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author | Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> | 2021-02-05 05:32:06 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-02-05 22:03:47 +0300 |
commit | 7ffddd499ba6122b1a07828f023d1d67629aa017 (patch) | |
tree | 629b17ceeccf9ae942736892344c9b8762f4b39a /tools/perf/scripts/python/export-to-postgresql.py | |
parent | 585fc0d2871c9318c949fbf45b1f081edd489e96 (diff) | |
download | linux-7ffddd499ba6122b1a07828f023d1d67629aa017.tar.xz |
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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