linux-kernel - Re: [Qestion] Hit a WARN_ON_ONCE in try_to_unmap

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Date:   Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:54:09 +0800
From:   zhong jiang <zhongjiang@...wei.com>
To:     Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
CC:     Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [Qestion] Hit a WARN_ON_ONCE in try_to_unmap_one when runing
 syzkaller

On 2019/3/14 14:27, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 12:03:20AM +0800, zhong jiang wrote:
> ...
>> Minchan has changed the conditon check from  BUG_ON  to WARN_ON_ONCE in try_to_unmap_one.
>> However,  It is still an abnormal condition when PageSwapBacked is not equal to PageSwapCache.
>>
>> But Is there any case it will meet the conditon in the mainline.
>>
>> It is assumed that PageSwapBacked(page) is true in the anonymous page,   This is to say,  PageSwapcache
>> is false. however,  That is impossible because we will update the pte for hwpoison entry.
>>
>> Because page is locked ,  Its page flags should not be changed except for PageSwapBacked
> try_to_unmap_one() from hwpoison_user_mappings() could reach the
> WARN_ON_ONCE() only if TTU_IGNORE_HWPOISON is set, because PageHWPoison()
> is set at the beginning of memory_failure().
>
> Clearing TTU_IGNORE_HWPOISON might happen on the following two paths:
>
>   static bool hwpoison_user_mappings(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn,
>                                     int flags, struct page **hpagep)
>   {
>       ...
>   
>       if (PageSwapCache(p)) {
>               pr_err("Memory failure: %#lx: keeping poisoned page in swap cache\n",
>                       pfn);
>               ttu |= TTU_IGNORE_HWPOISON;
>       }
>       ...
>
>       mapping = page_mapping(hpage);                                                                           
>       if (!(flags & MF_MUST_KILL) && !PageDirty(hpage) && mapping &&                                           
>           mapping_cap_writeback_dirty(mapping)) {                                                              
>               if (page_mkclean(hpage)) {                                                                       
>                       SetPageDirty(hpage);                                                                     
>               } else {                                                                                         
>                       kill = 0;                                                                                
>                       ttu |= TTU_IGNORE_HWPOISON;                                                              
>                       pr_info("Memory failure: %#lx: corrupted page was clean: dropped without side effects\n",
>                               pfn);                                                                            
>               }                                                                                                
>       }                                                                                                        
>       ...
>
>       unmap_success = try_to_unmap(hpage, ttu);
>       ...
>
> So either of the above "ttu |= TTU_IGNORE_HWPOISON" should be executed.
> I'm not sure which one, but both paths show printk messages, so if you
> could have kernel message log, that might help ...
Thank you for your response.

Unfortunately, I lost the printk log. I was looking for it before and support us for further analysis.

It's very weird to get there. Assume that TTU_IGNORE_HWPOSISON is set. There is the two case.

First, PageSwapCache is set and page has been locked. Theoretically WARN_ON_ONCE should not be triggered.
Second, We should assume the page belongs to file page.:-(

I will go on reproducing the issue and get the printk message log.

Thanks
zhong jiang
> Thanks,
> Naoya Horiguchi
>
> .
>