The patch titled Subject: khugepaged: adjust VM_BUG_ON_MM() in __khugepaged_enter() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is khugepaged-adjust-vm_bug_on_mm-in-__khugepaged_enter.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/khugepaged-adjust-vm_bug_on_mm-in-__khugepaged_enter.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/khugepaged-adjust-vm_bug_on_mm-in-__khugepaged_enter.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: khugepaged: adjust VM_BUG_ON_MM() in __khugepaged_enter() syzbot crashes on the VM_BUG_ON_MM(khugepaged_test_exit(mm), mm) in __khugepaged_enter(): yes, when one thread is about to dump core, has set core_state, and is waiting for others, another might do something calling __khugepaged_enter(), which now crashes because I lumped the core_state test (known as "mmget_still_valid") into khugepaged_test_exit(). I still think it's best to lump them together, so just in this exceptional case, check mm->mm_users directly instead of khugepaged_test_exit(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.2008141503370.18085@eggly.anvils Fixes: bbe98f9cadff ("khugepaged: khugepaged_test_exit() check mmget_still_valid()") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [4.8+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/khugepaged.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/khugepaged.c~khugepaged-adjust-vm_bug_on_mm-in-__khugepaged_enter +++ a/mm/khugepaged.c @@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ int __khugepaged_enter(struct mm_struct return -ENOMEM; /* __khugepaged_exit() must not run from under us */ - VM_BUG_ON_MM(khugepaged_test_exit(mm), mm); + VM_BUG_ON_MM(atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 0, mm); if (unlikely(test_and_set_bit(MMF_VM_HUGEPAGE, &mm->flags))) { free_mm_slot(mm_slot); return 0; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hughd@xxxxxxxxxx are dma-debug-fix-debug_dma_assert_idle-use-rcu_read_lock.patch khugepaged-adjust-vm_bug_on_mm-in-__khugepaged_enter.patch