Karsten reported the following panic in __free_slab() happening on a s390x
machine:
Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference in virtual kernel address space
Failing address: 0000000000000000 TEID: 0000000000000483
Fault in home space mode while using kernel ASCE.
AS:00000000017d4007 R3:000000007fbd0007 S:000000007fbff000 P:000000000000003d
Oops: 0004 ilc:3 Ý#1¨ PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in: tcp_diag inet_diag xt_tcpudp ip6t_rpfilter ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 xt_conntrack ip6table_nat ip6table_mangle ip6table_raw ip6table_security iptable_at nf_nat
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.3.0-05872-g6133e3e4bada-dirty #14
Hardware name: IBM 2964 NC9 702 (z/VM 6.4.0)
Krnl PSW : 0704d00180000000 00000000003cadb6 (__free_slab+0x686/0x6b0)
R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3 CC:1 PM:0 RI:0 EA:3
Krnl GPRS: 00000000f3a32928 0000000000000000 000000007fbf5d00 000000000117c4b8
0000000000000000 000000009e3291c1 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0000000000000003 0000000000000008 000000002b478b00 000003d080a97600
0000000000000003 0000000000000008 000000002b478b00 000003d080a97600
000000000117ba00 000003e000057db0 00000000003cabcc 000003e000057c78
Krnl Code: 00000000003cada6: e310a1400004 lg %r1,320(%r10)
00000000003cadac: c0e50046c286 brasl %r14,ca32b8
#00000000003cadb2: a7f4fe36 brc 15,3caa1e
>00000000003cadb6: e32060800024 stg %r2,128(%r6)
00000000003cadbc: a7f4fd9e brc 15,3ca8f8
00000000003cadc0: c0e50046790c brasl %r14,c99fd8
00000000003cadc6: a7f4fe2c brc 15,3caa
00000000003cadc6: a7f4fe2c brc 15,3caa1e
00000000003cadca: ecb1ffff00d9 aghik %r11,%r1,-1
Call Trace:
(<00000000003cabcc> __free_slab+0x49c/0x6b0)
<00000000001f5886> rcu_core+0x5a6/0x7e0
<0000000000ca2dea> __do_softirq+0xf2/0x5c0
<0000000000152644> irq_exit+0x104/0x130
<000000000010d222> do_IRQ+0x9a/0xf0
<0000000000ca2344> ext_int_handler+0x130/0x134
<0000000000103648> enabled_wait+0x58/0x128
(<0000000000103634> enabled_wait+0x44/0x128)
<0000000000103b00> arch_cpu_idle+0x40/0x58
<0000000000ca0544> default_idle_call+0x3c/0x68
<000000000018eaa4> do_idle+0xec/0x1c0
<000000000018ee0e> cpu_startup_entry+0x36/0x40
<000000000122df34> arch_call_rest_init+0x5c/0x88
<0000000000000000> 0x0
INFO: lockdep is turned off.
Last Breaking-Event-Address:
<00000000003ca8f4> __free_slab+0x1c4/0x6b0
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
The kernel panics on an attempt to dereference the NULL memcg pointer.
When shutdown_cache() is called from the kmem_cache_destroy() context, a
memcg kmem_cache might have empty slab pages in a partial list, which are
still charged to the memory cgroup.
These pages are released by free_partial() at the beginning of
shutdown_cache(): either directly or by scheduling a RCU-delayed work
(if the kmem_cache has the SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU flag). The latter case
is when the reported panic can happen: memcg_unlink_cache() is called
immediately after shrinking partial lists, without waiting for scheduled
RCU works. It sets the kmem_cache->memcg_params.memcg pointer to NULL,
and the following attempt to dereference it by __free_slab() from the
RCU work context causes the panic.
To fix the issue, let's postpone the release of the memcg pointer to
destroy_memcg_params(). It's called from a separate work context by
slab_caches_to_rcu_destroy_workfn(), which contains a full RCU barrier.
This guarantees that all scheduled page release RCU works will complete
before the memcg pointer will be zeroed.
Big thanks for Karsten for the perfect report containing all necessary
information, his help with the analysis of the problem and testing of the
fix.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191010160549.1584316-1-guro@fb.com
Fixes: fb2f2b0adb ("mm: memcg/slab: reparent memcg kmem_caches on cgroup removal")
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Reported-by: Karsten Graul <kgraul@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Karsten Graul <kgraul@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Karsten Graul <kgraul@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@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>
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