The patch titled mm: migration: use rcu_dereference_protected when dereferencing the radix tree slot during file page migration has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-migration-use-rcu_dereference_protected-when-dereferencing-the-radix-tree-slot-during-file-page-migration.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: mm: migration: use rcu_dereference_protected when dereferencing the radix tree slot during file page migration From: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> migrate_pages() -> unmap_and_move() only calls rcu_read_lock() for anonymous pages, as introduced by git commit 989f89c57e6361e7d16fbd9572b5da7d313b073d ("fix rcu_read_lock() in page migraton"). The point of the RCU protection there is part of getting a stable reference to anon_vma and is only held for anon pages as file pages are locked which is sufficient protection against freeing. However, while a file page's mapping is being migrated, the radix tree is double checked to ensure it is the expected page. This uses radix_tree_deref_slot() -> rcu_dereference() without the RCU lock held triggering the following warning. [ 173.674290] =================================================== [ 173.676016] [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ] [ 173.676016] --------------------------------------------------- [ 173.676016] include/linux/radix-tree.h:145 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! [ 173.676016] [ 173.676016] other info that might help us debug this: [ 173.676016] [ 173.676016] [ 173.676016] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0 [ 173.676016] 1 lock held by hugeadm/2899: [ 173.676016] #0: (&(&inode->i_data.tree_lock)->rlock){..-.-.}, at: [<c10e3d2b>] migrate_page_move_mapping+0x40/0x1ab [ 173.676016] [ 173.676016] stack backtrace: [ 173.676016] Pid: 2899, comm: hugeadm Not tainted 2.6.37-rc5-autobuild [ 173.676016] Call Trace: [ 173.676016] [<c128cc01>] ? printk+0x14/0x1b [ 173.676016] [<c1063502>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0x7d/0x86 [ 173.676016] [<c10e3db5>] migrate_page_move_mapping+0xca/0x1ab [ 173.676016] [<c10e41ad>] migrate_page+0x23/0x39 [ 173.676016] [<c10e491b>] buffer_migrate_page+0x22/0x107 [ 173.676016] [<c10e48f9>] ? buffer_migrate_page+0x0/0x107 [ 173.676016] [<c10e425d>] move_to_new_page+0x9a/0x1ae [ 173.676016] [<c10e47e6>] migrate_pages+0x1e7/0x2fa This patch introduces radix_tree_deref_slot_protected() which calls rcu_dereference_protected(). Users of it must pass in the mapping->tree_lock that is protecting this dereference. Holding the tree lock protects against parallel updaters of the radix tree meaning that rcu_dereference_protected is allowable. [akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: remove unneeded casts] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@xxxxxxx> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> [2.6.37.early] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/radix-tree.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++ mm/migrate.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/radix-tree.h~mm-migration-use-rcu_dereference_protected-when-dereferencing-the-radix-tree-slot-during-file-page-migration include/linux/radix-tree.h --- a/include/linux/radix-tree.h~mm-migration-use-rcu_dereference_protected-when-dereferencing-the-radix-tree-slot-during-file-page-migration +++ a/include/linux/radix-tree.h @@ -146,6 +146,22 @@ static inline void *radix_tree_deref_slo } /** + * radix_tree_deref_slot_protected - dereference a slot without RCU lock but with tree lock held + * @pslot: pointer to slot, returned by radix_tree_lookup_slot + * Returns: item that was stored in that slot with any direct pointer flag + * removed. + * + * Similar to radix_tree_deref_slot but only used during migration when a pages + * mapping is being moved. The caller does not hold the RCU read lock but it + * must hold the tree lock to prevent parallel updates. + */ +static inline void *radix_tree_deref_slot_protected(void **pslot, + spinlock_t *treelock) +{ + return rcu_dereference_protected(*pslot, lockdep_is_held(treelock)); +} + +/** * radix_tree_deref_retry - check radix_tree_deref_slot * @arg: pointer returned by radix_tree_deref_slot * Returns: 0 if retry is not required, otherwise retry is required diff -puN mm/migrate.c~mm-migration-use-rcu_dereference_protected-when-dereferencing-the-radix-tree-slot-during-file-page-migration mm/migrate.c --- a/mm/migrate.c~mm-migration-use-rcu_dereference_protected-when-dereferencing-the-radix-tree-slot-during-file-page-migration +++ a/mm/migrate.c @@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ static int migrate_page_move_mapping(str expected_count = 2 + page_has_private(page); if (page_count(page) != expected_count || - (struct page *)radix_tree_deref_slot(pslot) != page) { + radix_tree_deref_slot_protected(pslot, &mapping->tree_lock) != page) { spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock); return -EAGAIN; } @@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ int migrate_huge_page_move_mapping(struc expected_count = 2 + page_has_private(page); if (page_count(page) != expected_count || - (struct page *)radix_tree_deref_slot(pslot) != page) { + radix_tree_deref_slot_protected(pslot, &mapping->tree_lock) != page) { spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock); return -EAGAIN; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mel@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch writeback-io-less-balance_dirty_pages.patch writeback-consolidate-variable-names-in-balance_dirty_pages.patch writeback-per-task-rate-limit-on-balance_dirty_pages.patch writeback-per-task-rate-limit-on-balance_dirty_pages-fix.patch writeback-prevent-duplicate-balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited-calls.patch writeback-account-per-bdi-accumulated-written-pages.patch writeback-bdi-write-bandwidth-estimation.patch writeback-bdi-write-bandwidth-estimation-fix.patch writeback-show-bdi-write-bandwidth-in-debugfs.patch writeback-quit-throttling-when-bdi-dirty-pages-dropped-low.patch writeback-reduce-per-bdi-dirty-threshold-ramp-up-time.patch writeback-make-reasonable-gap-between-the-dirty-background-thresholds.patch writeback-scale-down-max-throttle-bandwidth-on-concurrent-dirtiers.patch writeback-add-trace-event-for-balance_dirty_pages.patch writeback-make-nr_to_write-a-per-file-limit.patch writeback-make-nr_to_write-a-per-file-limit-fix.patch thp-add-pagetranscompound.patch add-debugging-aid-for-memory-initialisation-problems.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html