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From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mm/readahead: Handle ractl nr_pages being modified
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 21:01:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210420200116.3715790-1-willy@infradead.org> (raw)

The BUG_ON that checks whether the ractl is still in sync with the
local variables can trigger under some fairly unusual circumstances.
Remove the BUG_ON and resync the loop counter after every call to
read_pages().

One way I've seen to trigger it is:

 - Start out with a partially populated range in the page cache
 - Allocate some pages and run into an existing page
 - Send the read request off to the filesystem
 - The page we ran into is removed from the page cache
 - readahead_expand() succeeds in expanding upwards
 - Return to page_cache_ra_unbounded() and we hit the BUG_ON, as nr_pages
   has been adjusted upwards.

Reported-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
---
 mm/readahead.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c
index f02dbebf1cef..989a8e710100 100644
--- a/mm/readahead.c
+++ b/mm/readahead.c
@@ -198,8 +198,6 @@ void page_cache_ra_unbounded(struct readahead_control *ractl,
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_to_read; i++) {
 		struct page *page = xa_load(&mapping->i_pages, index + i);
 
-		BUG_ON(index + i != ractl->_index + ractl->_nr_pages);
-
 		if (page && !xa_is_value(page)) {
 			/*
 			 * Page already present?  Kick off the current batch
@@ -210,6 +208,7 @@ void page_cache_ra_unbounded(struct readahead_control *ractl,
 			 * not worth getting one just for that.
 			 */
 			read_pages(ractl, &page_pool, true);
+			i = ractl->_index + ractl->_nr_pages - index;
 			continue;
 		}
 
@@ -223,6 +222,7 @@ void page_cache_ra_unbounded(struct readahead_control *ractl,
 					gfp_mask) < 0) {
 			put_page(page);
 			read_pages(ractl, &page_pool, true);
+			i = ractl->_index + ractl->_nr_pages - index;
 			continue;
 		}
 		if (i == nr_to_read - lookahead_size)
-- 
2.30.2


             reply	other threads:[~2021-04-20 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-20 20:01 Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) [this message]
2021-04-20 20:06 ` [PATCH] mm/readahead: Handle ractl nr_pages being modified Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-20 20:12 ` Jeff Layton
2021-04-20 21:03   ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-21 16:49     ` Jeff Layton
2021-04-21 10:34   ` David Howells
2021-04-21 12:27     ` Matthew Wilcox

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