Re: [PATCH] mm: gup: fix infinite loop within __get_longterm_locked

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On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 1/20/25 1:26 AM, zhaoyang.huang wrote:
> > From: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Infinite loop within __get_longterm_locked detected in an unique usage
> > of pin_user_pages where the VA's pages are all unpinnable(vm_ops->fault
> > function allocate pages via cma_alloc for hardware purpose and leave them
> > out of LRU). Fixing this by have 'collected' reflect the actual number
> > of pages in movable_folio_list.
>
> The above is rather terse, although perhaps by kernel standards it's OK.
>
> Isn't this missing a Fixes tag?
>
> Fixes: 67e139b02d994 ("mm/gup.c: refactor
> check_and_migrate_movable_pages()")
ok. will amend in v2
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   mm/gup.c | 4 ++--
> >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
> > index 3b75e631f369..2231ce7221f9 100644
> > --- a/mm/gup.c
> > +++ b/mm/gup.c
> > @@ -2341,8 +2341,6 @@ static unsigned long collect_longterm_unpinnable_folios(
> >               if (folio_is_longterm_pinnable(folio))
> >                       continue;
> >
> > -             collected++;
> > -
> >               if (folio_is_device_coherent(folio))
> >                       continue;
> >
> > @@ -2359,6 +2357,8 @@ static unsigned long collect_longterm_unpinnable_folios(
> >               if (!folio_isolate_lru(folio))
> >                       continue;
> >
> > +             collected++;
> > +
>
> Well, this seems correct to me. Somehow I talked myself into believing
> that it was OK to do collected++ early, even though later on we skip
> actually collecting the folio, thus miscounting things.
>
> But now I believe it was just incorrect all along.
>
>
> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
thanks
>
> thanks,
> --
> John Hubbard





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