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Message-Id: <20200513113256.44ac9ce4c51a7ec1a5c5ba40@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 13 May 2020 11:32:56 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/compaction: avoid VM_BUG_ON(PageSlab()) in
 page_mapcount()

On Wed, 13 May 2020 17:05:25 +0300 Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru> wrote:

> Function isolate_migratepages_block() runs some checks out of lru_lock
> when choose pages for migration. After checking PageLRU() it checks extra
> page references by comparing page_count() and page_mapcount(). Between
> these two checks page could be removed from lru, freed and taken by slab.
> 
> As a result this race triggers VM_BUG_ON(PageSlab()) in page_mapcount().
> Race window is tiny. For certain workload this happens around once a year.
> 
> 
>  page:ffffea0105ca9380 count:1 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff88ff7712c180 index:0x0 compound_mapcount: 0
>  flags: 0x500000000008100(slab|head)
>  raw: 0500000000008100 dead000000000100 dead000000000200 ffff88ff7712c180
>  raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080200020 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
>  page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageSlab(page))
>  ------------[ cut here ]------------
>  kernel BUG at ./include/linux/mm.h:628!
>  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
>  CPU: 77 PID: 504 Comm: kcompactd1 Tainted: G        W         4.19.109-27 #1
>  Hardware name: Yandex T175-N41-Y3N/MY81-EX0-Y3N, BIOS R05 06/20/2019
>  RIP: 0010:isolate_migratepages_block+0x986/0x9b0
> 
> 
> To fix just opencode page_mapcount() in racy check for 0-order case and
> recheck carefully under lru_lock when page cannot escape from lru.
> 
> Also add checking extra references for file pages and swap cache.

It sounds like a cc:stable is appropriate?

> --- a/mm/compaction.c
> +++ b/mm/compaction.c
> @@ -935,12 +935,16 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long low_pfn,
>  		}
>  
>  		/*
> -		 * Migration will fail if an anonymous page is pinned in memory,
> +		 * Migration will fail if an page is pinned in memory,
>  		 * so avoid taking lru_lock and isolating it unnecessarily in an
> -		 * admittedly racy check.
> +		 * admittedly racy check simplest case for 0-order pages.
> +		 *
> +		 * Open code page_mapcount() to avoid VM_BUG_ON(PageSlab(page)).
> +		 * Page could have extra reference from mapping or swap cache.
>  		 */
> -		if (!page_mapping(page) &&
> -		    page_count(page) > page_mapcount(page))
> +		if (!PageCompound(page) &&
> +		    page_count(page) > atomic_read(&page->_mapcount) + 1 +
> +				(!PageAnon(page) || PageSwapCache(page)))
>  			goto isolate_fail;
>  
>  		/*
> @@ -975,6 +979,11 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long low_pfn,
>  				low_pfn += compound_nr(page) - 1;
>  				goto isolate_fail;
>  			}
> +
> +			/* Recheck page extra references under lock */
> +			if (page_count(page) > page_mapcount(page) +
> +				    (!PageAnon(page) || PageSwapCache(page)))
> +				goto isolate_fail;
>  		}
>  
>  		lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, pgdat);