linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: page_mapped: don't assume compound page is huge or THP

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Date:   Thu, 29 Nov 2018 22:53:48 +0100
From:   Jan Stancek <jstancek@...hat.com>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org, lersek@...hat.com, alex.williamson@...hat.com,
        aarcange@...hat.com, rientjes@...gle.com, kirill@...temov.name,
        mgorman@...hsingularity.net, mhocko@...e.com, jstancek@...hat.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm: page_mapped: don't assume compound page is huge or THP

LTP proc01 testcase has been observed to rarely trigger crashes
on arm64:
    page_mapped+0x78/0xb4
    stable_page_flags+0x27c/0x338
    kpageflags_read+0xfc/0x164
    proc_reg_read+0x7c/0xb8
    __vfs_read+0x58/0x178
    vfs_read+0x90/0x14c
    SyS_read+0x60/0xc0

Issue is that page_mapped() assumes that if compound page is not
huge, then it must be THP. But if this is 'normal' compound page
(COMPOUND_PAGE_DTOR), then following loop can keep running until
it tries to read from memory that isn't mapped and triggers a panic:
        for (i = 0; i < hpage_nr_pages(page); i++) {
                if (atomic_read(&page[i]._mapcount) >= 0)
                        return true;
	}

I could replicate this on x86 (v4.20-rc4-98-g60b548237fed) only
with a custom kernel module [1] which:
- allocates compound page (PAGEC) of order 1
- allocates 2 normal pages (COPY), which are initialized to 0xff
  (to satisfy _mapcount >= 0)
- 2 PAGEC page structs are copied to address of first COPY page
- second page of COPY is marked as not present
- call to page_mapped(COPY) now triggers fault on access to 2nd COPY
  page at offset 0x30 (_mapcount)

[1] https://github.com/jstancek/reproducers/blob/master/kernel/page_mapped_crash/repro.c

This patch modifies page_mapped() to check for 'normal'
compound pages (COMPOUND_PAGE_DTOR).

Debugged-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@...hat.com>
---
 include/linux/mm.h | 9 +++++++++
 mm/util.c          | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 5411de93a363..18b0bb953f92 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -700,6 +700,15 @@ static inline compound_page_dtor *get_compound_page_dtor(struct page *page)
 	return compound_page_dtors[page[1].compound_dtor];
 }
 
+static inline int PageNormalCompound(struct page *page)
+{
+	if (!PageCompound(page))
+		return 0;
+
+	page = compound_head(page);
+	return page[1].compound_dtor == COMPOUND_PAGE_DTOR;
+}
+
 static inline unsigned int compound_order(struct page *page)
 {
 	if (!PageHead(page))
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 8bf08b5b5760..06c1640cb7b3 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -478,6 +478,8 @@ bool page_mapped(struct page *page)
 		return true;
 	if (PageHuge(page))
 		return false;
+	if (PageNormalCompound(page))
+		return false;
 	for (i = 0; i < hpage_nr_pages(page); i++) {
 		if (atomic_read(&page[i]._mapcount) >= 0)
 			return true;
-- 
1.8.3.1