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| author | Zi Yan <zi.yan@cs.rutgers.edu> | 2017-11-29 16:11:12 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-11-29 18:40:43 -0800 |
| commit | 40a899ed16486455f964e46d1af31fd4fded21c1 (patch) | |
| tree | 912797850cc157a838f53059a765e90276332578 /include/linux/migrate.h | |
| parent | bde5f6bc68db51128f875a756e9082a6c6ff7b4c (diff) | |
| download | lwn-40a899ed16486455f964e46d1af31fd4fded21c1.tar.gz lwn-40a899ed16486455f964e46d1af31fd4fded21c1.zip | |
mm: migrate: fix an incorrect call of prep_transhuge_page()
In https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/20/411, Andrea reported that during
memory hotplug/hot remove prep_transhuge_page() is called incorrectly on
non-THP pages for migration, when THP is on but THP migration is not
enabled. This leads to a bad state of target pages for migration.
By inspecting the code, if called on a non-THP, prep_transhuge_page()
will
1) change the value of the mapping of (page + 2), since it is used for
THP deferred list;
2) change the lru value of (page + 1), since it is used for THP's dtor.
Both can lead to data corruption of these two pages.
Andrea said:
"Pragmatically and from the point of view of the memory_hotplug subsys,
the effect is a kernel crash when pages are being migrated during a
memory hot remove offline and migration target pages are found in a
bad state"
This patch fixes it by only calling prep_transhuge_page() when we are
certain that the target page is THP.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171121021855.50525-1-zi.yan@sent.com
Fixes: 8135d8926c08 ("mm: memory_hotplug: memory hotremove supports thp migration")
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <zi.yan@cs.rutgers.edu>
Reported-by: Andrea Reale <ar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.14]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/migrate.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/migrate.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/migrate.h b/include/linux/migrate.h index 895ec0c4942e..a2246cf670ba 100644 --- a/include/linux/migrate.h +++ b/include/linux/migrate.h @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static inline struct page *new_page_nodemask(struct page *page, new_page = __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_mask, order, preferred_nid, nodemask); - if (new_page && PageTransHuge(page)) + if (new_page && PageTransHuge(new_page)) prep_transhuge_page(new_page); return new_page; |