Hi there, We ran into very occasional VM_BUG_ONs whilst running the "syzkaller" fuzzing tool on an arm64 box: BUG: Bad page state in process syz-fuzzer pfn:50200 page:ffff7e0000408000 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping: (null) index:0x1 flags: 0xfffc00000000080(waiters) raw: 0fffc00000000080 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 00000000ffffffff raw: dead000000000100 dead000000000200 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 page dumped because: PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP flag set bad because of flags: 0x80(waiters) Modules linked in: CPU: 1 PID: 1274 Comm: syz-fuzzer Not tainted 4.11.0-rc3 #13 Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) Call trace: [<ffff200008094778>] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x538 arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c:73 [<ffff200008094cd0>] show_stack+0x20/0x30 arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c:228 [<ffff200008be82a8>] __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:16 [inline] [<ffff200008be82a8>] dump_stack+0x120/0x188 lib/dump_stack.c:52 [<ffff20000842c858>] bad_page+0x1d8/0x2e8 mm/page_alloc.c:555 [<ffff20000842cc68>] check_new_page_bad+0xf8/0x200 mm/page_alloc.c:1682 [<ffff20000843a2a0>] check_new_pages mm/page_alloc.c:1694 [inline] [<ffff20000843a2a0>] rmqueue mm/page_alloc.c:2729 [inline] [<ffff20000843a2a0>] get_page_from_freelist+0xc58/0x2580 mm/page_alloc.c:3046 [<ffff20000843cb80>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1d0/0x1af0 mm/page_alloc.c:3965 [<ffff200008548238>] __alloc_pages include/linux/gfp.h:426 [inline] [<ffff200008548238>] __alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:439 [inline] [<ffff200008548238>] alloc_pages_vma+0x438/0x7a8 mm/mempolicy.c:2015 [<ffff20000858299c>] do_huge_pmd_wp_page+0x4bc/0x1630 mm/huge_memory.c:1230 [<ffff2000084d7b80>] wp_huge_pmd mm/memory.c:3624 [inline] [<ffff2000084d7b80>] __handle_mm_fault+0x10a0/0x2760 mm/memory.c:3831 [<ffff2000084d9530>] handle_mm_fault+0x2f0/0x998 mm/memory.c:3878 [<ffff2000080bb9e4>] __do_page_fault arch/arm64/mm/fault.c:264 [inline] [<ffff2000080bb9e4>] do_page_fault+0x48c/0x730 arch/arm64/mm/fault.c:359 [<ffff2000080816b8>] do_mem_abort+0xd8/0x2c8 arch/arm64/mm/fault.c:578 Debugging the issue led to Mark's patch, which resolves the problem, but I found a couple of fastgup issues by inspection along the way. Comments welcome. Will --->8 Mark Rutland (1): mm: numa: avoid waiting on freed migrated pages Will Deacon (2): mm/page_ref: Ensure page_ref_unfreeze is ordered against prior accesses mm: migrate: Stabilise page count when migrating transparent hugepages include/linux/page_ref.h | 1 + mm/huge_memory.c | 8 +++++++- mm/migrate.c | 15 ++------------- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>