LTP proc01 testcase has been observed to rarely trigger crashes
on arm64:
page_mapped+0x78/0xb4
stable_page_flags+0x27c/0x338
kpageflags_read+0xfc/0x164
proc_reg_read+0x7c/0xb8
__vfs_read+0x58/0x178
vfs_read+0x90/0x14c
SyS_read+0x60/0xc0
Issue is that page_mapped() assumes that if compound page is not
huge, then it must be THP. But if this is 'normal' compound page
(COMPOUND_PAGE_DTOR), then following loop can keep running
(for HPAGE_PMD_NR iterations) until it tries to read from memory
that isn't mapped and triggers a panic:
for (i = 0; i < hpage_nr_pages(page); i++) {
if (atomic_read(&page[i]._mapcount) >= 0)
return true;
}
I could replicate this on x86 (v4.20-rc4-98-g60b548237fed) only
with a custom kernel module [1] which:
- allocates compound page (PAGEC) of order 1
- allocates 2 normal pages (COPY), which are initialized to 0xff
(to satisfy _mapcount >= 0)
- 2 PAGEC page structs are copied to address of first COPY page
- second page of COPY is marked as not present
- call to page_mapped(COPY) now triggers fault on access to 2nd
COPY page at offset 0x30 (_mapcount)
[1] https://github.com/jstancek/reproducers/blob/master/kernel/page_mapped_crash/repro.c
Fix the loop to iterate for "1 << compound_order" pages.
Debugged-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/util.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Changes in v2:
- change the loop instead so we check also mapcount of subpages
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 8bf08b5b5760..5c9c7359ee8a 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ bool page_mapped(struct page *page)
return true;
if (PageHuge(page))
return false;
- for (i = 0; i < hpage_nr_pages(page); i++) {
+ for (i = 0; i < (1 << compound_order(page)); i++) {
if (atomic_read(&page[i]._mapcount) >= 0)
return true;
}
--
1.8.3.1
