mm: hugetlb: fix a race between freeing and dissolving the page
authorMuchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Fri, 5 Feb 2021 02:32:06 +0000 (18:32 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 08:29:20 +0000 (09:29 +0100)
commite334b1fec6f426ce47967f390fd7c9c94c56dd5b
tree81d7c1399b1b4e46508f32c8f908233a13ae8505
parentafe6c31b84f6f27ea54d5424af1ff186f01144e4
mm: hugetlb: fix a race between freeing and dissolving the page

commit 7ffddd499ba6122b1a07828f023d1d67629aa017 upstream.

There is a race condition between __free_huge_page()
and dissolve_free_huge_page().

  CPU0:                         CPU1:

  // page_count(page) == 1
  put_page(page)
    __free_huge_page(page)
                                dissolve_free_huge_page(page)
                                  spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock)
                                  // PageHuge(page) && !page_count(page)
                                  update_and_free_page(page)
                                  // page is freed to the buddy
                                  spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock)
      spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock)
      clear_page_huge_active(page)
      enqueue_huge_page(page)
      // It is wrong, the page is already freed
      spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock)

The race window is between put_page() and dissolve_free_huge_page().

We should make sure that the page is already on the free list when it is
dissolved.

As a result __free_huge_page would corrupt page(s) already in the buddy
allocator.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210115124942.46403-4-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Fixes: c8721bbbdd36 ("mm: memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage")
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/hugetlb.c