linux-kernel - Re: mm, something wring in page_lock_anon_vma

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Date:   Mon, 22 May 2017 19:51:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:     Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>
cc:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>, aarcange@...hat.com,
        sumeet.keswani@....com, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        zhong jiang <zhongjiang@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: mm, something wring in page_lock_anon_vma_read()?

On Tue, 23 May 2017, Xishi Qiu wrote:
> On 2017/5/23 3:26, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > I mean, there are various places in mm/memory.c which decide what they
> > intend to do based on orig_pte, then take pte lock, then check that
> > pte_same(pte, orig_pte) before taking it any further.  If a pte_same()
> > check were missing (I do not know of any such case), then two racing
> > tasks might install the same pte, one on top of the other - page
> > mapcount being incremented twice, but decremented only once when
> > that pte is finally unmapped later.
> > 
> 
> Hi Hugh,
> 
> Do you mean that the ptes from two racing point to the same page?
> or the two racing point to two pages, but one covers the other later?
> and the first page maybe alone in the lru list, and it will never be freed
> when the process exit.
> 
> We got this info before crash.
> [26068.316592] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff8800a7de2d80 idx:1 val:1

I might mean either: you are taking my suggestion too seriously,
it is merely a suggestion of one way in which this could happen.

Another way is ordinary memory corruption (whether by software error
or by flipped DRAM bits) of a page table: that could end up here too.

Hugh