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From: gaoxu <gaoxu2@honor.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Suren Baghdasaryan" <surenb@google.com>,
	Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>,
	yipengxiang <yipengxiang@honor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in __swap_duplicate
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 03:13:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44655569e3a1419f800952004f07e714@honor.com> (raw)

swp_swap_info() may return null; it is necessary to check the return value
to avoid NULL pointer dereference. The code for other calls to
swp_swap_info() includes checks, and __swap_duplicate() should also
include checks.

The reason why swp_swap_info() returns NULL is unclear; it may be due to
CPU cache issues or DDR bit flips. The probability of this issue is very
small, and the stack info we encountered is as follows:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
0000000000000058
[RB/E]rb_sreason_str_set: sreason_str set null_pointer
Mem abort info:
  ESR = 0x0000000096000005
  EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
  SET = 0, FnV = 0
  EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
  FSC = 0x05: level 1 translation fault
Data abort info:
  ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000005, ISS2 = 0x00000000
  CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
  GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
user pgtable: 4k pages, 39-bit VAs, pgdp=00000008a80e5000
[0000000000000058] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000,
pud=0000000000000000
Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000005 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Skip md ftrace buffer dump for: 0x1609e0
...
pc : swap_duplicate+0x44/0x164
lr : copy_page_range+0x508/0x1e78
sp : ffffffc0f2a699e0
x29: ffffffc0f2a699e0 x28: ffffff8a5b28d388 x27: ffffff8b06603388
x26: ffffffdf7291fe70 x25: 0000000000000006 x24: 0000000000100073
x23: 00000000002d2d2f x22: 0000000000000008 x21: 0000000000000000
x20: 00000000002d2d2f x19: 18000000002d2d2f x18: ffffffdf726faec0
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0010000000000001 x15: 0040000000000001
x14: 0400000000000001 x13: ff7ffffffffffb7f x12: ffeffffffffffbff
x11: ffffff8a5c7e1898 x10: 0000000000000018 x9 : 0000000000000006
x8 : 1800000000000000 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : ffffff8057c01f10
x5 : 000000000000a318 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000
x2 : 0000006daf200000 x1 : 0000000000000001 x0 : 18000000002d2d2f
Call trace:
 swap_duplicate+0x44/0x164
 copy_page_range+0x508/0x1e78
 copy_process+0x1278/0x21cc
 kernel_clone+0x90/0x438
 __arm64_sys_clone+0x5c/0x8c
 invoke_syscall+0x58/0x110
 do_el0_svc+0x8c/0xe0
 el0_svc+0x38/0x9c
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x44/0xec
 el0t_64_sync+0x1a8/0x1ac
Code: 9139c35a 71006f3f 54000568 f8797b55 (f9402ea8)
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception
SMP: stopping secondary CPUs

The patch seems to only provide a workaround, but there are no more
effective software solutions to handle the bit flips problem. This path
will change the issue from a system crash to a process exception, thereby
reducing the impact on the entire machine.

Signed-off-by: gao xu <gaoxu2@honor.com>
---
 mm/swapfile.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 7448a3876..0b253b8ca 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -3521,6 +3521,8 @@ static int __swap_duplicate(swp_entry_t entry, unsigned char usage, int nr)
 	int err, i;
 
 	si = swp_swap_info(entry);
+	if (unlikely(!si))
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 	offset = swp_offset(entry);
 	VM_WARN_ON(nr > SWAPFILE_CLUSTER - offset % SWAPFILE_CLUSTER);
-- 
2.17.1

             reply	other threads:[~2025-02-12  3:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-02-12  3:13 gaoxu [this message]
2025-02-13  0:18 ` Andrew Morton
2025-02-13 13:08   ` 回复: " gaoxu
2025-02-13 23:35     ` Yosry Ahmed
2025-02-14 10:04       ` 回复: " gaoxu
2025-02-13  1:41 ` Nhat Pham
2025-02-13  8:51   ` 回复: " gaoxu
2025-02-13 23:07     ` Barry Song
2025-02-14 10:00       ` 回复: " gaoxu

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