Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] mm/thp: fix vma_address() if virtual address below file offset

["Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>]

On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 02:40:30PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Running certain tests with a DEBUG_VM kernel would crash within hours,
> on the total_mapcount BUG() in split_huge_page_to_list(), while trying
> to free up some memory by punching a hole in a shmem huge page: split's
> try_to_unmap() was unable to find all the mappings of the page (which,
> on a !DEBUG_VM kernel, would then keep the huge page pinned in memory).
> 
> When that BUG() was changed to a WARN(), it would later crash on the
> VM_BUG_ON_VMA(end < vma->vm_start || start >= vma->vm_end, vma) in
> mm/internal.h:vma_address(), used by rmap_walk_file() for try_to_unmap().
> 
> vma_address() is usually correct, but there's a wraparound case when the
> vm_start address is unusually low, but vm_pgoff not so low: vma_address()
> chooses max(start, vma->vm_start), but that decides on the wrong address,
> because start has become almost ULONG_MAX.
> 
> Rewrite vma_address() to be more careful about vm_pgoff; move the
> VM_BUG_ON_VMA() out of it, returning -EFAULT for errors, so that it can
> be safely used from page_mapped_in_vma() and page_address_in_vma() too.
> 
> Add vma_address_end() to apply similar care to end address calculation,
> in page_vma_mapped_walk() and page_mkclean_one() and try_to_unmap_one();
> though it raises a question of whether callers would do better to supply
> pvmw->end to page_vma_mapped_walk() - I chose not, for a smaller patch.
> 
> An irritation is that their apparent generality breaks down on KSM pages,
> which cannot be located by the page->index that page_to_pgoff() uses: as
> 4b0ece6fa016 ("mm: migrate: fix remove_migration_pte() for ksm pages")
> once discovered.  I dithered over the best thing to do about that, and
> have ended up with a VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageKsm) in both vma_address() and
> vma_address_end(); though the only place in danger of using it on them
> was try_to_unmap_one().
> 
> Sidenote: vma_address() and vma_address_end() now use compound_nr() on
> a head page, instead of thp_size(): to make the right calculation on a
> hugetlbfs page, whether or not THPs are configured.  try_to_unmap() is
> used on hugetlbfs pages, but perhaps the wrong calculation never mattered.
> 
> Fixes: a8fa41ad2f6f ("mm, rmap: check all VMAs that PTE-mapped THP can be part of")
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>

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 Kirill A. Shutemov