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SubjectRe: page-flags behavior on compound pages: a worry
On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 12:24:22PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > IIUC, the only potentially problematic callsites left are physical memory
> > scanners. This code requires audit. I'll do that.
>
> Please.

I haven't finished the exercise yet. But here's an issue I believe present
in current *Linus* tree:

From e78eec7d7a8c4cba8b5952a997973f7741e704f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 17:09:16 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] mm: fix potential race in isolate_migratepages_block()

Hugh has pointed that compound_head() call can be unsafe in some context.
There's one example:

CPU0 CPU1

isolate_migratepages_block()
page_count()
compound_head()
!!PageTail() == true
put_page()
tail->first_page = NULL
head = tail->first_page
alloc_pages(__GFP_COMP)
prep_compound_page()
tail->first_page = head
__SetPageTail(p);
!!PageTail() == true
<head == NULL dereferencing>

The race is pure theoretical. I don't it's possible to trigger it in
practice. But who knows.

This can be fixed by avoiding compound_head() in unsafe context.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
---
mm/compaction.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 86f04e556f96..bec727b700d3 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -787,7 +787,7 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long low_pfn,
* admittedly racy check.
*/
if (!page_mapping(page) &&
- page_count(page) > page_mapcount(page))
+ atomic_read(&page->_count) > page_mapcount(page))
continue;

/* If we already hold the lock, we can skip some rechecking */
--
Kirill A. Shutemov

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