[PATCH 3.18 24/33] mlock: fix mlock count can not decrease in race condition

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-06-05T16:19:22Z

From: Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@huawei.com>

commit 70feee0e1ef331b22cc51f383d532a0d043fbdcc upstream.

Kefeng reported that when running the follow test, the mlock count in
meminfo will increase permanently:

[1] testcase
linux:~ # cat test_mlockal
grep Mlocked /proc/meminfo
for j in `seq 0 10`
do
for i in `seq 4 15`
do
./p_mlockall >> log &
done
sleep 0.2
done
# wait some time to let mlock counter decrease and 5s may not enough
sleep 5
grep Mlocked /proc/meminfo

linux:~ # cat p_mlockall.c
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

#define SPACE_LEN 4096

int main(int argc, char ** argv)
{
int ret;
void *adr = malloc(SPACE_LEN);
if (!adr)
return -1;

ret = mlockall(MCL_CURRENT | MCL_FUTURE);
printf("mlcokall ret = %d\n", ret);

ret = munlockall();
printf("munlcokall ret = %d\n", ret);

free(adr);
return 0;
}

In __munlock_pagevec() we should decrement NR_MLOCK for each page where
we clear the PageMlocked flag. Commit 1ebb7cc6a583 ("mm: munlock: batch
NR_MLOCK zone state updates") has introduced a bug where we don't
decrement NR_MLOCK for pages where we clear the flag, but fail to
isolate them from the lru list (e.g. when the pages are on some other
cpu's percpu pagevec). Since PageMlocked stays cleared, the NR_MLOCK
accounting gets permanently disrupted by this.

Fix it by counting the number of page whose PageMlock flag is cleared.

Fixes: 1ebb7cc6a583 (" mm: munlock: batch NR_MLOCK zone state updates")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1495678405-54569-1-git-send-email-xieyisheng1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@huawei.com>
Reported-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: zhongjiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
Cc: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>
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/mlock.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/mlock.c
+++ b/mm/mlock.c
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ static void __munlock_pagevec(struct pag
{
int i;
int nr = pagevec_count(pvec);
- int delta_munlocked;
+ int delta_munlocked = -nr;
struct pagevec pvec_putback;
int pgrescued = 0;

@@ -353,6 +353,8 @@ static void __munlock_pagevec(struct pag
continue;
else
__munlock_isolation_failed(page);
+ } else {
+ delta_munlocked++;
}

/*
@@ -364,7 +366,6 @@ static void __munlock_pagevec(struct pag
pagevec_add(&pvec_putback, pvec->pages[i]);
pvec->pages[i] = NULL;
}
- delta_munlocked = -nr + pagevec_count(&pvec_putback);
__mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_MLOCK, delta_munlocked);
spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);