This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mm/huge_memory: do not overkill when splitting huge_zero_page to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mm-huge_memory-do-not-overkill-when-splitting-huge_zero_page.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 478d134e9506c7e9bfe2830ed03dd85e97966313 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xu Yu <xuyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:14:43 -0700 Subject: mm/huge_memory: do not overkill when splitting huge_zero_page From: Xu Yu <xuyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 478d134e9506c7e9bfe2830ed03dd85e97966313 upstream. Kernel panic when injecting memory_failure for the global huge_zero_page, when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is enabled, as follows. Injecting memory failure for pfn 0x109ff9 at process virtual address 0x20ff9000 page:00000000fb053fc3 refcount:2 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x109e00 head:00000000fb053fc3 order:9 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0 flags: 0x17fffc000010001(locked|head|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1ffff) raw: 017fffc000010001 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 0000000000000000 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000002ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(is_huge_zero_page(head)) ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at mm/huge_memory.c:2499! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI CPU: 6 PID: 553 Comm: split_bug Not tainted 5.18.0-rc1+ #11 Hardware name: Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud ECS, BIOS 3288b3c 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:split_huge_page_to_list+0x66a/0x880 Code: 84 9b fb ff ff 48 8b 7c 24 08 31 f6 e8 9f 5d 2a 00 b8 b8 02 00 00 e9 e8 fb ff ff 48 c7 c6 e8 47 3c 82 4c b RSP: 0018:ffffc90000dcbdf8 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 000000000000003c RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff823e4c4f RDI: 00000000ffffffff RBP: ffff88843fffdb40 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00000000fffeffff R10: ffffc90000dcbc48 R11: ffffffff82d68448 R12: ffffea0004278000 R13: ffffffff823c6203 R14: 0000000000109ff9 R15: ffffea000427fe40 FS: 00007fc375a26740(0000) GS:ffff88842fd80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007fc3757c9290 CR3: 0000000102174006 CR4: 00000000003706e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: try_to_split_thp_page+0x3a/0x130 memory_failure+0x128/0x800 madvise_inject_error.cold+0x8b/0xa1 __x64_sys_madvise+0x54/0x60 do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae RIP: 0033:0x7fc3754f8bf9 Code: 01 00 48 81 c4 80 00 00 00 e9 f1 fe ff ff 0f 1f 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 8 RSP: 002b:00007ffeda93a1d8 EFLAGS: 00000217 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000001c RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007fc3754f8bf9 RDX: 0000000000000064 RSI: 0000000000003000 RDI: 0000000020ff9000 RBP: 00007ffeda93a200 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 00000000ffffffff R11: 0000000000000217 R12: 0000000000400490 R13: 00007ffeda93a2e0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 We think that raising BUG is overkilling for splitting huge_zero_page, the huge_zero_page can't be met from normal paths other than memory failure, but memory failure is a valid caller. So we tend to replace the BUG to WARN + returning -EBUSY, and thus the panic above won't happen again. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f35f8b97377d5d3ede1bc5ac3114da888c57cbce.1651052574.git.xuyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: d173d5417fb6 ("mm/memory-failure.c: skip huge_zero_page in memory_failure()") Fixes: 6a46079cf57a ("HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7") Signed-off-by: Xu Yu <xuyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/huge_memory.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -2617,11 +2617,16 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page struct address_space *mapping = NULL; int extra_pins, ret; pgoff_t end; + bool is_hzp; - VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(is_huge_zero_page(head), head); VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(head), head); VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageCompound(head), head); + is_hzp = is_huge_zero_page(head); + VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_PAGE(is_hzp, head); + if (is_hzp) + return -EBUSY; + if (PageWriteback(head)) return -EBUSY; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from xuyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.15/mm-huge_memory-do-not-overkill-when-splitting-huge_zero_page.patch queue-5.15/revert-mm-memory-failure.c-skip-huge_zero_page-in-memory_failure.patch