The patch titled Subject: mm: fix race between mremap and removing migration entry has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-fix-race-between-mremap-and-removing-migration-entry.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/ ------------------------------------------------------ From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: fix race between mremap and removing migration entry I don't usually pay much attention to the stale "? " addresses in stack backtraces, but this lucky report from Pawel Sikora hints that mremap's move_ptes() has inadequate locking against page migration. 3.0 BUG_ON(!PageLocked(p)) in migration_entry_to_page(): kernel BUG at include/linux/swapops.h:105! RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81127b76>] [<ffffffff81127b76>] migration_entry_wait+0x156/0x160 [<ffffffff811016a1>] handle_pte_fault+0xae1/0xaf0 [<ffffffff810feee2>] ? __pte_alloc+0x42/0x120 [<ffffffff8112c26b>] ? do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page+0xab/0x310 [<ffffffff81102a31>] handle_mm_fault+0x181/0x310 [<ffffffff81106097>] ? vma_adjust+0x537/0x570 [<ffffffff81424bed>] do_page_fault+0x11d/0x4e0 [<ffffffff81109a05>] ? do_mremap+0x2d5/0x570 [<ffffffff81421d5f>] page_fault+0x1f/0x30 mremap's down_write of mmap_sem, together with i_mmap_mutex or lock, and pagetable locks, were good enough before page migration (with its requirement that every migration entry be found) came in, and enough while migration always held mmap_sem; but not enough nowadays, when there's memory hotremove and compaction. The danger is that move_ptes() lets a migration entry dodge around behind remove_migration_pte()'s back, so it's in the old location when looking at the new, then in the new location when looking at the old. Either mremap's move_ptes() must additionally take anon_vma lock(), or migration's remove_migration_pte() must stop peeking for is_swap_entry() before it takes pagetable lock. Consensus chooses the latter: we prefer to add overhead to migration than to mremapping, which gets used by JVMs and by exec stack setup. Reported-by: Pawel Sikora <pluto@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/migrate.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/migrate.c~mm-fix-race-between-mremap-and-removing-migration-entry mm/migrate.c --- a/mm/migrate.c~mm-fix-race-between-mremap-and-removing-migration-entry +++ a/mm/migrate.c @@ -120,10 +120,10 @@ static int remove_migration_pte(struct p ptep = pte_offset_map(pmd, addr); - if (!is_swap_pte(*ptep)) { - pte_unmap(ptep); - goto out; - } + /* + * Peek to check is_swap_pte() before taking ptlock? No, we + * can race mremap's move_ptes(), which skips anon_vma lock. + */ ptl = pte_lockptr(mm, pmd); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hughd@xxxxxxxxxx are proc-self-numa_maps-restore-huge-tag-for-hugetlb-vmas.patch linux-next.patch drm-avoid-switching-to-text-console-if-there-is-no-panic-timeout.patch radix_tree-clean-away-saw_unset_tag-leftovers.patch tmpfs-add-tmpfs-to-the-kconfig-prompt-to-make-it-obvious.patch mm-distinguish-between-mlocked-and-pinned-pages.patch mremap-check-for-overflow-using-deltas.patch mremap-avoid-sending-one-ipi-per-page.patch thp-mremap-support-and-tlb-optimization.patch thp-mremap-support-and-tlb-optimization-fix.patch thp-mremap-support-and-tlb-optimization-fix-fix.patch thp-tail-page-refcounting-fix-5.patch powerpc-remove-superfluous-pagetail-checks-on-the-pte-gup_fast.patch powerpc-get_hugepte-dont-put_page-the-wrong-page.patch powerpc-gup_hugepte-avoid-to-free-the-head-page-too-many-times.patch powerpc-gup_hugepte-support-thp-based-tail-recounting.patch powerpc-gup_huge_pmd-return-0-if-pte-changes.patch s390-gup_huge_pmd-support-thp-tail-recounting.patch s390-gup_huge_pmd-return-0-if-pte-changes.patch sparc-gup_pte_range-support-thp-based-tail-recounting.patch thp-share-get_huge_page_tail.patch ksm-fix-the-comment-of-try_to_unmap_one.patch mm-munlock-use-mapcount-to-avoid-terrible-overhead.patch mm-munlock-use-mapcount-to-avoid-terrible-overhead-fix.patch prio_tree-debugging-patch.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