linux-kernel - Re: Ugly rmap NULL ptr deref oopsie on hibernate (was Linux 2.6.34-rc3)

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Message-ID: <4BB66941.1060809@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:01:37 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
	sgunderson@...foot.com
Subject: Re: Ugly rmap NULL ptr deref oopsie on hibernate (was Linux 2.6.34-rc3)

On 04/02/2010 02:37 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 11:09:14 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I think this is likely due to the new scalable anon_vma linking by Rik.
>>
>> Similar to https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15680
>
> Yup, looks like the same thing, except that bugzilla entry was due to
> swapping rather than hibernation and memory shrinking. But same end
> result, just different reasons for why we were trying to shrink the page
> lists.

Interesting that it is a null pointer dereference, given
that we do not zero out the anon_vma_chain structs before
freeing them.

Page_referenced_anon() takes the anon_vma->lock before
walking the list.  The three places where we modify the
anon_vma_chain->same_anon_vma list, we also hold the
lock.

No doubt something in mm/ is doing something silly, but
I have not found anything yet :(

If I had to guess, I'd say maybe we got one of the
mprotect & vma_adjust cases wrong.  Maybe a page stayed
around in the LRU (and in a process?) after its anon_vma
already got freed?

There has to be a reason why a very heavy AIM7 workload
and some other stress tests did not trigger it, but a few
people are able to trigger it on their systems...
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