The patch titled
Subject: mm: memcontrol: fix stat-corrupting race in charge moving
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-memcontrol-fix-stat-corrupting-race-in-charge-moving.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: memcontrol: fix stat-corrupting race in charge moving
The move_lock is a per-memcg lock, but the VM accounting code that needs
to acquire it comes from the page and follows page->mem_cgroup under RCU
protection. That means that the page becomes unlocked not when we drop
the move_lock, but when we update page->mem_cgroup. And that assignment
doesn't imply any memory ordering. If that pointer write gets reordered
against the reads of the page state - page_mapped, PageDirty etc. the
state may change while we rely on it being stable and we can end up
corrupting the counters.
Place an SMP memory barrier to make sure we're done with all page state by
the time the new page->mem_cgroup becomes visible.
Also replace the open-coded move_lock with a lock_page_memcg() to make it
more obvious what we're serializing against.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200508183105.225460-3-hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 26 ++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c~mm-memcontrol-fix-stat-corrupting-race-in-charge-moving
+++ a/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -5432,7 +5432,6 @@ static int mem_cgroup_move_account(struc
{
struct lruvec *from_vec, *to_vec;
struct pglist_data *pgdat;
- unsigned long flags;
unsigned int nr_pages = compound ? hpage_nr_pages(page) : 1;
int ret;
bool anon;
@@ -5459,18 +5458,13 @@ static int mem_cgroup_move_account(struc
from_vec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(from, pgdat);
to_vec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(to, pgdat);
- spin_lock_irqsave(&from->move_lock, flags);
+ lock_page_memcg(page);
if (!anon && page_mapped(page)) {
__mod_lruvec_state(from_vec, NR_FILE_MAPPED, -nr_pages);
__mod_lruvec_state(to_vec, NR_FILE_MAPPED, nr_pages);
}
- /*
- * move_lock grabbed above and caller set from->moving_account, so
- * mod_memcg_page_state will serialize updates to PageDirty.
- * So mapping should be stable for dirty pages.
- */
if (!anon && PageDirty(page)) {
struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
@@ -5486,15 +5480,23 @@ static int mem_cgroup_move_account(struc
}
/*
+ * All state has been migrated, let's switch to the new memcg.
+ *
* It is safe to change page->mem_cgroup here because the page
- * is referenced, charged, and isolated - we can't race with
- * uncharging, charging, migration, or LRU putback.
+ * is referenced, charged, isolated, and locked: we can't race
+ * with (un)charging, migration, LRU putback, or anything else
+ * that would rely on a stable page->mem_cgroup.
+ *
+ * Note that lock_page_memcg is a memcg lock, not a page lock,
+ * to save space. As soon as we switch page->mem_cgroup to a
+ * new memcg that isn't locked, the above state can change
+ * concurrently again. Make sure we're truly done with it.
*/
+ smp_mb();
- /* caller should have done css_get */
- page->mem_cgroup = to;
+ page->mem_cgroup = to; /* caller should have done css_get */
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&from->move_lock, flags);
+ __unlock_page_memcg(from);
ret = 0;
_
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