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From: Ye Liu <ye.liu@linux.dev>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Ye Liu <ye.liu@linux.dev>, Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] mm/page_owner: use memcg_data snapshot instead of PageMemcgKmem() to avoid TOCTOU VM_BUG_ON
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:47:05 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260625014708.87386-3-ye.liu@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260625014708.87386-1-ye.liu@linux.dev>

print_page_owner_memcg() takes a snapshot of page->memcg_data via
READ_ONCE at the top of the function and guards against tail pages
and NULL memcg_data.  However, at the end it calls PageMemcgKmem(page)
which internally calls folio_memcg_kmem() — and that function re-reads
folio->memcg_data and page->compound_head locklessly, wrapping both
in VM_BUG_ON assertions:

    VM_BUG_ON_PGFLAGS(PageTail(&folio->page), &folio->page);
    VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(folio->memcg_data & MEMCG_DATA_OBJEXTS, folio);

If the page is concurrently freed and reallocated as a THP tail page
or a slab page between the initial guards and this final call, the
VM_BUG_ON assertions can fire on debug builds (CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y),
causing a kernel panic.

Fix by reusing the memcg_data snapshot already taken at function entry
instead of calling PageMemcgKmem(), which is semantically equivalent:
PageMemcgKmem()->folio_memcg_kmem()->folio->memcg_data & MEMCG_DATA_KMEM.
This avoids both the TOCTOU window and the assertions entirely.

Signed-off-by: Ye Liu <ye.liu@linux.dev>
---
 mm/page_owner.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_owner.c b/mm/page_owner.c
index 5c403bce35ce..b3252ebc0307 100644
--- a/mm/page_owner.c
+++ b/mm/page_owner.c
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ static inline int print_page_owner_memcg(char *kbuf, size_t count, int ret,
 	cgroup_name(memcg->css.cgroup, name, sizeof(name));
 	ret += scnprintf(kbuf + ret, count - ret,
 			"Charged %sto %smemcg %s\n",
-			PageMemcgKmem(page) ? "(via objcg) " : "",
+			(memcg_data & MEMCG_DATA_KMEM) ? "(via objcg) " : "",
 			online ? "" : "offline ",
 			name);
 out_unlock:
-- 
2.43.0



  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-06-25  1:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-25  1:47 [PATCH 0/2] mm/page_owner: fix TOCTOU races in lockless page state reading Ye Liu
2026-06-25  1:47 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm/page_owner: clamp skip_buddy_pages() PFN advance at MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary Ye Liu
2026-06-25  1:47 ` Ye Liu [this message]
2026-06-25  2:04 ` [PATCH 0/2] mm/page_owner: fix TOCTOU races in lockless page state reading Andrew Morton

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