linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/18] mm: memcontrol: fix theoretical race in charge moving

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Date:   Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:36:16 +0900
From:   Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>
To:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:     Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/18] mm: memcontrol: fix theoretical race in charge
 moving

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 06:11:10PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> The move_lock is a per-memcg lock, but the VM accounting code that
> needs to acquire it comes from the page and follows page->mem_cgroup
> under RCU protection. That means that the page becomes unlocked not
> when we drop the move_lock, but when we update page->mem_cgroup. And
> that assignment doesn't imply any memory ordering. If that pointer
> write gets reordered against the reads of the page state -
> page_mapped, PageDirty etc. the state may change while we rely on it
> being stable and we can end up corrupting the counters.
> 
> Place an SMP memory barrier to make sure we're done with all page
> state by the time the new page->mem_cgroup becomes visible.
> 
> Also replace the open-coded move_lock with a lock_page_memcg() to make
> it more obvious what we're serializing against.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>

Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>

Thanks.