From 1d798ca3f16437c71ff63e36597ff07f9c12e4d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 16:29:54 -0800 Subject: mm: make compound_head() robust Hugh has pointed that compound_head() call can be unsafe in some context. There's one example: CPU0 CPU1 isolate_migratepages_block() page_count() compound_head() !!PageTail() == true put_page() tail->first_page = NULL head = tail->first_page alloc_pages(__GFP_COMP) prep_compound_page() tail->first_page = head __SetPageTail(p); !!PageTail() == true The race is pure theoretical. I don't it's possible to trigger it in practice. But who knows. We can fix the race by changing how encode PageTail() and compound_head() within struct page to be able to update them in one shot. The patch introduces page->compound_head into third double word block in front of compound_dtor and compound_order. Bit 0 encodes PageTail() and the rest bits are pointer to head page if bit zero is set. The patch moves page->pmd_huge_pte out of word, just in case if an architecture defines pgtable_t into something what can have the bit 0 set. hugetlb_cgroup uses page->lru.next in the second tail page to store pointer struct hugetlb_cgroup. The patch switch it to use page->private in the second tail page instead. The space is free since ->first_page is removed from the union. The patch also opens possibility to remove HUGETLB_CGROUP_MIN_ORDER limitation, since there's now space in first tail page to store struct hugetlb_cgroup pointer. But that's out of scope of the patch. That means page->compound_head shares storage space with: - page->lru.next; - page->next; - page->rcu_head.next; That's too long list to be absolutely sure, but looks like nobody uses bit 0 of the word. page->rcu_head.next guaranteed[1] to have bit 0 clean as long as we use call_rcu(), call_rcu_bh(), call_rcu_sched(), or call_srcu(). But future call_rcu_lazy() is not allowed as it makes use of the bit and we can get false positive PageTail(). [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20150827163634.GD4029@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Acked-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/xtensa/configs/iss_defconfig | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch') diff --git a/arch/xtensa/configs/iss_defconfig b/arch/xtensa/configs/iss_defconfig index f3dfe0d921c2..44c6764d9146 100644 --- a/arch/xtensa/configs/iss_defconfig +++ b/arch/xtensa/configs/iss_defconfig @@ -169,7 +169,6 @@ CONFIG_FLATMEM_MANUAL=y # CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_MANUAL is not set CONFIG_FLATMEM=y CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP=y -CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED=y CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS=4 # CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT is not set CONFIG_ZONE_DMA_FLAG=1 -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b