There have been elusive reports of filemap_fault() hitting its
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_to_pgoff(page) != offset, page) on kernels built
with CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS=y.
Suren has hit it on a kernel with CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS=y and
CONFIG_NUMA is not set: and he has analyzed it down to how khugepaged
without NUMA reuses the same huge page after collapse_file() failed
(whereas NUMA targets its allocation to the respective node each time).
And most of us were usually testing with CONFIG_NUMA=y kernels.
collapse_file(old start)
new_page = khugepaged_alloc_page(hpage)
__SetPageLocked(new_page)
new_page->index = start // hpage->index=old offset
new_page->mapping = mapping
xas_store(&xas, new_page)
filemap_fault
page = find_get_page(mapping, offset)
// if offset falls inside hpage then
// compound_head(page) == hpage
lock_page_maybe_drop_mmap()
__lock_page(page)
// collapse fails
xas_store(&xas, old page)
new_page->mapping = NULL
unlock_page(new_page)
collapse_file(new start)
new_page = khugepaged_alloc_page(hpage)
__SetPageLocked(new_page)
new_page->index = start // hpage->index=new offset
new_page->mapping = mapping // mapping becomes valid again
// since compound_head(page) == hpage
// page_to_pgoff(page) got changed
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_to_pgoff(page) != offset)
An initial patch replaced __SetPageLocked() by lock_page(), which did
fix the race which Suren illustrates above. But testing showed that it's
not good enough: if the racing task's __lock_page() gets delayed long
after its find_get_page(), then it may follow collapse_file(new start)'s
successful final unlock_page(), and crash on the same VM_BUG_ON_PAGE.
It could be fixed by relaxing filemap_fault()'s VM_BUG_ON_PAGE to a
check and retry (as is done for mapping), with similar relaxations in
find_lock_entry() and pagecache_get_page(): but it's not obvious what
else might get caught out; and khugepaged non-NUMA appears to be unique
in exposing a page to page cache, then revoking, without going through
a full cycle of freeing before reuse.
Instead, non-NUMA khugepaged_prealloc_page() release the old page
if anyone else has a reference to it (1% of cases when I tested).
Although never reported on huge tmpfs, I believe its find_lock_entry()
has been at similar risk; but huge tmpfs does not rely on khugepaged
for its normal working nearly so much as READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS does.
Reported-by: Denis Lisov <dennis.lissov@gmail.com>
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206569
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/?q=20200219144635.3b7417145de19b65f258c943%40linux-foundation.org
Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/?q=20200616013309.GB815%40lca.pw
Reported-and-analyzed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Fixes: 87c460a0bd ("mm/khugepaged: collapse_shmem() without freezing new_page")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.9+
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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