Thread (56 messages) 56 messages, 4 authors, 2021-01-09

Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] mm: hugetlb: fix a race between isolating and freeing page

From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Date: 2021-01-06 17:11:52
Also in: lkml

On Wed 06-01-21 16:47:38, Muchun Song wrote:
There is a race between isolate_huge_page() and __free_huge_page().

CPU0:                                       CPU1:

if (PageHuge(page))
                                            put_page(page)
                                              __free_huge_page(page)
                                                  spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock)
                                                  update_and_free_page(page)
                                                    set_compound_page_dtor(page,
                                                      NULL_COMPOUND_DTOR)
                                                  spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock)
  isolate_huge_page(page)
    // trigger BUG_ON
    VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHead(page), page)
    spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock)
    page_huge_active(page)
      // trigger BUG_ON
      VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHuge(page), page)
    spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock)

When we isolate a HugeTLB page on CPU0. Meanwhile, we free it to the
buddy allocator on CPU1. Then, we can trigger a BUG_ON on CPU0. Because
it is already freed to the buddy allocator.

Fixes: c8721bbbdd36 ("mm: memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage")
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <redacted>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

Thanks!
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 mm/hugetlb.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index bf02e81e3953..67200dd25b1d 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -5587,9 +5587,9 @@ bool isolate_huge_page(struct page *page, struct list_head *list)
 {
 	bool ret = true;
 
-	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHead(page), page);
 	spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
-	if (!page_huge_active(page) || !get_page_unless_zero(page)) {
+	if (!PageHeadHuge(page) || !page_huge_active(page) ||
+	    !get_page_unless_zero(page)) {
 		ret = false;
 		goto unlock;
 	}
-- 
2.11.0
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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