Re: mm, something wring in page_lock_anon_vma_read()?

[zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>]

On 2017/6/8 21:59, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 06/08/2017 03:44 PM, Xishi Qiu wrote:
>> On 2017/5/23 17:33, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/23/2017 11:21 AM, zhong jiang wrote:
>>>> On 2017/5/23 0:51, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>>>>> On 05/20/2017 05:01 AM, zhong jiang wrote:
>>>>>> On 2017/5/20 10:40, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sat, 20 May 2017, Xishi Qiu wrote:
>>>>>>>> Here is a bug report form redhat: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1305620
>>>>>>>> And I meet the bug too. However it is hard to reproduce, and 
>>>>>>>> 624483f3ea82598("mm: rmap: fix use-after-free in __put_anon_vma") is not help.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> From the vmcore, it seems that the page is still mapped(_mapcount=0 and _count=2),
>>>>>>>> and the value of mapping is a valid address(mapping = 0xffff8801b3e2a101),
>>>>>>>> but anon_vma has been corrupted.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>>>> Sorry, no.  I assume that _mapcount has been misaccounted, for example
>>>>>>> a pte mapped in on top of another pte; but cannot begin tell you where
>>>>>>> in Red Hat's kernel-3.10.0-229.4.2.el7 that might happen.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hugh
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> .
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi, Hugh
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I find the following message from the dmesg.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [26068.316592] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff8800a7de2d80 idx:1 val:1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I can prove that the __mapcount is misaccount.  when task is exited. the rmap
>>>>>> still exist.
>>>>> Check if the kernel in question contains this commit: ad33bb04b2a6 ("mm:
>>>>> thp: fix SMP race condition between THP page fault and MADV_DONTNEED")
>>>>   HI, Vlastimil
>>>>  
>>>>   I miss the patch.
>>> Try applying it then, there's good chance the error and crash will go
>>> away. Even if your workload doesn't actually run any madvise(MADV_DONTNEED).
>>>
>> Hi Vlastimil,
>>
>> I find this error was reported by Kirill as following, right?
>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7550401/
> That was reported by Minchan.
>
>> The call trace is quite like the same as ours.
> In that thread, the error seems just disappeared in the end.
  without any patch,  I wonder that how to disappear. 
> So, did you apply the patch I suggested? Did it help?
 yes, I apply the patch,  test two weeks,  no panic occur.
 but last panic just occur after one month.  so we still not sure that
  it is really resolved the issue.

  Thanks
zhongjiang
>> Thanks,
>> Xishi Qiu
>>
>>>> when I read the patch. I find the following issue. but I am sure it is right.
>>>>
>>>>       if (unlikely(pmd_trans_unstable(pmd)))
>>>>         return 0;
>>>>     /*
>>>>      * A regular pmd is established and it can't morph into a huge pmd
>>>>      * from under us anymore at this point because we hold the mmap_sem
>>>>      * read mode and khugepaged takes it in write mode. So now it's
>>>>      * safe to run pte_offset_map().
>>>>      */
>>>>     pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, address);
>>>>
>>>>   after pmd_trans_unstable call,  without any protect method.  by the comments,
>>>>   it think the pte_offset_map is safe.    before pte_offset_map call, it still may be
>>>>   unstable. it is possible?
>>> IIRC it's "unstable" wrt possible none->huge->none transition. But once
>>> we've seen it's a regular pmd via pmd_trans_unstable(), we're safe as a
>>> transition from regular pmd can't happen.
>>>
>>>>   Thanks
>>>> zhongjiang
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>> zhongjiang
>>>>>>
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