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Thomas Gleixner 478fe3037b slub/memcg: cure the brainless abuse of sysfs attributes 
memcg_propagate_slab_attrs() abuses the sysfs attribute file functions
to propagate settings from the root kmem_cache to a newly created
kmem_cache.  It does that with:

     attr->show(root, buf);
     attr->store(new, buf, strlen(bug);

Aside of being a lazy and absurd hackery this is broken because it does
not check the return value of the show() function.

Some of the show() functions return 0 w/o touching the buffer.  That
means in such a case the store function is called with the stale content
of the previous show().  That causes nonsense like invoking
kmem_cache_shrink() on a newly created kmem_cache.  In the worst case it
would cause handing in an uninitialized buffer.

This should be rewritten proper by adding a propagate() callback to
those slub_attributes which must be propagated and avoid that insane
conversion to and from ASCII, but that's too large for a hot fix.

Check at least the return value of the show() function, so calling
store() with stale content is prevented.

Steven said:
 "It can cause a deadlock with get_online_cpus() that has been uncovered
  by recent cpu hotplug and lockdep changes that Thomas and Peter have
  been doing.

     Possible unsafe locking scenario:

           CPU0                    CPU1
           ----                    ----
      lock(cpu_hotplug.lock);
                                   lock(slab_mutex);
                                   lock(cpu_hotplug.lock);
      lock(slab_mutex);

     *** DEADLOCK ***"

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1705201244540.2255@nanos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-06-02 15:07:37 -07:00
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kasan Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-10 10:30:46 -07:00
backing-dev.c bdi: Drop 'parent' argument from bdi_register[_va]() 2017-04-20 12:09:55 -06:00
balloon_compaction.c
bootmem.c mm/bootmem.c: cosmetic improvement of code readability 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
cleancache.c
cma.c cma: Introduce cma_for_each_area 2017-04-18 20:41:12 +02:00
cma.h cma: Store a name in the cma structure 2017-04-18 20:41:12 +02:00
cma_debug.c cma: Store a name in the cma structure 2017-04-18 20:41:12 +02:00
compaction.c mm, compaction: finish whole pageblock to reduce fragmentation 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
debug.c mm, debug: print raw struct page data in __dump_page() 2016-12-12 18:55:08 -08:00
debug_page_ref.c
dmapool.c lib/vsprintf.c: remove %Z support 2017-02-27 18:43:47 -08:00
early_ioremap.c
fadvise.c mm: fadvise: avoid expensive remote LRU cache draining after FADV_DONTNEED 2016-12-20 09:48:46 -08:00
failslab.c
filemap.c Merge branch 'work.iov_iter' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-05-09 09:01:21 -07:00
frame_vector.c treewide: use kv[mz]alloc* rather than opencoded variants 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
frontswap.c
gup.c mm/gup.c: fix access_ok() argument type 2017-05-03 15:52:12 -07:00
highmem.c
huge_memory.c mm/huge_memory.c: deposit a pgtable for DAX PMD faults when required 2017-05-08 17:15:15 -07:00
hugetlb.c mm/hugetlb.c: don't call region_abort if region_chg fails 2017-03-31 17:13:30 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c
hwpoison-inject.c mm: hwpoison: call shake_page() unconditionally 2017-05-03 15:52:12 -07:00
init-mm.c mm: Add a user_ns owner to mm_struct and fix ptrace permission checks 2016-11-22 11:49:48 -06:00
internal.h mm, compaction: finish whole pageblock to reduce fragmentation 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
interval_tree.c
Kconfig mm: remove AVR32 arch special handling in mm/Kconfig 2017-05-01 09:36:31 +02:00
Kconfig.debug mm: enable page poisoning early at boot 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
khugepaged.c mm, thp: copying user pages must schedule on collapse 2017-05-12 15:57:16 -07:00
kmemcheck.c mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU 2017-04-18 11:42:36 -07:00
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c mm: fix section name for .data..ro_after_init 2017-03-31 17:13:30 -07:00
ksm.c ksm: prevent crash after write_protect_page fails 2017-06-02 15:07:37 -07:00
list_lru.c mm/list_lru.c: avoid error-path NULL pointer deref 2016-10-27 18:43:42 -07:00
maccess.c
madvise.c mm/madvise: move up the behavior parameter validation 2017-05-03 15:52:11 -07:00
Makefile mm: add arch-independent testcases for RODATA 2017-02-27 18:43:48 -08:00
memblock.c memblock: add memblock_cap_memory_range() 2017-04-05 18:26:50 +01:00
memcontrol.c hwpoison, memcg: forcibly uncharge LRU pages 2017-05-12 15:57:15 -07:00
memory-failure.c hwpoison, memcg: forcibly uncharge LRU pages 2017-05-12 15:57:15 -07:00
memory.c Merge branch 'parisc-4.11-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux into uaccess.parisc 2017-04-02 10:33:48 -04:00
memory_hotplug.c mm, vmscan: prevent kswapd sleeping prematurely due to mismatched classzone_idx 2017-05-03 15:52:09 -07:00
mempolicy.c mm/mempolicy.c: fix error handling in set_mempolicy and mbind. 2017-04-08 10:57:55 -07:00
mempool.c
memtest.c
migrate.c mm: make rmap_one boolean function 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
mincore.c mm: remove shmem_mapping() shmem_zero_setup() duplicates 2017-02-24 17:46:56 -08:00
mlock.c mm: make try_to_munlock() return void 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c mm/mmap: replace SHM_HUGE_MASK with MAP_HUGE_MASK inside mmap_pgoff 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
mmu_context.c sched/headers: Prepare to move the task_lock()/unlock() APIs to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:38 +01:00
mmu_notifier.c mm: Use static initialization for "srcu" 2017-04-18 11:38:22 -07:00
mmzone.c mm/mmzone.c: swap likely to unlikely as code logic is different for next_zones_zonelist() 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
mprotect.c mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
mremap.c mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
msync.c
nobootmem.c mm: kmemleak: avoid using __va() on addresses that don't have a lowmem mapping 2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
nommu.c mm, vmalloc: use __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
oom_kill.c oom: improve oom disable handling 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
page-writeback.c Add GETFSMAP support; some performance improvements for very large 2017-05-08 11:30:05 -07:00
page_alloc.c mm: introduce memalloc_noreclaim_{save,restore} 2017-05-08 17:15:15 -07:00
page_counter.c
page_ext.c mm: enable page poisoning early at boot 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
page_idle.c mm: make rmap_one boolean function 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
page_io.c writeback: add wbc_to_write_flags() 2016-11-02 10:24:03 -06:00
page_isolation.c mm, page_alloc: count movable pages when stealing from pageblock 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
page_owner.c mm/page_owner: don't define fields on struct page_ext by hard-coding 2016-10-07 18:46:27 -07:00
page_poison.c mm: enable page poisoning early at boot 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
page_vma_mapped.c mm: fix page_vma_mapped_walk() for ksm pages 2017-04-08 00:47:48 -07:00
pagewalk.c mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c percpu: remove unused chunk_alloc parameter from pcpu_get_pages() 2017-03-06 15:56:55 -05:00
percpu.c Merge branch 'sched/core' into locking/core 2017-04-04 11:31:12 +02:00
pgtable-generic.c mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
process_vm_access.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/mm.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:28 +01:00
quicklist.c
readahead.c mm: don't cap request size based on read-ahead setting 2016-12-12 18:55:08 -08:00
rmap.c Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-10 10:30:46 -07:00
rodata_test.c mm: remove rodata_test_data export, add pr_fmt 2017-05-03 15:52:09 -07:00
shmem.c Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
slab.c Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-10 10:30:46 -07:00
slab.h mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU 2017-04-18 11:42:36 -07:00
slab_common.c mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU 2017-04-18 11:42:36 -07:00
slob.c mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU 2017-04-18 11:42:36 -07:00
slub.c slub/memcg: cure the brainless abuse of sysfs attributes 2017-06-02 15:07:37 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
sparse.c mm/sparse: refine usemap_size() a little 2017-05-03 15:52:09 -07:00
swap.c mm: move MADV_FREE pages into LRU_INACTIVE_FILE list 2017-05-03 15:52:08 -07:00
swap_cgroup.c mm, swap_cgroup: reschedule when neeed in swap_cgroup_swapoff() 2017-04-08 00:47:49 -07:00
swap_slots.c mm, swap: use kvzalloc to allocate some swap data structures 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
swap_state.c mm, swap: use kvzalloc to allocate some swap data structures 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
swapfile.c mm, swap: use kvzalloc to allocate some swap data structures 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
truncate.c mm: fix data corruption due to stale mmap reads 2017-05-12 15:57:15 -07:00
usercopy.c mm/usercopy: Drop extra is_vmalloc_or_module() check 2017-04-05 12:30:18 -07:00
userfaultfd.c mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
util.c mm: clarify why we want kmalloc before falling backto vmallock 2017-06-02 15:07:37 -07:00
vmacache.c sched/headers: Prepare to move 'init_task' and 'init_thread_union' from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:38 +01:00
vmalloc.c mm, vmalloc: fix vmalloc users tracking properly 2017-05-12 15:57:15 -07:00
vmpressure.c mm: vmpressure: fix sending wrong events on underflow 2017-02-24 17:46:56 -08:00
vmscan.c mm: vmscan: scan until it finds eligible pages 2017-05-12 15:57:16 -07:00
vmstat.c mm, vmstat: Remove spurious WARN() during zoneinfo print 2017-05-12 15:57:15 -07:00
workingset.c mm: memcontrol: use node page state naming scheme for memcg 2017-05-03 15:52:11 -07:00
z3fold.c z3fold: fix page locking in z3fold_alloc() 2017-04-13 18:24:20 -07:00
zbud.c
zpool.c
zsmalloc.c zsmalloc: expand class bit 2017-04-13 18:24:21 -07:00
zswap.c zswap: don't param_set_charp while holding spinlock 2017-02-27 18:43:45 -08:00