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authorMuchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>2021-02-05 05:32:06 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-02-05 22:03:47 +0300
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mm: hugetlb: fix a race between freeing and dissolving the page
There is a race condition between __free_huge_page() and dissolve_free_huge_page(). CPU0: CPU1: // page_count(page) == 1 put_page(page) __free_huge_page(page) dissolve_free_huge_page(page) spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock) // PageHuge(page) && !page_count(page) update_and_free_page(page) // page is freed to the buddy spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock) spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock) clear_page_huge_active(page) enqueue_huge_page(page) // It is wrong, the page is already freed spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock) The race window is between put_page() and dissolve_free_huge_page(). We should make sure that the page is already on the free list when it is dissolved. As a result __free_huge_page would corrupt page(s) already in the buddy allocator. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210115124942.46403-4-songmuchun@bytedance.com Fixes: c8721bbbdd36 ("mm: memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage") Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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