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    mm: migrate: fix getting incorrect page mapping during page migration · d1adb25d
    Baolin Wang authored
    When running stress-ng testing, we found below kernel crash after a few hours:
    
    Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
    pc : dentry_name+0xd8/0x224
    lr : pointer+0x22c/0x370
    sp : ffff800025f134c0
    ......
    Call trace:
      dentry_name+0xd8/0x224
      pointer+0x22c/0x370
      vsnprintf+0x1ec/0x730
      vscnprintf+0x2c/0x60
      vprintk_store+0x70/0x234
      vprintk_emit+0xe0/0x24c
      vprintk_default+0x3c/0x44
      vprintk_func+0x84/0x2d0
      printk+0x64/0x88
      __dump_page+0x52c/0x530
      dump_page+0x14/0x20
      set_migratetype_isolate+0x110/0x224
      start_isolate_page_range+0xc4/0x20c
      offline_pages+0x124/0x474
      memory_block_offline+0x44/0xf4
      memory_subsys_offline+0x3c/0x70
      device_offline+0xf0/0x120
      ......
    
    After analyzing the vmcore, I found this issue is caused by page migration.
    The scenario is that, one thread is doing page migration, and we will use the
    target page's ->mapping field to save 'anon_vma' pointer between page unmap and
    page move, and now the target page is locked and refcount is 1.
    
    Currently, there is another stress-ng thread performing memory hotplug,
    attempting to offline the target page that is being migrated. It discovers that
    the refcount of this target page is 1, preventing the offline operation, thus
    proceeding to dump the page. However, page_mapping() of the target page may
    return an incorrect file mapping to crash the system in dump_mapping(), since
    the target page->mapping only saves 'anon_vma' pointer without setting
    PAGE_MAPPING_ANON flag.
    
    There are seveval ways to fix this issue:
    (1) Setting the PAGE_MAPPING_ANON flag for target page's ->mapping when saving
    'anon_vma', but this can confuse PageAnon() for PFN walkers, since the target
    page has not built mappings yet.
    (2) Getting the page lock to call page_mapping() in __dump_page() to avoid crashing
    the system, however, there are still some PFN walkers that call page_mapping()
    without holding the page lock, such as compaction.
    (3) Using target page->private field to save the 'anon_vma' pointer and 2 bits
    page state, just as page->mapping records an anonymous page, which can remove
    the page_mapping() impact for PFN walkers and also seems a simple way.
    
    So I choose option 3 to fix this issue, and this can also fix other potential
    issues for PFN walkers, such as compaction.
    
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e60b17a88afc38cb32f84c3e30837ec70b343d2b.1702641709.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
    Fixes: 64c8902e ("migrate_pages: split unmap_and_move() to _unmap() and _move()")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBaolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatar"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
    Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
    Cc: Xu Yu <xuyu@linux.alibaba.com>
    Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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