mm: make wait_on_page_writeback() wait for multiple pending writebacks
Ever since commit 2a9127fc ("mm: rewrite wait_on_page_bit_common() logic") we've had some very occasional reports of BUG_ON(PageWriteback) in write_cache_pages(), which we thought we already fixed in commit 073861ed ("mm: fix VM_BUG_ON(PageTail) and BUG_ON(PageWriteback)"). But syzbot just reported another one, even with that commit in place. And it turns out that there's a simpler way to trigger the BUG_ON() than the one Hugh found with page re-use. It all boils down to the fact that the page writeback is ostensibly serialized by the page lock, but that isn't actually really true. Yes, the people _setting_ writeback all do so under the page lock, but the actual clearing of the bit - and waking up any waiters - happens without any page lock. This gives us this fairly simple race condition: CPU1 = end previous writeback CPU2 = start new writeback under page lock CPU3 = write_cache_pages() CPU1 CPU2 ...
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