This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mm/list_lru.c: fix list_lru_count_node() to be race free to the 4.12-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-list_lru.c-fix-list_lru_count_node-to-be-race-free.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 2c80cd57c74339889a8752b20862a16c28929c3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sahitya Tummala <stummala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 15:49:57 -0700 Subject: mm/list_lru.c: fix list_lru_count_node() to be race free From: Sahitya Tummala <stummala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 2c80cd57c74339889a8752b20862a16c28929c3a upstream. list_lru_count_node() iterates over all memcgs to get the total number of entries on the node but it can race with memcg_drain_all_list_lrus(), which migrates the entries from a dead cgroup to another. This can return incorrect number of entries from list_lru_count_node(). Fix this by keeping track of entries per node and simply return it in list_lru_count_node(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498707555-30525-1-git-send-email-stummala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sahitya Tummala <stummala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Polakov <apolyakov@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/list_lru.h | 1 + mm/list_lru.c | 14 ++++++-------- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/list_lru.h +++ b/include/linux/list_lru.h @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ struct list_lru_node { /* for cgroup aware lrus points to per cgroup lists, otherwise NULL */ struct list_lru_memcg *memcg_lrus; #endif + long nr_items; } ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp; struct list_lru { --- a/mm/list_lru.c +++ b/mm/list_lru.c @@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ bool list_lru_add(struct list_lru *lru, l = list_lru_from_kmem(nlru, item); list_add_tail(item, &l->list); l->nr_items++; + nlru->nr_items++; spin_unlock(&nlru->lock); return true; } @@ -136,6 +137,7 @@ bool list_lru_del(struct list_lru *lru, l = list_lru_from_kmem(nlru, item); list_del_init(item); l->nr_items--; + nlru->nr_items--; spin_unlock(&nlru->lock); return true; } @@ -183,15 +185,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(list_lru_count_one); unsigned long list_lru_count_node(struct list_lru *lru, int nid) { - long count = 0; - int memcg_idx; + struct list_lru_node *nlru; - count += __list_lru_count_one(lru, nid, -1); - if (list_lru_memcg_aware(lru)) { - for_each_memcg_cache_index(memcg_idx) - count += __list_lru_count_one(lru, nid, memcg_idx); - } - return count; + nlru = &lru->node[nid]; + return nlru->nr_items; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(list_lru_count_node); @@ -226,6 +223,7 @@ restart: assert_spin_locked(&nlru->lock); case LRU_REMOVED: isolated++; + nlru->nr_items--; /* * If the lru lock has been dropped, our list * traversal is now invalid and so we have to Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from stummala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.12/mm-list_lru.c-fix-list_lru_count_node-to-be-race-free.patch queue-4.12/fs-dcache.c-fix-spin-lockup-issue-on-nlru-lock.patch