On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 01:18:51PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 30-11-18 13:06:57, Jan Stancek wrote:
> > 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.
>
> This is much less magic than the previous version. It is still not clear
> to me how is mapping higher order pages to page tables other than THP
> though. So a more detailed information about the source would bre really
> welcome. Once we know that we can add a Fixes tag and also mark the
> patch for stable because that sounds like a stable material.
IIRC, sound subsystem can producuce custom mapped compound pages.
The bug dates back to e1534ae95004.
> > Debugged-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Suggested-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The patch looks sensible to me
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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