linux/mm
Kirill A. Shutemov b5a8cad376 thp: close race between split and zap huge pages
Sasha Levin has reported two THP BUGs[1][2].  I believe both of them
have the same root cause.  Let's look to them one by one.

The first bug[1] is "kernel BUG at mm/huge_memory.c:1829!".  It's
BUG_ON(mapcount != page_mapcount(page)) in __split_huge_page().  From my
testing I see that page_mapcount() is higher than mapcount here.

I think it happens due to race between zap_huge_pmd() and
page_check_address_pmd().  page_check_address_pmd() misses PMD which is
under zap:

	CPU0						CPU1
						zap_huge_pmd()
						  pmdp_get_and_clear()
__split_huge_page()
  anon_vma_interval_tree_foreach()
    __split_huge_page_splitting()
      page_check_address_pmd()
        mm_find_pmd()
	  /*
	   * We check if PMD present without taking ptl: no
	   * serialization against zap_huge_pmd(). We miss this PMD,
	   * it's not accounted to 'mapcount' in __split_huge_page().
	   */
	  pmd_present(pmd) == 0

  BUG_ON(mapcount != page_mapcount(page)) // CRASH!!!

						  page_remove_rmap(page)
						    atomic_add_negative(-1, &page->_mapcount)

The second bug[2] is "kernel BUG at mm/huge_memory.c:1371!".
It's VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHead(page), page) in zap_huge_pmd().

This happens in similar way:

	CPU0						CPU1
						zap_huge_pmd()
						  pmdp_get_and_clear()
						  page_remove_rmap(page)
						    atomic_add_negative(-1, &page->_mapcount)
__split_huge_page()
  anon_vma_interval_tree_foreach()
    __split_huge_page_splitting()
      page_check_address_pmd()
        mm_find_pmd()
	  pmd_present(pmd) == 0	/* The same comment as above */
  /*
   * No crash this time since we already decremented page->_mapcount in
   * zap_huge_pmd().
   */
  BUG_ON(mapcount != page_mapcount(page))

  /*
   * We split the compound page here into small pages without
   * serialization against zap_huge_pmd()
   */
  __split_huge_page_refcount()
						VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHead(page), page); // CRASH!!!

So my understanding the problem is pmd_present() check in mm_find_pmd()
without taking page table lock.

The bug was introduced by me commit with commit 117b0791ac. Sorry for
that. :(

Let's open code mm_find_pmd() in page_check_address_pmd() and do the
check under page table lock.

Note that __page_check_address() does the same for PTE entires
if sync != 0.

I've stress tested split and zap code paths for 36+ hours by now and
don't see crashes with the patch applied. Before it took <20 min to
trigger the first bug and few hours for second one (if we ignore
first).

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/g/<53440991.9090001@oracle.com>
[2] https://lkml.kernel.org/g/<5310C56C.60709@oracle.com>

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[3.13+]

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-18 16:40:09 -07:00
..
backing-dev.c
balloon_compaction.c
bootmem.c
bounce.c
cleancache.c
compaction.c mm, compaction: determine isolation mode only once 2014-04-07 16:35:55 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c
early_ioremap.c mm: create generic early_ioremap() support 2014-04-07 16:36:15 -07:00
fadvise.c
failslab.c
filemap.c mm: fix new kernel-doc warning in filemap.c 2014-04-18 16:40:09 -07:00
filemap_xip.c
fremap.c
frontswap.c
highmem.c
huge_memory.c thp: close race between split and zap huge pages 2014-04-18 16:40:09 -07:00
hugetlb.c mm/hugetlb.c: add cond_resched_lock() in return_unused_surplus_pages() 2014-04-18 16:40:08 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c
hwpoison-inject.c
init-mm.c
internal.h mm/readahead.c: inline ra_submit 2014-04-07 16:35:58 -07:00
interval_tree.c
iov_iter.c
Kconfig mm: create generic early_ioremap() support 2014-04-07 16:36:15 -07:00
Kconfig.debug
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c
ksm.c
list_lru.c
maccess.c
madvise.c
Makefile Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-04-12 14:49:50 -07:00
memblock.c mm/memblock.c: use PFN_PHYS() 2014-04-07 16:35:58 -07:00
memcontrol.c memcg, slab: do not destroy children caches if parent has aliases 2014-04-07 16:36:13 -07:00
memory-failure.c
memory.c mm: remove unused arg of set_page_dirty_balance() 2014-04-07 16:35:57 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c
mempolicy.c mm, mempolicy: remove per-process flag 2014-04-07 16:35:54 -07:00
mempool.c mempool: add unlikely and likely hints 2014-04-07 16:35:55 -07:00
migrate.c
mincore.c
mlock.c mm: try_to_unmap_cluster() should lock_page() before mlocking 2014-04-07 16:35:57 -07:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c mm: per-thread vma caching 2014-04-07 16:35:53 -07:00
mmu_context.c
mmu_notifier.c
mmzone.c
mprotect.c mm: move mmu notifier call from change_protection to change_pmd_range 2014-04-07 16:35:50 -07:00
mremap.c
msync.c
nobootmem.c
nommu.c mm: fix 'ERROR: do not initialise globals to 0 or NULL' and coding style 2014-04-07 16:35:55 -07:00
oom_kill.c
page-writeback.c mm: remove unused arg of set_page_dirty_balance() 2014-04-07 16:35:57 -07:00
page_alloc.c mm/page_alloc.c: change mm debug routines back to EXPORT_SYMBOL 2014-04-07 16:35:59 -07:00
page_cgroup.c
page_io.c
page_isolation.c
pagewalk.c
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c
pgtable-generic.c
process_vm_access.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-04-12 14:49:50 -07:00
quicklist.c
readahead.c mm/readahead.c: inline ra_submit 2014-04-07 16:35:58 -07:00
rmap.c mm: try_to_unmap_cluster() should lock_page() before mlocking 2014-04-07 16:35:57 -07:00
shmem.c mm: Initialize error in shmem_file_aio_read() 2014-04-13 14:10:26 -07:00
slab.c Merge branch 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux 2014-04-13 13:28:13 -07:00
slab.h memcg, slab: never try to merge memcg caches 2014-04-07 16:36:12 -07:00
slab_common.c memcg, slab: do not destroy children caches if parent has aliases 2014-04-07 16:36:13 -07:00
slob.c mm: slab/slub: use page->list consistently instead of page->lru 2014-04-11 10:06:06 +03:00
slub.c Merge branch 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux 2014-04-13 13:28:13 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c
sparse.c mm: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...)) 2014-04-07 16:35:54 -07:00
swap.c
swap_state.c
swapfile.c
truncate.c
util.c Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit 2014-04-12 12:38:53 -07:00
vmacache.c mm: per-thread vma caching 2014-04-07 16:35:53 -07:00
vmalloc.c mm/vmalloc.c: enhance vm_map_ram() comment 2014-04-07 16:35:55 -07:00
vmpressure.c
vmscan.c vmscan: reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() must use mod_zone_page_state() 2014-04-18 16:40:07 -07:00
vmstat.c CPU hotplug notifiers registration fixes for 3.15-rc1 2014-04-07 14:55:46 -07:00
workingset.c
zbud.c
zsmalloc.c
zswap.c Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew) 2014-04-07 16:38:06 -07:00