Patch "mm: numa: avoid waiting on freed migrated pages" has been added to the 4.11-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mm: numa: avoid waiting on freed migrated pages

to the 4.11-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     mm-numa-avoid-waiting-on-freed-migrated-pages.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 3c226c637b69104f6b9f1c6ec5b08d7b741b3229 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 14:02:34 -0700
Subject: mm: numa: avoid waiting on freed migrated pages

From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

commit 3c226c637b69104f6b9f1c6ec5b08d7b741b3229 upstream.

In do_huge_pmd_numa_page(), we attempt to handle a migrating thp pmd by
waiting until the pmd is unlocked before we return and retry.  However,
we can race with migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page():

    // do_huge_pmd_numa_page                // migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page()
    // Holds 0 refs on page                 // Holds 2 refs on page

    vmf->ptl = pmd_lock(vma->vm_mm, vmf->pmd);
    /* ... */
    if (pmd_trans_migrating(*vmf->pmd)) {
            page = pmd_page(*vmf->pmd);
            spin_unlock(vmf->ptl);
                                            ptl = pmd_lock(mm, pmd);
                                            if (page_count(page) != 2)) {
                                                    /* roll back */
                                            }
                                            /* ... */
                                            mlock_migrate_page(new_page, page);
                                            /* ... */
                                            spin_unlock(ptl);
                                            put_page(page);
                                            put_page(page); // page freed here
            wait_on_page_locked(page);
            goto out;
    }

This can result in the freed page having its waiters flag set
unexpectedly, which trips the PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP checks in the
page alloc/free functions.  This has been observed on arm64 KVM guests.

We can avoid this by having do_huge_pmd_numa_page() take a reference on
the page before dropping the pmd lock, mirroring what we do in
__migration_entry_wait().

When we hit the race, migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page() will see the
reference and abort the migration, as it may do today in other cases.

Fixes: b8916634b77bffb2 ("mm: Prevent parallel splits during THP migration")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1497349722-6731-2-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
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>

---
 mm/huge_memory.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1412,8 +1412,11 @@ int do_huge_pmd_numa_page(struct vm_faul
 	 */
 	if (unlikely(pmd_trans_migrating(*vmf->pmd))) {
 		page = pmd_page(*vmf->pmd);
+		if (!get_page_unless_zero(page))
+			goto out_unlock;
 		spin_unlock(vmf->ptl);
 		wait_on_page_locked(page);
+		put_page(page);
 		goto out;
 	}
 
@@ -1445,9 +1448,12 @@ int do_huge_pmd_numa_page(struct vm_faul
 
 	/* Migration could have started since the pmd_trans_migrating check */
 	if (!page_locked) {
+		page_nid = -1;
+		if (!get_page_unless_zero(page))
+			goto out_unlock;
 		spin_unlock(vmf->ptl);
 		wait_on_page_locked(page);
-		page_nid = -1;
+		put_page(page);
 		goto out;
 	}
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mark.rutland@arm.com are

queue-4.11/mm-numa-avoid-waiting-on-freed-migrated-pages.patch