linux-kernel - Re: mm: shmem: freeing mlocked page

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Date:	Tue, 09 Dec 2014 21:23:08 -0500
From:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	dbueso@...e.de, kirill@...temov.name
Subject: Re: mm: shmem: freeing mlocked page

(Apologies for spam, I've Cc'ed a few outdated emails in the previous mail)

On 12/09/2014 09:15 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On 11/18/2014 04:58 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> [ 1026.994816] Modules linked in:
>>>> [ 1026.995378] CPU: 7 PID: 7879 Comm: trinity-c374 Not tainted 3.18.0-rc4-next-20141113-sasha-00047-gd1763ce-dirty #1455
>>>> [ 1026.996123] FAULT_INJECTION: forcing a failure.
>>>> [ 1026.996123] name failslab, interval 100, probability 30, space 0, times -1
>>>> [ 1026.999050]  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000b3d300 ffff88061295bbd8
>>>> [ 1027.000676]  ffffffff92f71097 0000000000000000 ffffea0000b3d300 ffff88061295bc08
>>>> [ 1027.002020]  ffffffff8197ef7a ffffea0000b3d300 ffffffff942dd148 dfffe90000000000
>>>> [ 1027.003359] Call Trace:
>>>> [ 1027.003831] dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:52)
>>>> [ 1027.004725] bad_page (mm/page_alloc.c:338)
>>>> [ 1027.005623] free_pages_prepare (mm/page_alloc.c:657 mm/page_alloc.c:763)
>>>> [ 1027.006761] free_hot_cold_page (mm/page_alloc.c:1438)
>>>> [ 1027.007772] ? __page_cache_release (mm/swap.c:66)
>>>> [ 1027.008815] put_page (mm/swap.c:270)
>>>> [ 1027.009665] page_cache_pipe_buf_release (fs/splice.c:93)
>>>> [ 1027.010888] __splice_from_pipe (fs/splice.c:784 fs/splice.c:886)
>>>> [ 1027.011917] ? might_fault (./arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:14 mm/memory.c:3734)
>>>> [ 1027.012856] ? pipe_lock (fs/pipe.c:69)
>>>> [ 1027.013728] ? write_pipe_buf (fs/splice.c:1534)
>>>> [ 1027.014756] vmsplice_to_user (fs/splice.c:1574)
>>>> [ 1027.015725] ? rcu_read_lock_held (kernel/rcu/update.c:169)
>>>> [ 1027.016757] ? __fget_light (include/linux/fdtable.h:80 fs/file.c:684)
>>>> [ 1027.017782] SyS_vmsplice (fs/splice.c:1656 fs/splice.c:1639)
>>>> [ 1027.018863] tracesys_phase2 (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:529)
>>>>
>> So what happened here?  Userspace fed some mlocked memory into splice()
>> and then, while splice() was running, userspace dropped its reference
>> to the memory, leaving splice() with the last reference.  Yet somehow,
>> that page was still marked as being mlocked.  I wouldn't expect the
>> kernel to permit userspace to drop its reference to the memory without
>> first clearing the mlocked state.
>>
>> Is it possible to work out from trinity sources what the exact sequence
>> was?  Which syscalls are being used, for example?
> 
> Phew, this took a long while but I've bisected it (with good confidence) down
> to:
> 
> commit a38246260912ba4a0f8b563704a965a7a97cf3c3
> Author: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
> Date:   Wed Dec 3 18:54:27 2014 +1100
> 
>     mm/memory.c: share the i_mmap_rwsem
> 
>     The unmap_mapping_range family of functions do the unmapping of user pages
>     (ultimately via zap_page_range_single) without touching the actual
>     interval tree, thus share the lock.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>
>     Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
>     Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
>     Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
>     Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
>     Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
>     Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>     Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
>     Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Sasha
> 

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