245920 ffffffffa03fa0e7 0000000000000282
    Call Trace:
     [<ffffffffa03fa00e>] __mmu_rb_remove.isra.5+0x5e/0x70 [hfi1]
     [<ffffffffa03fa0e7>] mmu_notifier_mem_invalidate+0xc7/0xf0 [hfi1]
     [<ffffffffa03fa143>] mmu_notifier_page+0x13/0x20 [hfi1]
     [<ffffffff81156dd0>] __mmu_notifier_invalidate_page+0x50/0x70
     [<ffffffff81140bbb>] try_to_unmap_one+0x20b/0x470
     [<ffffffff81141ee7>] try_to_unmap_anon+0xa7/0x120
     [<ffffffff81141fad>] try_to_unmap+0x4d/0x60
     [<ffffffff8111fd7b>] shrink_page_list+0x2eb/0x9d0
     [<ffffffff81120ab3>] shrink_inactive_list+0x243/0x490
     [<ffffffff81121491>] shrink_lruvec+0x4c1/0x640
     [<ffffffff81121641>] shrink_zone+0x31/0x100
     [<ffffffff81121b0f>] kswapd_shrink_zone.constprop.62+0xef/0x1c0
     [<ffffffff811229e3>] kswapd+0x403/0x7e0
     [<ffffffff811225e0>] ? shrink_all_memory+0xf0/0xf0
     [<ffffffff81068ac0>] kthread+0xc0/0xd0
     [<ffffffff81068a00>] ? insert_kthread_work+0x40/0x40
     [<ffffffff814ff8ec>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
     [<ffffffff81068a00>] ? insert_kthread_work+0x40/0x40

To correct this, the mm_struct passed to us by the MMU notifier is
used (which is what should have been done to begin with). This avoids
the broken derefences and ensures that the correct mm_struct is used.

Reviewed-by: default avatarDennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDean Luick <dean.luick@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMitko Haralanov <mitko.haralanov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
parent e7d2c25d
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