From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
syzbot <syzbot+d1974fc28545a3e6218b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com,
will@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [syzbot] [arm?] WARNING in copy_highpage
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2025 09:55:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7af02ceb-563a-4bad-84ee-620aaa513bed@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aOACSWYIOD3llWnj@arm.com>
>> Modules linked in:
>> CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 25189 Comm: syz.2.7336 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT
>> Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
>> pstate: 00402009 (nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
>> pc : copy_highpage+0x150/0x334 arch/arm64/mm/copypage.c:55
>> lr : copy_highpage+0xb4/0x334 arch/arm64/mm/copypage.c:25
>> sp : ffff800088053940
>> x29: ffff800088053940 x28: ffffc1ffc0acf800 x27: ffff800088053b10
>> x26: ffffc1ffc0acf808 x25: ffffc1ffc037b1c0 x24: ffffc1ffc037b1c0
>> x23: ffffc1ffc0acf800 x22: ffffc1ffc0acf800 x21: fff000002b3e0000
>> x20: fff000000dec7000 x19: ffffc1ffc037b1c0 x18: 0000000000000000
>> x17: fff07ffffcffa000 x16: ffff800080008000 x15: 0000000000000001
>> x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000003 x12: 000000000006d9ad
>> x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000010 x9 : 0000000000000000
>> x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000
>> x5 : ffff800088053b18 x4 : ffff80008032df94 x3 : 00000000ff000000
>> x2 : 01ffc00003000001 x1 : 01ffc00003000001 x0 : 01ffc00003000001
>> Call trace:
>> try_page_mte_tagging arch/arm64/include/asm/mte.h:93 [inline] (P)
>> copy_highpage+0x150/0x334 arch/arm64/mm/copypage.c:55 (P)
>> copy_mc_highpage include/linux/highmem.h:383 [inline]
>> folio_mc_copy+0x44/0x6c mm/util.c:740
>> __migrate_folio.constprop.0+0xc4/0x23c mm/migrate.c:851
>> migrate_folio+0x1c/0x2c mm/migrate.c:882
>> move_to_new_folio+0x58/0x144 mm/migrate.c:1097
>> migrate_folio_move mm/migrate.c:1370 [inline]
>> migrate_folios_move mm/migrate.c:1719 [inline]
>> migrate_pages_batch+0xaf4/0x1024 mm/migrate.c:1966
>> migrate_pages_sync mm/migrate.c:2023 [inline]
>> migrate_pages+0xb9c/0xcdc mm/migrate.c:2105
>> do_mbind+0x20c/0x4a4 mm/mempolicy.c:1539
>> kernel_mbind mm/mempolicy.c:1682 [inline]
>> __do_sys_mbind mm/mempolicy.c:1756 [inline]
>
> I don't think we ever stressed MTE with mbind before. I have a suspicion
> this problem has been around for some time.
>
> My reading of do_mbind() is that it ends up allocating pages for
> migrating into via alloc_migration_target_by_mpol() ->
> folio_alloc_mpol(). Pages returned should be untagged and uninitialised
> unless the PG_* flags have not been cleared on a prior free. Or
> migrate_pages_batch() somehow reuses some pages instead of reallocating.
Staring at __migrate_folio(), I assume we can end up successfully
calling folio_mc_copy(), but then failing in __folio_migrate_mapping().
Seems to be as easy as failing the folio_ref_freeze() in
__folio_migrate_mapping().
We return -EAGAIN in that case, making the caller retry, stumbling into
an already-tagged page. (with the same source / destination parameters)
IIRC)
So likely this is simply us re-doing the copy after a migration failed
after the copy.
Could it happen that we are calling it with a different
source/destination combination the second time? I don't think so, but I
am not 100% sure.
The most reliable way would be to un-tag in case folio_mc_copy succeeded
but __folio_migrate_mapping() failed.
I'm also wondering whether we can simply perform the copy after the
__folio_migrate_mapping() call: the src folio is locked and unmapped,
nobody can really modify it. Same for the dst folio.
--
Cheers
David / dhildenb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-06 7:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-01 21:48 [syzbot] [arm?] WARNING in copy_highpage syzbot
2025-10-03 17:05 ` Catalin Marinas
2025-10-06 7:55 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2025-10-06 9:38 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-06 13:17 ` Catalin Marinas
2025-10-06 13:25 ` David Hildenbrand
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