Re: [PATCH v6 4/5] mm: hugetlb: fix a race between isolating and freeing page

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On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 08:49:41PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> There is a race between isolate_huge_page() and __free_huge_page().
> 
> CPU0:                                       CPU1:
> 
> if (PageHuge(page))
>                                             put_page(page)
>                                               __free_huge_page(page)
>                                                   spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock)
>                                                   update_and_free_page(page)
>                                                     set_compound_page_dtor(page,
>                                                       NULL_COMPOUND_DTOR)
>                                                   spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock)
>   isolate_huge_page(page)
>     // trigger BUG_ON
>     VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHead(page), page)
>     spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock)
>     page_huge_active(page)
>       // trigger BUG_ON
>       VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHuge(page), page)
>     spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock)
> 
> When we isolate a HugeTLB page on CPU0. Meanwhile, we free it to the
> buddy allocator on CPU1. Then, we can trigger a BUG_ON on CPU0. Because
> it is already freed to the buddy allocator.
> 
> Fixes: c8721bbbdd36 ("mm: memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage")
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>

-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3



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