From 666716fd267df0007dfbb6480cd79dd5b05da4cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vlastimil Babka Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 12:01:08 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] mm, slub: stop freeing kmem_cache_node structures on node offline Patch series "mm, slab, slub: remove cpu and memory hotplug locks". Some related work caused me to look at how we use get/put_mems_online() and get/put_online_cpus() during kmem cache creation/descruction/shrinking, and realize that it should be actually safe to remove all of that with rather small effort (as e.g. Michal Hocko suspected in some of the past discussions already). This has the benefit to avoid rather heavy locks that have caused locking order issues already in the past. So this is the result, Patches 2 and 3 remove memory hotplug and cpu hotplug locking, respectively. Patch 1 is due to realization that in fact some races exist despite the locks (even if not removed), but the most sane solution is not to introduce more of them, but rather accept some wasted memory in scenarios that should be rare anyway (full memory hot remove), as we do the same in other contexts already. This patch (of 3): Commit e4f8e513c3d3 ("mm/slub: fix a deadlock in show_slab_objects()") has fixed a problematic locking order by removing the memory hotplug lock get/put_online_mems() from show_slab_objects(). During the discussion, it was argued [1] that this is OK, because existing slabs on the node would prevent a hotremove to proceed. That's true, but per-node kmem_cache_node structures are not necessarily allocated on the same node and may exist even without actual slab pages on the same node. Any path that uses get_node() directly or via for_each_kmem_cache_node() (such as show_slab_objects()) can race with freeing of kmem_cache_node even with the !NULL check, resulting in use-after-free. To that end, commit e4f8e513c3d3 argues in a comment that: * We don't really need mem_hotplug_lock (to hold off * slab_mem_going_offline_callback) here because slab's memory hot * unplug code doesn't destroy the kmem_cache->node[] data. While it's true that slab_mem_going_offline_callback() doesn't free the kmem_cache_node, the later callback slab_mem_offline_callback() actually does, so the race and use-after-free exists. Not just for show_slab_objects() after commit e4f8e513c3d3, but also many other places that are not under slab_mutex. And adding slab_mutex locking or other synchronization to SLUB paths such as get_any_partial() would be bad for performance and error-prone. The easiest solution is therefore to make the abovementioned comment true and stop freeing the kmem_cache_node structures, accepting some wasted memory in the full memory node removal scenario. Analogically we also don't free hotremoved pgdat as mentioned in [1], nor the similar per-node structures in SLAB. Importantly this approach will not block the hotremove, as generally such nodes should be movable in order to succeed hotremove in the first place, and thus the GFP_KERNEL allocated kmem_cache_node will come from elsewhere. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190924151147.GB23050@dhcp22.suse.cz/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210113131634.3671-1-vbabka@suse.cz Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210113131634.3671-2-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Qian Cai Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/slub.c | 28 +++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index a7c453bf7156..1ecd8a7bd25c 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -4273,8 +4273,6 @@ static int slab_mem_going_offline_callback(void *arg) static void slab_mem_offline_callback(void *arg) { - struct kmem_cache_node *n; - struct kmem_cache *s; struct memory_notify *marg = arg; int offline_node; @@ -4288,21 +4286,11 @@ static void slab_mem_offline_callback(void *arg) return; mutex_lock(&slab_mutex); - list_for_each_entry(s, &slab_caches, list) { - n = get_node(s, offline_node); - if (n) { - /* - * if n->nr_slabs > 0, slabs still exist on the node - * that is going down. We were unable to free them, - * and offline_pages() function shouldn't call this - * callback. So, we must fail. - */ - BUG_ON(slabs_node(s, offline_node)); - - s->node[offline_node] = NULL; - kmem_cache_free(kmem_cache_node, n); - } - } + /* + * We no longer free kmem_cache_node structures here, as it would be + * racy with all get_node() users, and infeasible to protect them with + * slab_mutex. + */ mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex); } @@ -4328,6 +4316,12 @@ static int slab_mem_going_online_callback(void *arg) */ mutex_lock(&slab_mutex); list_for_each_entry(s, &slab_caches, list) { + /* + * The structure may already exist if the node was previously + * onlined and offlined. + */ + if (get_node(s, nid)) + continue; /* * XXX: kmem_cache_alloc_node will fallback to other nodes * since memory is not yet available from the node that -- 2.20.1