Commit 1f2481dd authored Oct 15, 2020 by Naoya Horiguchi Committed by Linus Torvalds Oct 16, 2020

mm,hwpoison: double-check page count in __get_any_page()



Soft offlining could fail with EIO due to the race condition with hugepage
migration.  This issuse became visible due to the change by previous patch
that makes soft offline handler take page refcount by its own.  We have no
way to directly pin zero refcount page, and the page considered as a zero
refcount page could be allocated just after the first check.

This patch adds the second check to find the race and gives us chance to
handle it more reliably.

Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@ruivo.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Yakunin <zeil@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200922135650.1634-14-osalvador@suse.de


Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 5d1fd5dc

mm/memory-failure.c

+6 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1707,6 +1707,9 @@ static int __get_any_page(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn, int flags)
		} else if (is_free_buddy_page(p)) {
		pr_info("%s: %#lx free buddy page\n", __func__, pfn);
		ret = 0;
		} else if (page_count(p)) {
		/* raced with allocation */
		ret = -EBUSY;
		} else {
		pr_info("%s: %#lx: unknown zero refcount page type %lx\n",
		__func__, pfn, p->flags);
		@@ -1723,6 +1726,9 @@ static int get_any_page(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn, int flags)
		{
		int ret = __get_any_page(page, pfn, flags);

		if (ret == -EBUSY)
		ret = __get_any_page(page, pfn, flags);

		if (ret == 1 && !PageHuge(page) &&
		!PageLRU(page) && !__PageMovable(page)) {
		/*

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