linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm, soft offline: split thp at the beginning of soft_offline

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Date:	Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:54:58 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
Cc:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@...el.com>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, soft offline: split thp at the beginning of
 soft_offline_page()

On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:05:31 -0500
Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com> wrote:

> When we try to soft-offline a thp tail page, put_page() is called on the
> tail page unthinkingly and VM_BUG_ON is triggered in put_compound_page().
> This patch splits thp before going into the main body of soft-offlining.
> 
> The interface of soft-offlining is open for userspace, so this bug can
> lead to DoS attack and should be fixed immedately.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>  mm/memory-failure.c | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git v3.7-rc7.orig/mm/memory-failure.c v3.7-rc7/mm/memory-failure.c
> index 8fe3640..e48e235 100644
> --- v3.7-rc7.orig/mm/memory-failure.c
> +++ v3.7-rc7/mm/memory-failure.c
> @@ -1548,9 +1548,17 @@ int soft_offline_page(struct page *page, int flags)
>  {
>  	int ret;
>  	unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
> +	struct page *hpage = compound_trans_head(page);
>  
>  	if (PageHuge(page))
>  		return soft_offline_huge_page(page, flags);
> +	if (PageTransHuge(hpage)) {
> +		if (PageAnon(hpage) && unlikely(split_huge_page(hpage))) {
> +			pr_info("soft offline: %#lx: failed to split THP\n",
> +				pfn);
> +			return -EBUSY;
> +		}
> +	}

We can use PageTransCompound() here, as we know it isn't a hugetlbfs
page.  This will then permit the PageAnon() test to be omitted, methinks?
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