tree c5e41d95db2cb8739b79d618308285c2db7ecbe0
parent 06bb7d1c5ff29ca40534d81510e1288058550a1b
author Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> 1612492351 -0800
committer Bharath <bharath@fairphone.com> 1643261309 +0530

mm: thp: fix MADV_REMOVE deadlock on shmem THP

commit 1c2f67308af4c102b4e1e6cd6f69819ae59408e0 upstream.

Sergey reported deadlock between kswapd correctly doing its usual
lock_page(page) followed by down_read(page->mapping->i_mmap_rwsem), and
madvise(MADV_REMOVE) on an madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) area doing
down_write(page->mapping->i_mmap_rwsem) followed by lock_page(page).

This happened when shmem_fallocate(punch hole)'s unmap_mapping_range()
reaches zap_pmd_range()'s call to __split_huge_pmd().  The same deadlock
could occur when partially truncating a mapped huge tmpfs file, or using
fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) on it.

__split_huge_pmd()'s page lock was added in 5.8, to make sure that any
concurrent use of reuse_swap_page() (holding page lock) could not catch
the anon THP's mapcounts and swapcounts while they were being split.

Fortunately, reuse_swap_page() is never applied to a shmem or file THP
(not even by khugepaged, which checks PageSwapCache before calling), and
anonymous THPs are never created in shmem or file areas: so that
__split_huge_pmd()'s page lock can only be necessary for anonymous THPs,
on which there is no risk of deadlock with i_mmap_rwsem.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.2101161409470.2022@eggly.anvils
Fixes: c444eb564fb1 ("mm: thp: make the THP mapcount atomic against __split_huge_pmd_locked()")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Issue: FP3SEC-44
(cherry picked from commit 332293a2301fde82bc41b359f870a96871764aaa)
Change-Id: Ifaa50890b2ee496d64c797f748657e0fb86cebe9
(cherry picked from commit 2fbeba3d9c2fca5e354150b6da4a53afcae64585)