linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] proc: kpagecount: use snapshot

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Message-ID: <16a6a7c6-518a-4558-a8aa-698e24f2e189@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:41:20 -0400
From: Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@...hat.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, willy@...radead.org,
 akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, shivankg@....com,
 sj@...nel.org, harry.yoo@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] proc: kpagecount: use snapshot_page()

On 2025-07-16 06:17, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 14.07.25 15:16, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
>> Currently, the call to folio_precise_page_mapcount() from kpage_read()
>> can race with a folio split. When the race happens we trigger a
>> VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO() in folio_entire_mapcount() (see splat below).
>>
>> This commit fixes this race by using snapshot_page() so that we
>> retrieve the folio mapcount using a folio snapshot.
>>
>> [ 2356.558576] page: refcount:1 mapcount:1 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff85200 pfn:0x6f7c00
>> [ 2356.558748] memcg:ffff000651775780
>> [ 2356.558763] anon flags: 0xafffff60020838(uptodate|dirty|lru|owner_2|swapbacked|node=1|zone=2|lastcpupid=0xfffff)
>> [ 2356.558796] raw: 00afffff60020838 fffffdffdb5d0048 fffffdffdadf7fc8 ffff00064c1629c1
>> [ 2356.558817] raw: 0000000ffff85200 0000000000000000 0000000100000000 ffff000651775780
>> [ 2356.558839] page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_large(folio))
>> [ 2356.558882] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> [ 2356.558897] kernel BUG at ./include/linux/mm.h:1103!
>> [ 2356.558982] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1]  SMP
>> [ 2356.564729] CPU: 8 UID: 0 PID: 1864 Comm: folio-split-rac Tainted: G S      W           6.15.0+ #3 PREEMPT(voluntary)
>> [ 2356.566196] Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, [W]=WARN
>> [ 2356.566814] Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS edk2-20241117-3.el9 11/17/2024
>> [ 2356.567684] pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
>> [ 2356.568563] pc : kpage_read.constprop.0+0x26c/0x290
>> [ 2356.569605] lr : kpage_read.constprop.0+0x26c/0x290
>> [ 2356.569992] sp : ffff80008fb739b0
>> [ 2356.570263] x29: ffff80008fb739b0 x28: ffff00064aa69580 x27: 00000000ff000000
>> [ 2356.570842] x26: 0000fffffffffff8 x25: ffff00064aa69580 x24: ffff80008fb73ae0
>> [ 2356.571411] x23: 0000000000000001 x22: 0000ffff86c6e8b8 x21: 0000000000000008
>> [ 2356.571978] x20: 00000000006f7c00 x19: 0000ffff86c6e8b8 x18: 0000000000000000
>> [ 2356.572581] x17: 3630303066666666 x16: 0000000000000003 x15: 0000000000001000
>> [ 2356.573217] x14: 00000000ffffffff x13: 0000000000000004 x12: 00aaaaaa00aaaaaa
>> [ 2356.577674] x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 00aaaaaa00aaaaaa x9 : ffffbf3afca6c300
>> [ 2356.578332] x8 : 0000000000000002 x7 : 0000000000000001 x6 : 0000000000000001
>> [ 2356.578984] x5 : ffff000c79812408 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000
>> [ 2356.579635] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : ffff00064aa69580 x0 : 000000000000003e
>> [ 2356.580286] Call trace:
>> [ 2356.580524]  kpage_read.constprop.0+0x26c/0x290 (P)
>> [ 2356.580982]  kpagecount_read+0x28/0x40
>> [ 2356.581336]  proc_reg_read+0x38/0x100
>> [ 2356.581681]  vfs_read+0xcc/0x320
>> [ 2356.581992]  ksys_read+0x74/0x118
>> [ 2356.582306]  __arm64_sys_read+0x24/0x38
>> [ 2356.582668]  invoke_syscall+0x70/0x100
>> [ 2356.583022]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x48/0xf8
>> [ 2356.583456]  do_el0_svc+0x28/0x40
>> [ 2356.583930]  el0_svc+0x38/0x118
>> [ 2356.584328]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x144/0x168
>> [ 2356.584883]  el0t_64_sync+0x19c/0x1a0
>> [ 2356.585350] Code: aa0103e0 9003a541 91082021 97f813fc (d4210000)
>> [ 2356.586130] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
>> [ 2356.587377] note: folio-split-rac[1864] exited with irqs disabled
>> [ 2356.588050] note: folio-split-rac[1864] exited with preempt_count 1
>>
>> Reported-by: syzbot+3d7dc5eaba6b932f8535@...kaller.appspotmail.com
>> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/67812fbd.050a0220.d0267.0030.GAE@google.com/
>> Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@...hat.com>
>> ---
>>   fs/proc/page.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++----
>>   1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/proc/page.c b/fs/proc/page.c
>> index 999af26c7298..936f8bbe5a6f 100644
>> --- a/fs/proc/page.c
>> +++ b/fs/proc/page.c
>> @@ -43,6 +43,22 @@ static inline unsigned long get_max_dump_pfn(void)
>>   #endif
>>   }
>> +static u64 get_kpage_count(const struct page *page)
>> +{
>> +    struct page_snapshot ps;
>> +    u64 ret;
>> +
>> +    snapshot_page(&ps, page);
> 
> Curious, if the snapshot is not faithful, maybe we simply want to return 0 or sth. like that?

I chose the flag because it's not exactly that the snapshot failed as it
tries to return something. But it's not a big deal to return failure
instead.

> 
> In any case
> 
> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
>