Hmm, I do not see this neither in linux-mm nor LKML. Strange
On Wed 23-08-17 14:41:21, Andrew Morton wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: mm/madvise.c: fix freeing of locked page with MADV_FREE
>
> If madvise(..., MADV_FREE) split a transparent hugepage, it called
> put_page() before unlock_page(). This was wrong because put_page() can
> free the page, e.g. if a concurrent madvise(..., MADV_DONTNEED) has
> removed it from the memory mapping. put_page() then rightfully complained
> about freeing a locked page.
>
> Fix this by moving the unlock_page() before put_page().
>
> This bug was found by syzkaller, which encountered the following splat:
>
> BUG: Bad page state in process syzkaller412798 pfn:1bd800
> page:ffffea0006f60000 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping: (null) index:0x20a00
> flags: 0x200000000040019(locked|uptodate|dirty|swapbacked)
> raw: 0200000000040019 0000000000000000 0000000000020a00 00000000ffffffff
> raw: ffffea0006f60020 ffffea0006f60020 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
> page dumped because: PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE flag(s) set
> bad because of flags: 0x1(locked)
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 1 PID: 3037 Comm: syzkaller412798 Not tainted 4.13.0-rc5+ #35
> Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
> Call Trace:
> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:16 [inline]
> dump_stack+0x194/0x257 lib/dump_stack.c:52
> bad_page+0x230/0x2b0 mm/page_alloc.c:565
> free_pages_check_bad+0x1f0/0x2e0 mm/page_alloc.c:943
> free_pages_check mm/page_alloc.c:952 [inline]
> free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1043 [inline]
> free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1068 [inline]
> free_hot_cold_page+0x8cf/0x12b0 mm/page_alloc.c:2584
> __put_single_page mm/swap.c:79 [inline]
> __put_page+0xfb/0x160 mm/swap.c:113
> put_page include/linux/mm.h:814 [inline]
> madvise_free_pte_range+0x137a/0x1ec0 mm/madvise.c:371
> walk_pmd_range mm/pagewalk.c:50 [inline]
> walk_pud_range mm/pagewalk.c:108 [inline]
> walk_p4d_range mm/pagewalk.c:134 [inline]
> walk_pgd_range mm/pagewalk.c:160 [inline]
> __walk_page_range+0xc3a/0x1450 mm/pagewalk.c:249
> walk_page_range+0x200/0x470 mm/pagewalk.c:326
> madvise_free_page_range.isra.9+0x17d/0x230 mm/madvise.c:444
> madvise_free_single_vma+0x353/0x580 mm/madvise.c:471
> madvise_dontneed_free mm/madvise.c:555 [inline]
> madvise_vma mm/madvise.c:664 [inline]
> SYSC_madvise mm/madvise.c:832 [inline]
> SyS_madvise+0x7d3/0x13c0 mm/madvise.c:760
> entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbe
>
> Here is a C reproducer:
>
> #define _GNU_SOURCE
> #include <pthread.h>
> #include <sys/mman.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
>
> #define MADV_FREE 8
> #define PAGE_SIZE 4096
>
> static void *mapping;
> static const size_t mapping_size = 0x1000000;
>
> static void *madvise_thrproc(void *arg)
> {
> madvise(mapping, mapping_size, (long)arg);
> }
>
> int main(void)
> {
> pthread_t t[2];
>
> for (;;) {
> mapping = mmap(NULL, mapping_size, PROT_WRITE,
> MAP_POPULATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);
>
> munmap(mapping + mapping_size / 2, PAGE_SIZE);
>
> pthread_create(&t[0], 0, madvise_thrproc, (void*)MADV_DONTNEED);
> pthread_create(&t[1], 0, madvise_thrproc, (void*)MADV_FREE);
> pthread_join(t[0], NULL);
> pthread_join(t[1], NULL);
> munmap(mapping, mapping_size);
> }
> }
>
> Note: to see the splat, CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=y and
> CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y are needed.
>
> Google Bug Id: 64696096
Is this necessary in the changelog?
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170823205235.132061-1-ebiggers3@xxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 854e9ed09ded ("mm: support madvise(MADV_FREE)")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [v4.5+]
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> mm/madvise.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff -puN mm/madvise.c~mm-madvise-fix-freeing-of-locked-page-with-madv_free mm/madvise.c
> --- a/mm/madvise.c~mm-madvise-fix-freeing-of-locked-page-with-madv_free
> +++ a/mm/madvise.c
> @@ -368,8 +368,8 @@ static int madvise_free_pte_range(pmd_t
> pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
> goto out;
> }
> - put_page(page);
> unlock_page(page);
> + put_page(page);
> pte = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
> pte--;
> addr -= PAGE_SIZE;
> _
>
> Patches currently in -mm which might be from ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx are
>
> mm-madvise-fix-freeing-of-locked-page-with-madv_free.patch
>
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs