From: Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/rmap: stop store reordering issue on page->mapping Hugh Dickins and Minchan Kim observed a long time issue which discussed here, but actully the mentioned fix missed. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20150504031722.GA2768@blaptop/ The store reordering may cause problem in the scenario: CPU 0 CPU1 do_anonymous_page page_add_new_anon_rmap() page->mapping = anon_vma + PAGE_MAPPING_ANON lru_cache_add_inactive_or_unevictable() spin_lock(lruvec->lock) SetPageLRU() spin_unlock(lruvec->lock) /* idletacking judged it as LRU * page so pass the page in * page_idle_clear_pte_refs */ page_idle_clear_pte_refs rmap_walk if PageAnon(page) Johannes give detailed examples how the store reordering could cause a trouble: "The concern is the SetPageLRU may get reorder before 'page->mapping' setting, That would make CPU 1 will observe at page->mapping after observing PageLRU set on the page. 1. anon_vma + PAGE_MAPPING_ANON That's the in-order scenario and is fine. 2. NULL That's possible if the page->mapping store gets reordered to occur after SetPageLRU. That's fine too because we check for it. 3. anon_vma without the PAGE_MAPPING_ANON bit That would be a problem and could lead to all kinds of undesirable behavior including crashes and data corruption. Is it possible? AFAICT the compiler is allowed to tear the store to page->mapping and I don't see anything that would prevent it. That said, I also don't see how the reader testing PageLRU under the lru_lock would prevent that in the first place. AFAICT we need that WRITE_ONCE() around the page->mapping assignment." [alex.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: updated for comments change from Johannes] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e66ef2e5-c74c-6498-e8b3-56c37b9d2d15@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1604566549-62481-7-git-send-email-alex.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Chen, Rong A" <rong.a.chen@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/rmap.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/rmap.c~mm-rmap-stop-store-reordering-issue-on-page-mapping +++ a/mm/rmap.c @@ -1054,8 +1054,14 @@ static void __page_set_anon_rmap(struct if (!exclusive) anon_vma = anon_vma->root; + /* + * page_idle does a lockless/optimistic rmap scan on page->mapping. + * Make sure the compiler doesn't split the stores of anon_vma and + * the PAGE_MAPPING_ANON type identifier, otherwise the rmap code + * could mistake the mapping for a struct address_space and crash. + */ anon_vma = (void *) anon_vma + PAGE_MAPPING_ANON; - page->mapping = (struct address_space *) anon_vma; + WRITE_ONCE(page->mapping, (struct address_space *) anon_vma); page->index = linear_page_index(vma, address); } _
