linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/filemap: Adding missing mem_cgroup_uncharge() to __add_to_page_cache

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Message-ID: <YA8cvM9+wUX16l9L@cmpxchg.org>
Date:   Mon, 25 Jan 2021 14:32:12 -0500
From:   Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:     Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/filemap: Adding missing mem_cgroup_uncharge() to
 __add_to_page_cache_locked()

On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 11:24:41PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> The commit 3fea5a499d57 ("mm: memcontrol: convert page
> cache to a new mem_cgroup_charge() API") introduced a bug in
> __add_to_page_cache_locked() causing the following splat:
> 
>  [ 1570.068330] page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_memcg(page))
>  [ 1570.068333] pages's memcg:ffff8889a4116000
>  [ 1570.068343] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>  [ 1570.068346] kernel BUG at mm/memcontrol.c:2924!
>  [ 1570.068355] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
>  [ 1570.068359] CPU: 35 PID: 12345 Comm: cat Tainted: G S      W I       5.11.0-rc4-debug+ #1
>  [ 1570.068363] Hardware name: HP HP Z8 G4 Workstation/81C7, BIOS P60 v01.25 12/06/2017
>  [ 1570.068365] RIP: 0010:commit_charge+0xf4/0x130
>    :
>  [ 1570.068375] RSP: 0018:ffff8881b38d70e8 EFLAGS: 00010286
>  [ 1570.068379] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffea00260ddd00 RCX: 0000000000000027
>  [ 1570.068382] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffff88907ebe05a8
>  [ 1570.068384] RBP: ffffea00260ddd00 R08: ffffed120fd7c0b6 R09: ffffed120fd7c0b6
>  [ 1570.068386] R10: ffff88907ebe05ab R11: ffffed120fd7c0b5 R12: ffffea00260ddd38
>  [ 1570.068389] R13: ffff8889a4116000 R14: ffff8889a4116000 R15: 0000000000000001
>  [ 1570.068391] FS:  00007ff039638680(0000) GS:ffff88907ea00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>  [ 1570.068394] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>  [ 1570.068396] CR2: 00007f36f354cc20 CR3: 00000008a0126006 CR4: 00000000007706e0
>  [ 1570.068398] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
>  [ 1570.068400] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
>  [ 1570.068402] PKRU: 55555554
>  [ 1570.068404] Call Trace:
>  [ 1570.068407]  mem_cgroup_charge+0x175/0x770
>  [ 1570.068413]  __add_to_page_cache_locked+0x712/0xad0
>  [ 1570.068439]  add_to_page_cache_lru+0xc5/0x1f0
>  [ 1570.068461]  cachefiles_read_or_alloc_pages+0x895/0x2e10 [cachefiles]
>  [ 1570.068524]  __fscache_read_or_alloc_pages+0x6c0/0xa00 [fscache]
>  [ 1570.068540]  __nfs_readpages_from_fscache+0x16d/0x630 [nfs]
>  [ 1570.068585]  nfs_readpages+0x24e/0x540 [nfs]
>  [ 1570.068693]  read_pages+0x5b1/0xc40
>  [ 1570.068711]  page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x460/0x750
>  [ 1570.068729]  generic_file_buffered_read_get_pages+0x290/0x1710
>  [ 1570.068756]  generic_file_buffered_read+0x2a9/0xc30
>  [ 1570.068832]  nfs_file_read+0x13f/0x230 [nfs]
>  [ 1570.068872]  new_sync_read+0x3af/0x610
>  [ 1570.068901]  vfs_read+0x339/0x4b0
>  [ 1570.068909]  ksys_read+0xf1/0x1c0
>  [ 1570.068920]  do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
>  [ 1570.068926]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
>  [ 1570.068930] RIP: 0033:0x7ff039135595
> 
> Before that commit, there was a try_charge() and commit_charge()
> in __add_to_page_cache_locked(). These 2 separated charge functions
> were replaced by a single mem_cgroup_charge(). However, it forgot
> to add a matching mem_cgroup_uncharge() when the xarray insertion
> failed with the page released back to the pool. Fix this by adding a
> mem_cgroup_uncharge() call when insertion error happens.
> 
> Fixes: 3fea5a499d57 ("mm: memcontrol: convert page cache to a new mem_cgroup_charge() API")
> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>

Thanks Waiman.

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>

Since this crashes the kernel, we should also add

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # 5.8+