From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Wupeng Ma <mawupeng1@huawei.com>,
"Oscar Salvador (SUSE)" <osalvador@kernel.org>,
Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>,
Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.12.y] mm/memory-failure: fix hugetlb_lock AA deadlock in get_huge_page_for_hwpoison
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:28:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260615132859.2064439-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026061513-catalog-deviant-3f62@gregkh>
From: Wupeng Ma <mawupeng1@huawei.com>
[ Upstream commit 3c2d42b8ee345b17a4ba56b0f6492d1ff4c1178e ]
Two concurrent madvise(MADV_HWPOISON) calls on the same hugetlb page can
trigger a recursive spinlock self-deadlock (AA deadlock) on hugetlb_lock
when racing with a concurrent unmap:
thread#0 thread#1
-------- --------
madvise(folio, MADV_HWPOISON)
-> poisons the folio successfully
madvise(folio, MADV_HWPOISON) unmap(folio)
try_memory_failure_hugetlb
get_huge_page_for_hwpoison
spin_lock_irq(&hugetlb_lock) <- held
__get_huge_page_for_hwpoison
hugetlb_update_hwpoison()
-> MF_HUGETLB_FOLIO_PRE_POISONED
goto out:
folio_put()
refcount: 1 -> 0
free_huge_folio()
spin_lock_irqsave(&hugetlb_lock)
-> AA DEADLOCK!
The out: path in __get_huge_page_for_hwpoison() calls folio_put() to drop
the GUP reference while the hugetlb_lock is still held by the hugetlb.c
wrapper get_huge_page_for_hwpoison(). If concurrent unmap has released
the page table mapping reference, folio_put() drops the folio refcount to
zero, triggering free_huge_folio() which attempts to re-acquire the
non-recursive hugetlb_lock.
Fix this by moving hugetlb_lock acquisition from the hugetlb.c wrapper
into get_huge_page_for_hwpoison(). Place spin_unlock_irq() before the
folio_put() at the out: label so the folio is always released outside the
lock.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix race, rename label per Miaohe]
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260522010305.4099834-1-mawupeng1@huawei.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/f39f405e-4b4b-8f79-70fe-a2b5b62114eb@huawei.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260522010305.4099834-1-mawupeng1@huawei.com
Fixes: 405ce051236c ("mm/hwpoison: fix race between hugetlb free/demotion and memory_failure_hugetlb()")
Signed-off-by: Wupeng Ma <mawupeng1@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Oscar Salvador (SUSE) <osalvador@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
include/linux/hugetlb.h | 8 --------
include/linux/mm.h | 8 --------
mm/hugetlb.c | 11 -----------
mm/memory-failure.c | 19 ++++++++++---------
4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index 32c9bc8c750c59..739bc71c33fd19 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -155,8 +155,6 @@ long hugetlb_unreserve_pages(struct inode *inode, long start, long end,
long freed);
bool isolate_hugetlb(struct folio *folio, struct list_head *list);
int get_hwpoison_hugetlb_folio(struct folio *folio, bool *hugetlb, bool unpoison);
-int get_huge_page_for_hwpoison(unsigned long pfn, int flags,
- bool *migratable_cleared);
void folio_putback_active_hugetlb(struct folio *folio);
void move_hugetlb_state(struct folio *old_folio, struct folio *new_folio, int reason);
void hugetlb_fix_reserve_counts(struct inode *inode);
@@ -430,12 +428,6 @@ static inline int get_hwpoison_hugetlb_folio(struct folio *folio, bool *hugetlb,
return 0;
}
-static inline int get_huge_page_for_hwpoison(unsigned long pfn, int flags,
- bool *migratable_cleared)
-{
- return 0;
-}
-
static inline void folio_putback_active_hugetlb(struct folio *folio)
{
}
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 544ee79faf37f8..ad38239294640f 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -3995,8 +3995,6 @@ extern int soft_offline_page(unsigned long pfn, int flags);
*/
extern const struct attribute_group memory_failure_attr_group;
extern void memory_failure_queue(unsigned long pfn, int flags);
-extern int __get_huge_page_for_hwpoison(unsigned long pfn, int flags,
- bool *migratable_cleared);
void num_poisoned_pages_inc(unsigned long pfn);
void num_poisoned_pages_sub(unsigned long pfn, long i);
#else
@@ -4004,12 +4002,6 @@ static inline void memory_failure_queue(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
{
}
-static inline int __get_huge_page_for_hwpoison(unsigned long pfn, int flags,
- bool *migratable_cleared)
-{
- return 0;
-}
-
static inline void num_poisoned_pages_inc(unsigned long pfn)
{
}
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index c5975b411afbb2..bf675232b5aba4 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -7457,17 +7457,6 @@ int get_hwpoison_hugetlb_folio(struct folio *folio, bool *hugetlb, bool unpoison
return ret;
}
-int get_huge_page_for_hwpoison(unsigned long pfn, int flags,
- bool *migratable_cleared)
-{
- int ret;
-
- spin_lock_irq(&hugetlb_lock);
- ret = __get_huge_page_for_hwpoison(pfn, flags, migratable_cleared);
- spin_unlock_irq(&hugetlb_lock);
- return ret;
-}
-
void folio_putback_active_hugetlb(struct folio *folio)
{
spin_lock_irq(&hugetlb_lock);
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index efebd0a397cbe1..2dfbc8a8d505ee 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -2020,20 +2020,19 @@ void folio_clear_hugetlb_hwpoison(struct folio *folio)
folio_free_raw_hwp(folio, true);
}
-/*
- * Called from hugetlb code with hugetlb_lock held.
- */
-int __get_huge_page_for_hwpoison(unsigned long pfn, int flags,
+static int get_huge_page_for_hwpoison(unsigned long pfn, int flags,
bool *migratable_cleared)
{
struct page *page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
- struct folio *folio = page_folio(page);
+ struct folio *folio;
bool count_increased = false;
int ret, rc;
+ spin_lock_irq(&hugetlb_lock);
+ folio = page_folio(page);
if (!folio_test_hugetlb(folio)) {
ret = MF_HUGETLB_NON_HUGEPAGE;
- goto out;
+ goto out_unlock;
} else if (flags & MF_COUNT_INCREASED) {
ret = MF_HUGETLB_IN_USED;
count_increased = true;
@@ -2049,13 +2048,13 @@ int __get_huge_page_for_hwpoison(unsigned long pfn, int flags,
} else {
ret = MF_HUGETLB_RETRY;
if (!(flags & MF_NO_RETRY))
- goto out;
+ goto out_unlock;
}
rc = hugetlb_update_hwpoison(folio, page);
if (rc >= MF_HUGETLB_FOLIO_PRE_POISONED) {
ret = rc;
- goto out;
+ goto out_unlock;
}
/*
@@ -2067,8 +2066,10 @@ int __get_huge_page_for_hwpoison(unsigned long pfn, int flags,
*migratable_cleared = true;
}
+ spin_unlock_irq(&hugetlb_lock);
return ret;
-out:
+out_unlock:
+ spin_unlock_irq(&hugetlb_lock);
if (count_increased)
folio_put(folio);
return ret;
--
2.53.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-15 13:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-15 3:51 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/memory-failure: fix hugetlb_lock AA deadlock in" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree gregkh
2026-06-15 13:28 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20260615132859.2064439-1-sashal@kernel.org \
--to=sashal@kernel.org \
--cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=david@kernel.org \
--cc=liam.howlett@oracle.com \
--cc=linmiaohe@huawei.com \
--cc=ljs@kernel.org \
--cc=mawupeng1@huawei.com \
--cc=mhocko@suse.com \
--cc=muchun.song@linux.dev \
--cc=nao.horiguchi@gmail.com \
--cc=osalvador@kernel.org \
--cc=rppt@kernel.org \
--cc=stable@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=surenb@google.com \
--cc=vbabka@kernel.org \
--cc=wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox