[PATCH 50 of 67] Do not try to migrate unmapped anonymous pages

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From: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>

rmap_walk_anon() was triggering errors in memory compaction that look like
use-after-free errors. The problem is that between the page being isolated
from the LRU and rcu_read_lock() being taken, the mapcount of the page
dropped to 0 and the anon_vma gets freed. This can happen during memory
compaction if pages being migrated belong to a process that exits before
migration completes. Hence, the use-after-free race looks like

 1. Page isolated for migration
 2. Process exits
 3. page_mapcount(page) drops to zero so anon_vma was no longer reliable
 4. unmap_and_move() takes the rcu_lock but the anon_vma is already garbage
 4. call try_to_unmap, looks up tha anon_vma and "locks" it but the lock
    is garbage.

This patch checks the mapcount after the rcu lock is taken. If the
mapcount is zero, the anon_vma is assumed to be freed and no further
action is taken.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -609,6 +609,17 @@ static int unmap_and_move(new_page_t get
 	if (PageAnon(page)) {
 		rcu_read_lock();
 		rcu_locked = 1;
+
+		/*
+		 * If the page has no mappings any more, just bail. An
+		 * unmapped anon page is likely to be freed soon but worse,
+		 * it's possible its anon_vma disappeared between when
+		 * the page was isolated and when we reached here while
+		 * the RCU lock was not held
+		 */
+		if (!page_mapped(page))
+			goto rcu_unlock;
+
 		anon_vma = page_anon_vma(page);
 		atomic_inc(&anon_vma->migrate_refcount);
 	}

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