[patch] mm, hugetlb: close race when setting PageTail for gigantic pages

[David Rientjes]

Now that gigantic pages are dynamically allocatable, care must be taken
to ensure that p->first_page is valid before setting PageTail.

If this isn't done, then it is possible to race and have compound_head()
return NULL.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/hugetlb.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -917,7 +917,6 @@ static void prep_compound_gigantic_page(struct page *page, unsigned long order)
 	__SetPageHead(page);
 	__ClearPageReserved(page);
 	for (i = 1; i < nr_pages; i++, p = mem_map_next(p, page, i)) {
-		__SetPageTail(p);
 		/*
 		 * For gigantic hugepages allocated through bootmem at
 		 * boot, it's safer to be consistent with the not-gigantic
@@ -933,6 +932,9 @@ static void prep_compound_gigantic_page(struct page *page, unsigned long order)
 		__ClearPageReserved(p);
 		set_page_count(p, 0);
 		p->first_page = page;
+		/* Make sure p->first_page is always valid for PageTail() */
+		smp_wmb();
+		__SetPageTail(p);
 	}
 }
 
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