On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 09:52:44AM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Tejun, while reviewing the code, spotted the following race condition
> between the dirtying and truncation of a page:
>
> __set_page_dirty_nobuffers() __delete_from_page_cache()
> if (TestSetPageDirty(page))
> page->mapping = NULL
> if (PageDirty())
> dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
> dec_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
> if (page->mapping)
> account_page_dirtied(page)
> __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
> __inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
>
> which results in an imbalance of NR_FILE_DIRTY and BDI_RECLAIMABLE.
>
> Dirtiers usually lock out truncation, either by holding the page lock
> directly, or in case of zap_pte_range(), by pinning the mapcount with
> the page table lock held. The notable exception to this rule, though,
> is do_wp_page(), for which this race exists. However, do_wp_page()
> already waits for a locked page to unlock before setting the dirty
> bit, in order to prevent a race where clear_page_dirty() misses the
> page bit in the presence of dirty ptes. Upgrade that wait to a fully
> locked set_page_dirty() to also cover the situation explained above.
>
> Afterwards, the code in set_page_dirty() dealing with a truncation
> race is no longer needed. Remove it.
>
> Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Johannes,
I'm seeing the following while fuzzing with trinity on linux-next (I've changed
the WARN to a VM_BUG_ON_PAGE for some extra page info).
[ 18.991007] page:ffffea000307c8c0 count:3 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff88010444cbf8 index:0x1^M
[ 18.993051] flags: 0x1fffc0000000011(locked|dirty)^M
[ 18.993621] raw: 01fffc0000000011 ffff88010444cbf8 0000000000000001 00000003ffffffff^M
[ 18.994522] raw: dead000000000100 dead000000000200 0000000000000000 ffff880109c38008^M [ 18.995418] page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PagePrivate(page) && !PageUptodate(page))^M
[ 18.996381] page->mem_cgroup:ffff880109c38008^M [ 18.996935] ------------[ cut here ]------------^M [ 18.997483] kernel BUG at mm/page-writeback.c:2486!^M [ 18.998063] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN^M
[ 18.998756] Modules linked in:^M [ 18.999129] CPU: 5 PID: 1388 Comm: trinity-c34 Not tainted 4.11.0-rc5-next-20170407-dirty #12^M [ 19.000117] task: ffff880106ee5d40 task.stack: ffff8800c0f40000^M [ 19.000828] RIP: 0010:__set_page_dirty_nobuffers (??:?)
[ 19.001491] RSP: 0018:ffff8800c0f47318 EFLAGS: 00010006^M
[ 19.002103] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 1ffff100181e8e67 RCX: 0000000000000000^M
[ 19.002929] RDX: 0000000000000021 RSI: 1ffff100181e8da7 RDI: ffffed00181e8e58^M
[ 19.004806] RBP: ffff8800c0f47440 R08: 3830303833633930 R09: 3130383866666666^M
[ 19.005626] R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: 0000000000001491 R12: ffff8800c0f47418^M
[ 19.006452] R13: ffffea000307c8c0 R14: ffff88010444cc10 R15: ffff88010444cbf8^M
[ 19.007277] FS: 00007ff6a26fb700(0000) GS:ffff88010a340000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000^M
[ 19.008424] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033^M
[ 19.009092] CR2: 00007ff6a155267c CR3: 00000000cb301000 CR4: 00000000000406a0^M
[ 19.009919] Call Trace:^M
[ 19.012266] set_page_dirty (mm/page-writeback.c:2579)
[ 19.020028] v9fs_write_end (fs/9p/vfs_addr.c:325)
[ 19.022473] generic_perform_write (mm/filemap.c:2842)
[ 19.024857] __generic_file_write_iter (mm/filemap.c:2957)
[ 19.025830] generic_file_write_iter (./include/linux/fs.h:702 mm/filemap.c:2985)
[ 19.028549] __do_readv_writev (./include/linux/fs.h:1734 fs/read_write.c:696 fs/read_write.c:862)
[ 19.029924] do_readv_writev (fs/read_write.c:895)
[ 19.034044] vfs_writev (fs/read_write.c:921)
[ 19.035223] do_writev (fs/read_write.c:955)
[ 19.036925] SyS_writev (fs/read_write.c:1024)
[ 19.037297] do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:284)
[ 19.042085] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:249) [ 19.042608] RIP: 0033:0x7ff6a200a8e9^M [ 19.043015] RSP: 002b:00007fff78079608 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000014^M
[ 19.044253] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000014 RCX: 00007ff6a200a8e9^M [ 19.045045] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000002337d60 RDI: 000000000000018b^M
[ 19.045835] RBP: 00007ff6a2601000 R08: 000000482a1a83cf R09: fffdffffffffffff^M [ 19.046627] R10: 0012536735f82cf7 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000002^M [ 19.047413] R13: 00007ff6a2601048 R14: 00007ff6a26fb698 R15: 00007ff6a2601000^M [ 19.048212] Code: 89 85 f0 fe ff ff e8 39 1b 20 00 8b 85 f0 fe ff ff eb 1a e8 2c bd 12 00 31 c0 eb 11 48 c7 c6 e0 c4 47 83 4c 89 ef e8 39 44 07 00 <0f> 0b 48 ba 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 c7 04 13 00 00 00 00 48 ^M All code ======== 0: 89 85 f0 fe ff ff mov %eax,-0x110(%rbp)
6: e8 39 1b 20 00 callq 0x201b44
b: 8b 85 f0 fe ff ff mov -0x110(%rbp),%eax
11: eb 1a jmp 0x2d
13: e8 2c bd 12 00 callq 0x12bd44
18: 31 c0 xor %eax,%eax
1a: eb 11 jmp 0x2d
1c: 48 c7 c6 e0 c4 47 83 mov $0xffffffff8347c4e0,%rsi
23: 4c 89 ef mov %r13,%rdi
26: e8 39 44 07 00 callq 0x74464
2b:* 0f 0b ud2 <-- trapping instruction
2d: 48 ba 00 00 00 00 00 movabs $0xdffffc0000000000,%rdx
34: fc ff df
37: 48 c7 04 13 00 00 00 movq $0x0,(%rbx,%rdx,1)
3e: 00
3f: 48 rex.W
...
Code starting with the faulting instruction
===========================================
0: 0f 0b ud2
2: 48 ba 00 00 00 00 00 movabs $0xdffffc0000000000,%rdx
9: fc ff df
c: 48 c7 04 13 00 00 00 movq $0x0,(%rbx,%rdx,1)
13: 00
14: 48 rex.W
...
[ 19.050311] RIP: __set_page_dirty_nobuffers+0x407/0x450 RSP: ffff8800c0f47318^M (??:?)
--
Thanks,
Sasha
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