From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
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Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>,
Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>,
Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>,
syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>,
Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com>,
Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: thp: refix false positive BUG in page_move_anon_rmap()
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 15:05:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160712120551.GB18041@node> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.11.1607120444540.12528@eggly.anvils>
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 04:51:20AM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> The VM_BUG_ON_PAGE in page_move_anon_rmap() is more trouble than it's
> worth: the syzkaller fuzzer hit it again. It's still wrong for some
> THP cases, because linear_page_index() was never intended to apply to
> addresses before the start of a vma.
>
> That's easily fixed with a signed long cast inside linear_page_index();
> and Dmitry has tested such a patch, to verify the false positive. But
> why extend linear_page_index() just for this case? when the avoidance
> in page_move_anon_rmap() has already grown ugly, and there's no reason
> for the check at all (nothing else there is using address or index).
>
> Remove address arg from page_move_anon_rmap(), remove VM_BUG_ON_PAGE,
> remove CONFIG_DEBUG_VM PageTransHuge adjustment.
>
> And one more thing: should the compound_head(page) be done inside or
> outside page_move_anon_rmap()? It's usually pushed down to the lowest
> level nowadays (and mm/memory.c shows no other explicit use of it),
> so I think it's better done in page_move_anon_rmap() than by caller.
I agree, that's reasonable.
> Fixes: 0798d3c022dc ("mm: thp: avoid false positive VM_BUG_ON_PAGE in page_move_anon_rmap()")
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.5+
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> Of course, we could just do a patch that deletes the VM_BUG_ON_PAGE
> (and CONFIG_DEBUG_VM PageTransHuge adjustment) for now, and the cleanup
> afterwards - but this doesn't affect a widely used interface, or go back
> many stable releases, so personally I prefer to do it all in one go.
+1.
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2016-07-12 11:51 [PATCH] mm: thp: refix false positive BUG in page_move_anon_rmap() Hugh Dickins
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