Skip to content
Commit da1b13cc authored by Wanpeng Li's avatar Wanpeng Li Committed by Linus Torvalds
Browse files

mm/hwpoison: fix race between soft_offline_page and unpoison_memory



Wanpeng Li reported a race between soft_offline_page() and
unpoison_memory(), which causes the following kernel panic:

   BUG: Bad page state in process bash  pfn:97000
   page:ffffea00025c0000 count:0 mapcount:1 mapping:          (null) index:0x7f4fdbe00
   flags: 0x1fffff80080048(uptodate|active|swapbacked)
   page dumped because: PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE flag(s) set
   bad because of flags:
   flags: 0x40(active)
   Modules linked in: snd_hda_codec_hdmi i915 rpcsec_gss_krb5 nfsv4 dns_resolver bnep rfcomm nfsd bluetooth auth_rpcgss nfs_acl nfs rfkill lockd grace sunrpc i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_codec_generic drm snd_hda_intel fscache snd_hda_codec x86_pkg_temp_thermal coretemp kvm_intel snd_hda_core snd_hwdep kvm snd_pcm snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss crct10dif_pclmul snd_seq_midi crc32_pclmul snd_seq_midi_event ghash_clmulni_intel snd_rawmidi aesni_intel lrw gf128mul snd_seq glue_helper ablk_helper snd_seq_device cryptd fuse snd_timer dcdbas serio_raw mei_me parport_pc snd mei ppdev i2c_core video lp soundcore parport lpc_ich shpchp mfd_core ext4 mbcache jbd2 sd_mod e1000e ahci ptp libahci crc32c_intel libata pps_core
   CPU: 3 PID: 2211 Comm: bash Not tainted 4.2.0-rc5-mm1+ #45
   Hardware name: Dell Inc. OptiPlex 7020/0F5C5X, BIOS A03 01/08/2015
   Call Trace:
     dump_stack+0x48/0x5c
     bad_page+0xe6/0x140
     free_pages_prepare+0x2f9/0x320
     ? uncharge_list+0xdd/0x100
     free_hot_cold_page+0x40/0x170
     __put_single_page+0x20/0x30
     put_page+0x25/0x40
     unmap_and_move+0x1a6/0x1f0
     migrate_pages+0x100/0x1d0
     ? kill_procs+0x100/0x100
     ? unlock_page+0x6f/0x90
     __soft_offline_page+0x127/0x2a0
     soft_offline_page+0xa6/0x200

This race is explained like below:

  CPU0                    CPU1

  soft_offline_page
  __soft_offline_page
  TestSetPageHWPoison
                        unpoison_memory
                        PageHWPoison check (true)
                        TestClearPageHWPoison
                        put_page    -> release refcount held by get_hwpoison_page in unpoison_memory
                        put_page    -> release refcount held by isolate_lru_page in __soft_offline_page
  migrate_pages

The second put_page() releases refcount held by isolate_lru_page() which
will lead to unmap_and_move() releases the last refcount of page and w/
mapcount still 1 since try_to_unmap() is not called if there is only one
user map the page.  Anyway, the page refcount and mapcount will still
mess if the page is mapped by multiple users.

This race was introduced by commit 4491f712 ("mm/memory-failure: set
PageHWPoison before migrate_pages()"), which focuses on preventing the
reuse of successfully migrated page.  Before this commit we prevent the
reuse by changing the migratetype to MIGRATE_ISOLATE during soft
offlining, which has the following problems, so simply reverting the
commit is not a best option:

  1) it doesn't eliminate the reuse completely, because
     set_migratetype_isolate() can fail to set MIGRATE_ISOLATE to the
     target page if the pageblock of the page contains one or more
     unmovable pages (i.e.  has_unmovable_pages() returns true).

  2) the original code changes migratetype to MIGRATE_ISOLATE
     forcibly, and sets it to MIGRATE_MOVABLE forcibly after soft offline,
     regardless of the original migratetype state, which could impact
     other subsystems like memory hotplug or compaction.

This patch moves PageSetHWPoison just after put_page() in
unmap_and_move(), which closes up the reported race window and minimizes
another race window b/w SetPageHWPoison and reallocation (which causes
the reuse of soft-offlined page.) The latter race window still exists
but it's acceptable, because it's rare and effectively the same as
ordinary "containment failure" case even if it happens, so keep the
window open is acceptable.

Fixes: 4491f712 ("mm/memory-failure: set PageHWPoison before migrate_pages()")
Signed-off-by: default avatarWanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Reported-by: default avatarWanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Tested-by: default avatarWanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 8e30456b
0% or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment