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From: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>, Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>,
	 Alexander Motin <mav@ixsystems.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.6.y 1/3] mm/mglru: fix div-by-zero in vmpressure_calc_level()
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 01:44:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240729074434.1223587-1-yuzhao@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2024072912-during-vitalize-fe0c@gregkh>

evict_folios() uses a second pass to reclaim folios that have gone through
page writeback and become clean before it finishes the first pass, since
folio_rotate_reclaimable() cannot handle those folios due to the
isolation.

The second pass tries to avoid potential double counting by deducting
scan_control->nr_scanned.  However, this can result in underflow of
nr_scanned, under a condition where shrink_folio_list() does not increment
nr_scanned, i.e., when folio_trylock() fails.

The underflow can cause the divisor, i.e., scale=scanned+reclaimed in
vmpressure_calc_level(), to become zero, resulting in the following crash:

  [exception RIP: vmpressure_work_fn+101]
  process_one_work at ffffffffa3313f2b

Since scan_control->nr_scanned has no established semantics, the potential
double counting has minimal risks.  Therefore, fix the problem by not
deducting scan_control->nr_scanned in evict_folios().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240711191957.939105-1-yuzhao@google.com
Fixes: 359a5e1416ca ("mm: multi-gen LRU: retry folios written back while isolated")
Reported-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Motin <mav@ixsystems.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 8b671fe1a879923ecfb72dda6caf01460dd885ef)
---
 mm/vmscan.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index e9d4c1f6d7bb..0fea816d9946 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -5226,7 +5226,6 @@ static int evict_folios(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc, int swap
 
 		/* retry folios that may have missed folio_rotate_reclaimable() */
 		list_move(&folio->lru, &clean);
-		sc->nr_scanned -= folio_nr_pages(folio);
 	}
 
 	spin_lock_irq(&lruvec->lru_lock);
-- 
2.46.0.rc1.232.g9752f9e123-goog


  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-29  7:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-29  7:20 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/mglru: fix ineffective protection calculation" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree gregkh
2024-07-29  7:44 ` Yu Zhao [this message]
2024-07-29  7:44   ` [PATCH 6.6.y 2/3] mm/mglru: fix overshooting shrinker memory Yu Zhao
2024-07-29  7:44   ` [PATCH 6.6.y 3/3] mm/mglru: fix ineffective protection calculation Yu Zhao
2024-07-30 13:52     ` Greg KH
2024-07-29 16:52 ` [PATCH 6.6.y] " T.J. Mercier
2024-07-29 17:06   ` T.J. Mercier

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