[PATCH alexv12 2/2] mm/compaction: fix call to __isolate_lru_page_prepare()

[PATCH alexv12 2/2] mm/compaction: fix call to __isolate_lru_page_prepare()

[Hugh Dickins]

isolate_migratepages_block() is calling __isolate_lru_page_prepare()
at a point when it has not yet acquired a reference to the page, and
may not yet hold the right lruvec lock: it has no hold on the page.

trylock_page() is not safe to use at this time: its setting PG_locked
can race with the page being freed or allocated ("Bad page"), and can
also erase flags being set by one of those "sole owners" of a freshly
allocated page who use non-atomic __SetPageFlag().

Though I have tried rcu_read_lock() instead of trylock_page() there
(like in page_evictable()), 054f1d1faaed ("mm/swap_state.c: simplify
total_swapcache_pages() with get_swap_device()") stopped the freeing of
swapper_spaces by RCU; and races against setting PageSwapCache, and the
dereference of mapping->a_ops, and the lack of any page reference: all
make that a more dubious approach.

Just move the call to __isolate_lru_page_prepare() after the call to
get_page_unless_zero(), when using trylock_page() has become safe
(safe given __isolate's  check for PageLRU - unsafe without that).

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
---
I had envisaged this as a separate patch; but once it came down
to just moving the call inside isolate_migratepages_block(), it's
probably best folded into 10/16 or 12/16 (needs isolate_fail_put).

I shall probably want to come along later, to clean up or eliminate
__isolate_lru_page_prepare(): which I found before to have almost
nothing in common between its use by isolate_migratepages_block()
and its use by isolate_lru_pages(). We can then do its safer checks
before the get_page_unless_zero(). But trying that cleanup right
now would just get in the way of this series.

 mm/compaction.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- alexv12/mm/compaction.c	2020-06-11 13:48:10.437046025 -0700
+++ hughd/mm/compaction.c	2020-06-11 13:49:05.570579095 -0700
@@ -960,9 +960,6 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compac
 		if (!(cc->gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) && page_mapping(page))
 			goto isolate_fail;
 
-		if (__isolate_lru_page_prepare(page, isolate_mode) != 0)
-			goto isolate_fail;
-
 		/*
 		 * Be careful not to clear PageLRU until after we're
 		 * sure the page is not being freed elsewhere -- the
@@ -971,6 +968,9 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compac
 		if (unlikely(!get_page_unless_zero(page)))
 			goto isolate_fail;
 
+		if (__isolate_lru_page_prepare(page, isolate_mode) != 0)
+			goto isolate_fail_put;
+
 		/* Try isolate the page */
 		if (!TestClearPageLRU(page))
 			goto isolate_fail_put;