From 1d798ca3f16437c71ff63e36597ff07f9c12e4d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 16:29:54 -0800 Subject: mm: make compound_head() robust Hugh has pointed that compound_head() call can be unsafe in some context. There's one example: CPU0 CPU1 isolate_migratepages_block() page_count() compound_head() !!PageTail() == true put_page() tail->first_page = NULL head = tail->first_page alloc_pages(__GFP_COMP) prep_compound_page() tail->first_page = head __SetPageTail(p); !!PageTail() == true The race is pure theoretical. I don't it's possible to trigger it in practice. But who knows. We can fix the race by changing how encode PageTail() and compound_head() within struct page to be able to update them in one shot. The patch introduces page->compound_head into third double word block in front of compound_dtor and compound_order. Bit 0 encodes PageTail() and the rest bits are pointer to head page if bit zero is set. The patch moves page->pmd_huge_pte out of word, just in case if an architecture defines pgtable_t into something what can have the bit 0 set. hugetlb_cgroup uses page->lru.next in the second tail page to store pointer struct hugetlb_cgroup. The patch switch it to use page->private in the second tail page instead. The space is free since ->first_page is removed from the union. The patch also opens possibility to remove HUGETLB_CGROUP_MIN_ORDER limitation, since there's now space in first tail page to store struct hugetlb_cgroup pointer. But that's out of scope of the patch. That means page->compound_head shares storage space with: - page->lru.next; - page->next; - page->rcu_head.next; That's too long list to be absolutely sure, but looks like nobody uses bit 0 of the word. page->rcu_head.next guaranteed[1] to have bit 0 clean as long as we use call_rcu(), call_rcu_bh(), call_rcu_sched(), or call_srcu(). But future call_rcu_lazy() is not allowed as it makes use of the bit and we can get false positive PageTail(). [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20150827163634.GD4029@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Acked-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/debug.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/debug.c') diff --git a/mm/debug.c b/mm/debug.c index e784110fb51d..668aa35191ca 100644 --- a/mm/debug.c +++ b/mm/debug.c @@ -25,12 +25,7 @@ static const struct trace_print_flags pageflag_names[] = { {1UL << PG_private, "private" }, {1UL << PG_private_2, "private_2" }, {1UL << PG_writeback, "writeback" }, -#ifdef CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED {1UL << PG_head, "head" }, - {1UL << PG_tail, "tail" }, -#else - {1UL << PG_compound, "compound" }, -#endif {1UL << PG_swapcache, "swapcache" }, {1UL << PG_mappedtodisk, "mappedtodisk" }, {1UL << PG_reclaim, "reclaim" }, -- cgit v1.2.3