SunDong reported the following on https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103841 I think I find a linux bug, I have the test cases is constructed. I can stable recurring problems in fedora22(4.0.4) kernel version, arch for x86_64. I construct transparent huge page, when the parent and child process with MAP_SHARE, MAP_PRIVATE way to access the same huge page area, it has the opportunity to lead to huge page copy on write failure, and then it will munmap the child corresponding mmap area, but then the child mmap area with VM_MAYSHARE attributes, child process munmap this area can trigger VM_BUG_ON in set_vma_resv_flags functions (vma - > vm_flags & VM_MAYSHARE). There were a number of problems with the report (e.g. it's hugetlbfs that triggers this, not transparent huge pages) but it was fundamentally correct in that a VM_BUG_ON in set_vma_resv_flags() can be triggered that looks like this vma ffff8804651fd0d0 start 00007fc474e00000 end 00007fc475e00000 next ffff8804651fd018 prev ffff8804651fd188 mm ffff88046b1b1800 prot 8000000000000027 anon_vma (null) vm_ops ffffffff8182a7a0 pgoff 0 file ffff88106bdb9800 private_data (null) flags: 0x84400fb(read|write|shared|mayread|maywrite|mayexec|mayshare|dontexpand|hugetlb) ------------ kernel BUG at mm/hugetlb.c:462! SMP Modules linked in: xt_pkttype xt_LOG xt_limit iscsi_ibft iscsi_boot_sysfs af_packet ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 xt_tcpudp nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 ip6table_raw ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 iptable_raw xt_CT iptable_filter ip6table_mangle nf_conntrack_netbios_ns nf_conntrack_broadcast nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 ip_tables xt_conntrack nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables x_tables intel_powerclamp coretemp kvm_intel kvm mgag200 ttm drm_kms_helper drm crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel aes_x86_64 lrw ipmi_devintf gf128mul iTCO_wdt gpio_ich iTCO_vendor_support glue_helper ablk_helper dcdbas i7core_edac cryptd syscopyarea sysfillrect bnx2 sysimgblt lpc_ich serio_raw edac_core i2c_algo_bit shpchp mfd_core ipmi_si tpm_tis tpm ipmi_msghandler wmi acpi_power_meter button acpi_cpufreq processor dm_mod sr_mod cdrom ata_generic hid_generic usbhid hid uhci_hcd ehci_pci ehci_hcd usbcore ata_piix usb_common megaraid_sas sg CPU: 38 PID: 26839 Comm: map Not tainted 4.0.4-default #1 Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R810/0TT6JF, BIOS 2.7.4 04/26/2012 task: ffff88085ed10490 ti: ffff88085ed14000 task.ti: ffff88085ed14000 set_vma_resv_flags+0x2d/0x30 The VM_BUG_ON is correct because private and shared mappings have different reservation accounting but the warning clearly shows that the VMA is shared. When a private COW fails to allocate a new page then only the process that created the VMA gets the page -- all the children unmap the page. If the children access that data in the future then they get killed. The problem is that the same file is mapped shared and private. During the COW, the allocation fails, the VMAs are traversed to unmap the other private pages but a shared VMA is found and the bug is triggered. This patch identifies such VMAs and skips them. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: SunDong <sund_sky@xxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- mm/hugetlb.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index caad3c5a926f..6a8d86b0cb50 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -2787,6 +2787,14 @@ static void unmap_ref_private(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, continue; /* + * Shared VMAs have their own reserves and do not affect + * MAP_PRIVATE accounting but it is possible that a shared + * VMA is using the same page so check and skip such VMAs. + */ + if (iter_vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) + continue; + + /* * Unmap the page from other VMAs without their own reserves. * They get marked to be SIGKILLed if they fault in these * areas. This is because a future no-page fault on this VMA -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>