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authorVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>2014-01-24 03:53:02 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-01-24 04:36:51 +0400
commit2edefe1155b3ad3dc92065f6e1018d363525296e (patch)
tree893832c3693fab8cb849fdbfc1a264e376154860 /mm/slab_common.c
parent96403da244443d9842dbf290c2a02390b78a158e (diff)
downloadlinux-2edefe1155b3ad3dc92065f6e1018d363525296e.tar.xz
memcg, slab: fix races in per-memcg cache creation/destruction
We obtain a per-memcg cache from a root kmem_cache by dereferencing an entry of the root cache's memcg_params::memcg_caches array. If we find no cache for a memcg there on allocation, we initiate the memcg cache creation (see memcg_kmem_get_cache()). The cache creation proceeds asynchronously in memcg_create_kmem_cache() in order to avoid lock clashes, so there can be several threads trying to create the same kmem_cache concurrently, but only one of them may succeed. However, due to a race in the code, it is not always true. The point is that the memcg_caches array can be relocated when we activate kmem accounting for a memcg (see memcg_update_all_caches(), memcg_update_cache_size()). If memcg_update_cache_size() and memcg_create_kmem_cache() proceed concurrently as described below, we can leak a kmem_cache. Asume two threads schedule creation of the same kmem_cache. One of them successfully creates it. Another one should fail then, but if memcg_create_kmem_cache() interleaves with memcg_update_cache_size() as follows, it won't: memcg_create_kmem_cache() memcg_update_cache_size() (called w/o mutexes held) (called with slab_mutex, set_limit_mutex held) ------------------------- ------------------------- mutex_lock(&memcg_cache_mutex) s->memcg_params=kzalloc(...) new_cachep=cache_from_memcg_idx(cachep,idx) // new_cachep==NULL => proceed to creation s->memcg_params->memcg_caches[i] =cur_params->memcg_caches[i] // kmem_cache_create_memcg takes slab_mutex // so we will hang around until // memcg_update_cache_size finishes, but // nothing will prevent it from succeeding so // memcg_caches[idx] will be overwritten in // memcg_register_cache! new_cachep = kmem_cache_create_memcg(...) mutex_unlock(&memcg_cache_mutex) Let's fix this by moving the check for existence of the memcg cache to kmem_cache_create_memcg() to be called under the slab_mutex and make it return NULL if so. A similar race is possible when destroying a memcg cache (see kmem_cache_destroy()). Since memcg_unregister_cache(), which clears the pointer in the memcg_caches array, is called w/o protection, we can race with memcg_update_cache_size() and omit clearing the pointer. Therefore memcg_unregister_cache() should be moved before we release the slab_mutex. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/slab_common.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/slab_common.c14
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
index db24ec48b946..f34707eeacc7 100644
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -180,6 +180,18 @@ kmem_cache_create_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, const char *name, size_t size,
if (err)
goto out_unlock;
+ if (memcg) {
+ /*
+ * Since per-memcg caches are created asynchronously on first
+ * allocation (see memcg_kmem_get_cache()), several threads can
+ * try to create the same cache, but only one of them may
+ * succeed. Therefore if we get here and see the cache has
+ * already been created, we silently return NULL.
+ */
+ if (cache_from_memcg_idx(parent_cache, memcg_cache_id(memcg)))
+ goto out_unlock;
+ }
+
/*
* Some allocators will constraint the set of valid flags to a subset
* of all flags. We expect them to define CACHE_CREATE_MASK in this
@@ -261,11 +273,11 @@ void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache *s)
list_del(&s->list);
if (!__kmem_cache_shutdown(s)) {
+ memcg_unregister_cache(s);
mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex);
if (s->flags & SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU)
rcu_barrier();
- memcg_unregister_cache(s);
memcg_free_cache_params(s);
kfree(s->name);
kmem_cache_free(kmem_cache, s);