As all the other places, we grab the lock before manipulate the defer list. Current implementation may face a race condition. For example, the potential race would be: CPU1 CPU2 mem_cgroup_move_account split_huge_page_to_list !list_empty lock !list_empty list_del unlock lock # !list_empty might not hold anymore list_del_init unlock When this sequence happens, the list_del_init() in mem_cgroup_move_account() would crash if CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST since the page is already been removed by list_del in split_huge_page_to_list(). Fixes: 87eaceb3faa5 ("mm: thp: make deferred split shrinker memcg aware") Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: * move check on compound outside suggested by Alexander * an example of the race condition, suggested by Michal --- mm/memcontrol.c | 18 +++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index bc01423277c5..1492eefe4f3c 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -5368,10 +5368,12 @@ static int mem_cgroup_move_account(struct page *page, } #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE - if (compound && !list_empty(page_deferred_list(page))) { + if (compound) { spin_lock(&from->deferred_split_queue.split_queue_lock); - list_del_init(page_deferred_list(page)); - from->deferred_split_queue.split_queue_len--; + if (!list_empty(page_deferred_list(page))) { + list_del_init(page_deferred_list(page)); + from->deferred_split_queue.split_queue_len--; + } spin_unlock(&from->deferred_split_queue.split_queue_lock); } #endif @@ -5385,11 +5387,13 @@ static int mem_cgroup_move_account(struct page *page, page->mem_cgroup = to; #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE - if (compound && list_empty(page_deferred_list(page))) { + if (compound) { spin_lock(&to->deferred_split_queue.split_queue_lock); - list_add_tail(page_deferred_list(page), - &to->deferred_split_queue.split_queue); - to->deferred_split_queue.split_queue_len++; + if (list_empty(page_deferred_list(page))) { + list_add_tail(page_deferred_list(page), + &to->deferred_split_queue.split_queue); + to->deferred_split_queue.split_queue_len++; + } spin_unlock(&to->deferred_split_queue.split_queue_lock); } #endif -- 2.17.1