tree 1eb1db0166198b988983e6b59755ced828ad47fe
parent 88a9ab6e3dfb5b10168130c255c6102c925343ab
author Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> 1396910216 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1396913750 -0700

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>