Re: [PATCH v6 4/5] mm: hugetlb: fix a race between isolating and freeing page
From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Date: 2021-01-15 13:27:47
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On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 08:49:41PM +0800, 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>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.orgReviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> -- Oscar Salvador SUSE L3