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Date:   Mon, 7 Mar 2022 15:07:12 +0800
From:   Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
To:     HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也) 
        <naoya.horiguchi@....com>
CC:     "akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm/memory-failure.c: fix potential VM_BUG_ON_PAGE in
 split_huge_page_to_list

On 2022/3/4 16:28, HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也) wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 10:02:45PM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
>> The huge zero page could reach here and if we ever try to split it, the
>> VM_BUG_ON_PAGE will be triggered in split_huge_page_to_list(). Also the
>> non-lru compound movable pages could be taken for transhuge pages. Skip
>> these pages by checking PageLRU because huge zero page isn't lru page as
>> non-lru compound movable pages.
> 
> It seems that memory_failure() also fails at get_any_page() with "hwpoison:
> unhandlable page" message.
> 
>   [16478.203474] page:00000000b6acdbd1 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x1810b4
>   [16478.206612] flags: 0x57ffffc0801000(reserved|hwpoison|node=1|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
>   [16478.209411] raw: 0057ffffc0801000 fffff11bc6042d08 fffff11bc6042d08 0000000000000000
>   [16478.211921] raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
>   [16478.214473] page dumped because: hwpoison: unhandlable page
>   [16478.216386] Memory failure: 0x1810b4: recovery action for unknown page: Ignored
> 
> We can't handle errors on huge (or normal) zero page, so the current

Sorry for confusing commit log again. I should have a coffee before I make this patch.
Huge or normal zero page will fail at get_any_page because they're neither HWPoisonHandlable
nor PageHuge.

> behavior seems to me more suitable than "unsplit thp".
> 
> Or if you have some producer to reach the following path with huge zero
> page, could you share it?
> 

What I mean is that non-lru movable compound page can reach here unexpected because __PageMovable(page)
is handleable now. So get_any_page could succeed to grab the page refcnt. And since it's compound page,
it will go through the split_huge_page_to_list because PageTransHuge checks PageHead(page) which can also
be true for compound page. But this type of pages is unexpected for split_huge_page_to_list.

Does this make sense for you? Thanks Naoya.

> Thanks,
> Naoya Horiguchi
> 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
>> ---
>>  mm/memory-failure.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
>> index 23bfd809dc8c..ac6492e36978 100644
>> --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
>> +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
>> @@ -1792,6 +1792,20 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
>>  	}
>>  
>>  	if (PageTransHuge(hpage)) {
>> +		/*
>> +		 * The non-lru compound movable pages could be taken for
>> +		 * transhuge pages. Also huge zero page could reach here
>> +		 * and if we ever try to split it, the VM_BUG_ON_PAGE will
>> +		 * be triggered in split_huge_page_to_list(). Skip these
>> +		 * pages by checking PageLRU because huge zero page isn't
>> +		 * lru page as non-lru compound movable pages.
>> +		 */
>> +		if (!PageLRU(hpage)) {
>> +			put_page(p);
>> +			action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_UNSPLIT_THP, MF_IGNORED);
>> +			res = -EBUSY;
>> +			goto unlock_mutex;
>> +		}
>>  		/*
>>  		 * The flag must be set after the refcount is bumped
>>  		 * otherwise it may race with THP split.
>> -- 
>> 2.23.0