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authorMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>2020-10-13 16:56:04 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-10-13 18:38:33 -0700
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mm/page_alloc.c: fix freeing non-compound pages
Here is a very rare race which leaks memory: Page P0 is allocated to the page cache. Page P1 is free. Thread A Thread B Thread C find_get_entry(): xas_load() returns P0 Removes P0 from page cache P0 finds its buddy P1 alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 1) returns P0 P0 has refcount 1 page_cache_get_speculative(P0) P0 has refcount 2 __free_pages(P0) P0 has refcount 1 put_page(P0) P1 is not freed Fix this by freeing all the pages in __free_pages() that won't be freed by the call to put_page(). It's usually not a good idea to split a page, but this is a very unlikely scenario. Fixes: e286781d5f2e ("mm: speculative page references") Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200926213919.26642-1-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 0c781f912f9f..491789a793ae 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -2367,6 +2367,15 @@ config TEST_HMM
If unsure, say N.
+config TEST_FREE_PAGES
+ tristate "Test freeing pages"
+ help
+ Test that a memory leak does not occur due to a race between
+ freeing a block of pages and a speculative page reference.
+ Loading this module is safe if your kernel has the bug fixed.
+ If the bug is not fixed, it will leak gigabytes of memory and
+ probably OOM your system.
+
config TEST_FPU
tristate "Test floating point operations in kernel space"
depends on X86 && !KCOV_INSTRUMENT_ALL