Since commit d7365e783e ("mm: memcontrol: fix missed end-writeback
page accounting") mem_cgroup_end_page_stat consumes locked and flags
variables directly rather than via pointers which might trigger C
undefined behavior as those variables are initialized only in the slow
path of mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat.
Although mem_cgroup_end_page_stat handles parameters correctly and
touches them only when they hold a sensible value it is caller which
loads a potentially uninitialized value which then might allow compiler
to do crazy things.
I haven't seen any warning from gcc and it seems that the current
version (4.9) doesn't exploit this type undefined behavior but Sasha has
reported the following:
UBSan: Undefined behaviour in mm/rmap.c:1084:2
load of value 255 is not a valid value for type '_Bool'
CPU: 4 PID: 8304 Comm: rngd Not tainted 3.18.0-rc2-next-20141029-sasha-00039-g77ed13d-dirty #1427
Call Trace:
dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:52)
ubsan_epilogue (lib/ubsan.c:159)
__ubsan_handle_load_invalid_value (lib/ubsan.c:482)
page_remove_rmap (mm/rmap.c:1084 mm/rmap.c:1096)
unmap_page_range (./arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:27 include/linux/mm.h:463 mm/memory.c:1146 mm/memory.c:1258 mm/memory.c:1279 mm/memory.c:1303)
unmap_single_vma (mm/memory.c:1348)
unmap_vmas (mm/memory.c:1377 (discriminator 3))
exit_mmap (mm/mmap.c:2837)
mmput (kernel/fork.c:659)
do_exit (./arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h:168 kernel/exit.c:462 kernel/exit.c:747)
do_group_exit (include/linux/sched.h:775 kernel/exit.c:873)
SyS_exit_group (kernel/exit.c:901)
tracesys_phase2 (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:529)
Fix this by using pointer parameters for both locked and flags and be
more robust for future compiler changes even though the current code is
implemented correctly.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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