mm: numa: recheck for transhuge pages under lock during protection changes
Sasha reported the following bug using trinity
kernel BUG at mm/mprotect.c:149!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Dumping ftrace buffer:
(ftrace buffer empty)
Modules linked in:
CPU: 20 PID: 26219 Comm: trinity-c216 Tainted: G W 3.14.0-rc5-next-20140305-sasha-00011-ge06f5f3-dirty #105
task: ffff8800b6c80000 ti: ffff880228436000 task.ti: ffff880228436000
RIP: change_protection_range+0x3b3/0x500
Call Trace:
change_protection+0x25/0x30
change_prot_numa+0x1b/0x30
task_numa_work+0x279/0x360
task_work_run+0xae/0xf0
do_notify_resume+0x8e/0xe0
retint_signal+0x4d/0x92
The VM_BUG_ON was added in -mm by the patch "mm,numa: reorganize
change_pmd_range". The race existed without the patch but was just
harder to hit.
The problem is that a transhuge check is made without holding the PTL.
It's possible at the time of the check that a parallel fault clears the
pmd and inserts a new one which then triggers the VM_BUG_ON check. This
patch removes the VM_BUG_ON but fixes the race by rechecking transhuge
under the PTL when marking page tables for NUMA hinting and bailing if a
race occurred. It is not a problem for calls to mprotect() as they hold
mmap_sem for write.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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