We saw many list corruption warnings on shmem shrinklist:

  WARNING: CPU: 18 PID: 177 at lib/list_debug.c:59 __list_del_entry+0x9e/0xc0
  list_del corruption. prev->next should be ffff9ae5694b82d8, but was ffff9ae5699ba960
  Modules linked in: intel_rapl sb_edac edac_core x86_pkg_temp_thermal coretemp iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel raid0 dcdbas shpchp wmi hed i2c_i801 ioatdma lpc_ich i2c_smbus acpi_cpufreq tcp_diag inet_diag sch_fq_codel ipmi_si ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler igb ptp crc32c_intel pps_core i2c_algo_bit i2c_core dca ipv6 crc_ccitt
  CPU: 18 PID: 177 Comm: kswapd1 Not tainted 4.9.34-t3.el7.twitter.x86_64 #1
  Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge C6220/0W6W6G, BIOS 2.2.3 11/07/2013
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x4d/0x66
    __warn+0xcb/0xf0
    warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4f/0x60
    __list_del_entry+0x9e/0xc0
    shmem_unused_huge_shrink+0xfa/0x2e0
    shmem_unused_huge_scan+0x20/0x30
    super_cache_scan+0x193/0x1a0
    shrink_slab.part.41+0x1e3/0x3f0
    shrink_slab+0x29/0x30
    shrink_node+0xf9/0x2f0
    kswapd+0x2d8/0x6c0
    kthread+0xd7/0xf0
    ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

  WARNING: CPU: 23 PID: 639 at lib/list_debug.c:33 __list_add+0x89/0xb0
  list_add corruption. prev->next should be next (ffff9ae5699ba960), but was ffff9ae5694b82d8. (prev=ffff9ae5694b82d8).
  Modules linked in: intel_rapl sb_edac edac_core x86_pkg_temp_thermal coretemp iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel raid0 dcdbas shpchp wmi hed i2c_i801 ioatdma lpc_ich i2c_smbus acpi_cpufreq tcp_diag inet_diag sch_fq_codel ipmi_si ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler igb ptp crc32c_intel pps_core i2c_algo_bit i2c_core dca ipv6 crc_ccitt
  CPU: 23 PID: 639 Comm: systemd-udevd Tainted: G        W       4.9.34-t3.el7.twitter.x86_64 #1
  Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge C6220/0W6W6G, BIOS 2.2.3 11/07/2013
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x4d/0x66
    __warn+0xcb/0xf0
    warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4f/0x60
    __list_add+0x89/0xb0
    shmem_setattr+0x204/0x230
    notify_change+0x2ef/0x440
    do_truncate+0x5d/0x90
    path_openat+0x331/0x1190
    do_filp_open+0x7e/0xe0
    do_sys_open+0x123/0x200
    SyS_open+0x1e/0x20
    do_syscall_64+0x61/0x170
    entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25

The problem is that shmem_unused_huge_shrink() moves entries from the
global sbinfo->shrinklist to its local lists and then releases the
spinlock.  However, a parallel shmem_setattr() could access one of these
entries directly and add it back to the global shrinklist if it is
removed, with the spinlock held.

The logic itself looks solid since an entry could be either in a local
list or the global list, otherwise it is removed from one of them by
list_del_init().  So probably the race condition is that, one CPU is in
the middle of INIT_LIST_HEAD() but the other CPU calls list_empty()
which returns true too early then the following list_add_tail() sees a
corrupted entry.

list_empty_careful() is designed to fix this situation.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comments]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170803054630.18775-1-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com
Fixes: 779750d2 ("shmem: split huge pages beyond i_size under memory pressure")
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>