I don't usually pay much attention to the stale "? " addresses in
stack backtraces, but this lucky report from Pawel Sikora hints that
mremap's move_ptes() has inadequate locking against page migration.
3.0 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(p)) in migration_entry_to_page():
kernel BUG at include/linux/swapops.h:105!
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81127b76>] [<ffffffff81127b76>]
migration_entry_wait+0x156/0x160
[<ffffffff811016a1>] handle_pte_fault+0xae1/0xaf0
[<ffffffff810feee2>] ? __pte_alloc+0x42/0x120
[<ffffffff8112c26b>] ? do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page+0xab/0x310
[<ffffffff81102a31>] handle_mm_fault+0x181/0x310
[<ffffffff81106097>] ? vma_adjust+0x537/0x570
[<ffffffff81424bed>] do_page_fault+0x11d/0x4e0
[<ffffffff81109a05>] ? do_mremap+0x2d5/0x570
[<ffffffff81421d5f>] page_fault+0x1f/0x30
mremap's down_write of mmap_sem, together with i_mmap_mutex or lock,
and pagetable locks, were good enough before page migration (with its
requirement that every migration entry be found) came in, and enough
while migration always held mmap_sem; but not enough nowadays, when
there's memory hotremove and compaction.
The danger is that move_ptes() lets a migration entry dodge around
behind remove_migration_pte()'s back, so it's in the old location when
looking at the new, then in the new location when looking at the old.
Either mremap's move_ptes() must additionally take anon_vma lock(), or
migration's remove_migration_pte() must stop peeking for is_swap_entry()
before it takes pagetable lock.
Consensus chooses the latter: we prefer to add overhead to migration
than to mremapping, which gets used by JVMs and by exec stack setup.
Reported-by: Pawel Sikora <pluto@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
mm/migrate.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- 3.1-rc10/mm/migrate.c 2011-07-21 19:17:23.000000000 -0700
+++ linux/mm/migrate.c 2011-10-19 11:48:51.243961016 -0700
@@ -120,10 +120,10 @@ static int remove_migration_pte(struct p
ptep = pte_offset_map(pmd, addr);
- if (!is_swap_pte(*ptep)) {
- pte_unmap(ptep);
- goto out;
- }
+ /*
+ * Peek to check is_swap_pte() before taking ptlock? No, we
+ * can race mremap's move_ptes(), which skips anon_vma lock.
+ */
ptl = pte_lockptr(mm, pmd);
}
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