The patch titled
Subject: mm, dump_page: do not crash with bad compound_mapcount()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-dump_page-do-not-crash-with-bad-compound_mapcount.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-dump_page-do-not-crash-with-bad-compound_mapcount.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-dump_page-do-not-crash-with-bad-compound_mapcount.patch
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From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm, dump_page: do not crash with bad compound_mapcount()
If a compound page is being split while dump_page() is being run on that
page, we can end up calling compound_mapcount() on a page that is no
longer compound. This leads to a crash (already seen at least once in the
field), due to the VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() assertion inside compound_mapcount().
(The above is from Matthew Wilcox's analysis of Qian Cai's bug report.)
A similar problem is possible, via compound_pincount() instead of
compound_mapcount().
In order to avoid this kind of crash, make dump_page() slightly more
robust, by providing a pair of simpler routines that don't contain
assertions: head_mapcount() and head_pincount().
For debug tools, we don't want to go *too* far in this direction, but this
is a simple small fix, and the crash has already been seen, so it's a good
trade-off.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200804214807.169256-1-jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 14 ++++++++++++--
mm/debug.c | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/mm.h~mm-dump_page-do-not-crash-with-bad-compound_mapcount
+++ a/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -779,6 +779,11 @@ static inline void *kvcalloc(size_t n, s
extern void kvfree(const void *addr);
extern void kvfree_sensitive(const void *addr, size_t len);
+static inline int head_mapcount(struct page *head)
+{
+ return atomic_read(compound_mapcount_ptr(head)) + 1;
+}
+
/*
* Mapcount of compound page as a whole, does not include mapped sub-pages.
*
@@ -788,7 +793,7 @@ static inline int compound_mapcount(stru
{
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageCompound(page), page);
page = compound_head(page);
- return atomic_read(compound_mapcount_ptr(page)) + 1;
+ return head_mapcount(page);
}
/*
@@ -901,11 +906,16 @@ static inline bool hpage_pincount_availa
return PageCompound(page) && compound_order(page) > 1;
}
+static inline int head_pincount(struct page *head)
+{
+ return atomic_read(compound_pincount_ptr(head));
+}
+
static inline int compound_pincount(struct page *page)
{
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!hpage_pincount_available(page), page);
page = compound_head(page);
- return atomic_read(compound_pincount_ptr(page));
+ return head_pincount(page);
}
static inline void set_compound_order(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
--- a/mm/debug.c~mm-dump_page-do-not-crash-with-bad-compound_mapcount
+++ a/mm/debug.c
@@ -102,12 +102,12 @@ void __dump_page(struct page *page, cons
if (hpage_pincount_available(page)) {
pr_warn("head:%p order:%u compound_mapcount:%d compound_pincount:%d\n",
head, compound_order(head),
- compound_mapcount(head),
- compound_pincount(head));
+ head_mapcount(head),
+ head_pincount(head));
} else {
pr_warn("head:%p order:%u compound_mapcount:%d\n",
head, compound_order(head),
- compound_mapcount(head));
+ head_mapcount(head));
}
}
if (PageKsm(page))
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx are
mm-dump_page-do-not-crash-with-bad-compound_mapcount.patch
