mm: soft-offline: close the race against page allocation

A process can be killed with SIGBUS(BUS_MCEERR_AR) when it tries to
allocate a page that was just freed on the way of soft-offline.  This is
undesirable because soft-offline (which is about corrected error) is
less aggressive than hard-offline (which is about uncorrected error),
and we can make soft-offline fail and keep using the page for good
reason like "system is busy."

Two main changes of this patch are:

- setting migrate type of the target page to MIGRATE_ISOLATE. As done
  in free_unref_page_commit(), this makes kernel bypass pcplist when
  freeing the page. So we can assume that the page is in freelist just
  after put_page() returns,

- setting PG_hwpoison on free page under zone->lock which protects
  freelists, so this allows us to avoid setting PG_hwpoison on a page
  that is decided to be allocated soon.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page() comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1531452366-11661-3-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Reported-by: Xishi Qiu <xishi.qiuxishi@alibaba-inc.com>
Tested-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: <zy.zhengyi@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 49dc32c61137..192d0bbfc9ea 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
 #include <linux/mm_inline.h>
 #include <linux/kfifo.h>
 #include <linux/ratelimit.h>
+#include <linux/page-isolation.h>
 #include "internal.h"
 #include "ras/ras_event.h"
 
@@ -1697,6 +1698,7 @@ static int __soft_offline_page(struct page *page, int flags)
 static int soft_offline_in_use_page(struct page *page, int flags)
 {
 	int ret;
+	int mt;
 	struct page *hpage = compound_head(page);
 
 	if (!PageHuge(page) && PageTransHuge(hpage)) {
@@ -1715,23 +1717,37 @@ static int soft_offline_in_use_page(struct page *page, int flags)
 		put_hwpoison_page(hpage);
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Setting MIGRATE_ISOLATE here ensures that the page will be linked
+	 * to free list immediately (not via pcplist) when released after
+	 * successful page migration. Otherwise we can't guarantee that the
+	 * page is really free after put_page() returns, so
+	 * set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page() highly likely fails.
+	 */
+	mt = get_pageblock_migratetype(page);
+	set_pageblock_migratetype(page, MIGRATE_ISOLATE);
 	if (PageHuge(page))
 		ret = soft_offline_huge_page(page, flags);
 	else
 		ret = __soft_offline_page(page, flags);
-
+	set_pageblock_migratetype(page, mt);
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static void soft_offline_free_page(struct page *page)
+static int soft_offline_free_page(struct page *page)
 {
 	int rc = 0;
 	struct page *head = compound_head(page);
 
 	if (PageHuge(head))
 		rc = dissolve_free_huge_page(page);
-	if (!rc && !TestSetPageHWPoison(page))
-		num_poisoned_pages_inc();
+	if (!rc) {
+		if (set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page(page))
+			num_poisoned_pages_inc();
+		else
+			rc = -EBUSY;
+	}
+	return rc;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -1775,7 +1791,7 @@ int soft_offline_page(struct page *page, int flags)
 	if (ret > 0)
 		ret = soft_offline_in_use_page(page, flags);
 	else if (ret == 0)
-		soft_offline_free_page(page);
+		ret = soft_offline_free_page(page);
 
 	return ret;
 }