In balloon_page_dequeue, pages_lock should cover the loop (ie, list_for_each_entry_safe). Otherwise, the cursor page could be isolated by compaction and then list_del by isolation could poison the page->lru.{prev,next} so the loop finally could access wrong address like this. This patch fixes the bug. general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP Dumping ftrace buffer: (ftrace buffer empty) Modules linked in: CPU: 2 PID: 82 Comm: vballoon Not tainted 4.4.0-rc5-mm1-access_bit+ #1906 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 task: ffff8800a7ff0000 ti: ffff8800a7fec000 task.ti: ffff8800a7fec000 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8115e754>] [<ffffffff8115e754>] balloon_page_dequeue+0x54/0x130 RSP: 0018:ffff8800a7fefdc0 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: ffff88013fff9a70 RBX: ffffea000056fe00 RCX: 0000000000002b7d RDX: ffff88013fff9a70 RSI: ffffea000056fe00 RDI: ffff88013fff9a68 RBP: ffff8800a7fefde8 R08: ffffea000056fda0 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: ffff8800a7fefd90 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: dead0000000000e0 R13: ffffea000056fe20 R14: ffff880138809070 R15: ffff880138809060 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88013fc40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 00007f229c10e000 CR3: 00000000b8b53000 CR4: 00000000000006a0 Stack: 0000000000000100 ffff880138809088 ffff880138809000 ffff880138809060 0000000000000046 ffff8800a7fefe28 ffffffff812c86d3 ffff880138809020 ffff880138809000 fffffffffff91900 0000000000000100 ffff880138809060 Call Trace: [<ffffffff812c86d3>] leak_balloon+0x93/0x1a0 [<ffffffff812c8bc7>] balloon+0x217/0x2a0 [<ffffffff8143739e>] ? __schedule+0x31e/0x8b0 [<ffffffff81078160>] ? abort_exclusive_wait+0xb0/0xb0 [<ffffffff812c89b0>] ? update_balloon_stats+0xf0/0xf0 [<ffffffff8105b6e9>] kthread+0xc9/0xe0 [<ffffffff8105b620>] ? kthread_park+0x60/0x60 [<ffffffff8143b4af>] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70 [<ffffffff8105b620>] ? kthread_park+0x60/0x60 Code: 8d 60 e0 0f 84 af 00 00 00 48 8b 43 20 a8 01 75 3b 48 89 d8 f0 0f ba 28 00 72 10 48 8b 03 f6 c4 08 75 2f 48 89 df e8 8c 83 f9 ff <49> 8b 44 24 20 4d 8d 6c 24 20 48 83 e8 20 4d 39 f5 74 7a 4c 89 RIP [<ffffffff8115e754>] balloon_page_dequeue+0x54/0x130 RSP <ffff8800a7fefdc0> ---[ end trace 43cf28060d708d5f ]--- Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception Dumping ftrace buffer: (ftrace buffer empty) Kernel Offset: disabled Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/balloon_compaction.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/balloon_compaction.c b/mm/balloon_compaction.c index d3116be5a00f..300117f1a08f 100644 --- a/mm/balloon_compaction.c +++ b/mm/balloon_compaction.c @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ struct page *balloon_page_dequeue(struct balloon_dev_info *b_dev_info) bool dequeued_page; dequeued_page = false; + spin_lock_irqsave(&b_dev_info->pages_lock, flags); list_for_each_entry_safe(page, tmp, &b_dev_info->pages, lru) { /* * Block others from accessing the 'page' while we get around @@ -75,15 +76,14 @@ struct page *balloon_page_dequeue(struct balloon_dev_info *b_dev_info) continue; } #endif - spin_lock_irqsave(&b_dev_info->pages_lock, flags); balloon_page_delete(page); __count_vm_event(BALLOON_DEFLATE); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&b_dev_info->pages_lock, flags); unlock_page(page); dequeued_page = true; break; } } + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&b_dev_info->pages_lock, flags); if (!dequeued_page) { /* -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html