> On Nov 5, 2019, at 10:09 PM, Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In collapse_file(), for !is_shmem case, current check cannot guarantee
> the locked page is up-to-date. Specifically, xas_unlock_irq() should
> not be called before lock_page() and get_page(); and it is necessary to
> recheck PageUptodate() after locking the page.
>
> With this bug and CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS=y, madvise(HUGE)'ed .text
> may contain corrupted data. This is because khugepaged mistakenly
> collapses some not up-to-date sub pages into a huge page, and assumes
> the huge page is up-to-date. This will NOT corrupt data in the disk,
> because the page is read-only and never written back. Fix this by
> properly checking PageUptodate() after locking the page. This check
> replaces "VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageUptodate(page), page);".
>
> Also, move PageDirty() check after locking the page. Current
> khugepaged should not try to collapse dirty file THP, because it is
> limited to read-only .text. The only case we hit a dirty page here is
> when the page hasn't been written since write. Bail out and retry when
> this happens.
>
> syzbot reported bug on previous version of this patch.
>
> Fixes: 99cb0dbd47a1 ("mm,thp: add read-only THP support for (non-shmem) FS")
> Reported-by: syzbot+efb9e48b9fbdc49bb34a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx>
I think we need this in 5.4 official, but I haven't seen it in Linus'
master branch.
Hi Andrew,
Could you please send patch/pull-request for it?
Thanks,
Song
