The patch titled Subject: mm: memory-failure: fix race window when trying to get hugetlb folio has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-memory-failure-fix-race-window-when-trying-to-get-hugetlb-folio.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-memory-failure-fix-race-window-when-trying-to-get-hugetlb-folio.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: memory-failure: fix race window when trying to get hugetlb folio Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 13:50:16 +0800 page_folio() is fetched before calling get_hwpoison_hugetlb_folio() without hugetlb_lock being held. So hugetlb page could be demoted before get_hwpoison_hugetlb_folio() holding hugetlb_lock but after page_folio() is fetched. So get_hwpoison_hugetlb_folio() will hold unexpected extra refcnt of hugetlb folio while leaving demoted page un-refcnted. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230711055016.2286677-9-linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 25182f05ffed ("mm,hwpoison: fix race with hugetlb page allocation") Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory-failure.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/mm/memory-failure.c~mm-memory-failure-fix-race-window-when-trying-to-get-hugetlb-folio +++ a/mm/memory-failure.c @@ -1383,8 +1383,15 @@ static int __get_hwpoison_page(struct pa bool hugetlb = false; ret = get_hwpoison_hugetlb_folio(folio, &hugetlb, false); - if (hugetlb) - return ret; + if (hugetlb) { + /* Make sure hugetlb demotion did not happen from under us. */ + if (folio == page_folio(page)) + return ret; + if (ret > 0) { + folio_put(folio); + folio = page_folio(page); + } + } /* * This check prevents from calling folio_try_get() for any @@ -1473,8 +1480,13 @@ static int __get_unpoison_page(struct pa bool hugetlb = false; ret = get_hwpoison_hugetlb_folio(folio, &hugetlb, true); - if (hugetlb) - return ret; + if (hugetlb) { + /* Make sure hugetlb demotion did not happen from under us. */ + if (folio == page_folio(page)) + return ret; + if (ret > 0) + folio_put(folio); + } /* * PageHWPoisonTakenOff pages are not only marked as PG_hwpoison, _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-mm_initc-update-obsolete-comment-in-get_pfn_range_for_nid.patch mm-memory-failure-fix-unexpected-return-value-in-soft_offline_page.patch mm-memory-failure-fix-potential-page-refcnt-leak-in-memory_failure.patch mm-memory-failure-remove-unneeded-page-state-check-in-shake_page.patch memory-tier-use-helper-function-destroy_memory_type.patch mm-memory-failure-remove-unneeded-inline-annotation.patch mm-mm_initc-remove-obsolete-macro-hash_small.patch mm-page_alloc-avoid-false-page-outside-zone-error-info.patch memory-tier-rename-destroy_memory_type-to-put_memory_type.patch mm-remove-obsolete-comment-above-struct-per_cpu_pages.patch mm-memcg-minor-cleanup-for-mem_cgroup_id_max.patch mm-memory-failure-remove-unneeded-pagehuge-check.patch mm-memory-failure-ensure-moving-hwpoison-flag-to-the-raw-error-pages.patch mm-memory-failure-dont-account-hwpoison_filter-filtered-pages.patch mm-memory-failure-use-local-variable-huge-to-check-hugetlb-page.patch mm-memory-failure-remove-unneeded-header-files.patch mm-memory-failure-minor-cleanup-for-comments-and-codestyle.patch mm-memory-failure-fetch-compound-head-after-extra-page-refcnt-is-held.patch mm-memory-failure-fix-race-window-when-trying-to-get-hugetlb-folio.patch