On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 02:43:47PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> This is the backport for 4.4-stable.
>
> We had a race in the old balloon compaction code before commit b1123ea6d3b3
> ("mm: balloon: use general non-lru movable page feature") refactored it
> that became visible after backporting commit 195a8c43e93d
> ("virtio-balloon: deflate via a page list") without the refactoring.
>
> The bug existed from commit d6d86c0a7f8d ("mm/balloon_compaction: redesign
> ballooned pages management") till commit b1123ea6d3b3 ("mm: balloon: use
> general non-lru movable page feature"). commit d6d86c0a7f8d
> ("mm/balloon_compaction: redesign ballooned pages management") was
> backported to 3.12, so the broken kernels are stable kernels [3.12 - 4.7].
>
> There was a subtle race between dropping the page lock of the newpage
> in __unmap_and_move() and checking for
> __is_movable_balloon_page(newpage).
>
> Just after dropping this page lock, virtio-balloon could go ahead and
> deflate the newpage, effectively dequeueing it and clearing PageBalloon,
> in turn making __is_movable_balloon_page(newpage) fail.
>
> This resulted in dropping the reference of the newpage via
> putback_lru_page(newpage) instead of put_page(newpage), leading to
> page->lru getting modified and a !LRU page ending up in the LRU lists.
> With commit 195a8c43e93d ("virtio-balloon: deflate via a page list")
> backported, one would suddenly get corrupted lists in
> release_pages_balloon():
> - WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 6586 at lib/list_debug.c:59 __list_del_entry+0xa1/0xd0
> - list_del corruption. prev->next should be ffffe253961090a0, but was dead000000000100
>
> Nowadays this race is no longer possible, but it is hidden behind very
> ugly handling of __ClearPageMovable() and __PageMovable().
>
> __ClearPageMovable() will not make __PageMovable() fail, only
> PageMovable(). So the new check (__PageMovable(newpage)) will still hold
> even after newpage was dequeued by virtio-balloon.
>
> If anybody would ever change that special handling, the BUG would be
> introduced again. So instead, make it explicit and use the information
> of the original isolated page before migration.
>
> This patch can be backported fairly easy to stable kernels (in contrast
> to the refactoring).
>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vratislav Bendel <vbendel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <k.khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 3.12 - 4.7
> Fixes: d6d86c0a7f8d ("mm/balloon_compaction: redesign ballooned pages management")
> Reported-by: Vratislav Bendel <vbendel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/migrate.c | 7 ++++++-
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
What is the git commit id of this patch in Linus's tree?
thanks,
greg k-h
