Re: [PATCH v6 3/5] mm: hugetlb: fix a race between freeing and dissolving the page

[Oscar Salvador]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 08:49:40PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> 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 windows 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.
> 
> Fixes: c8721bbbdd36 ("mm: memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage")
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

LGTM,

Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>


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Oscar Salvador
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