On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:11:06 -0800 Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Sorry for the churn. As I find and fix one issue I seem to discover another. > There is still at least one more issue with private pages when COW comes into > play. I continue to work that. I wanted to send this patch earlier as it > is pretty easy to hit the bugs if you try. If you would prefer another > approach, let me know. > No probs, the bug doesn't seem to be causing a lot of bother out there and it's cc:stable; there's time to get this right ;) Here's the delta I queued: --- a/mm/hugetlb.c~huegtlbfs-fix-races-and-page-leaks-during-migration-update +++ a/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -3729,6 +3729,7 @@ static vm_fault_t hugetlb_no_page(struct pte_t new_pte; spinlock_t *ptl; unsigned long haddr = address & huge_page_mask(h); + bool new_page = false; /* * Currently, we are forced to kill the process in the event the @@ -3790,6 +3791,7 @@ retry: } clear_huge_page(page, address, pages_per_huge_page(h)); __SetPageUptodate(page); + new_page = true; if (vma->vm_flags & VM_MAYSHARE) { int err = huge_add_to_page_cache(page, mapping, idx); @@ -3861,8 +3863,9 @@ retry: spin_unlock(ptl); - /* May already be set if not newly allocated page */ - set_page_huge_active(page); + /* Make newly allocated pages active */ + if (new_page) + set_page_huge_active(page); unlock_page(page); out: --- a/mm/migrate.c~huegtlbfs-fix-races-and-page-leaks-during-migration-update +++ a/mm/migrate.c @@ -1315,6 +1315,16 @@ static int unmap_and_move_huge_page(new_ lock_page(hpage); } + /* + * Check for pages which are in the process of being freed. Without + * page_mapping() set, hugetlbfs specific move page routine will not + * be called and we could leak usage counts for subpools. + */ + if (page_private(hpage) && !page_mapping(hpage)) { + rc = -EBUSY; + goto out_unlock; + } + if (PageAnon(hpage)) anon_vma = page_get_anon_vma(hpage); @@ -1345,6 +1355,7 @@ put_anon: put_new_page = NULL; } +out_unlock: unlock_page(hpage); out: if (rc != -EAGAIN) _