Re: [syzbot] kernel BUG in __page_mapcount

From: Yang Shi
Date: Tue Dec 21 2021 - 14:07:23 EST


On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 10:40 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 10:24:27AM -0800, Yang Shi wrote:
> > It seems the THP is split during smaps walk. The reproducer does call
> > MADV_FREE on partial THP which may split the huge page.
> >
> > The below fix (untested) should be able to fix it.
>
> Did you read the rest of the thread on this? If the page is being
> migrated, we should still account it ... also, you've changed the

Yes, the being migrated pages may be skipped. We should be able to add
a new flag to smaps_account() to indicate this is a migration entry
then don't elevate the page count.

> refcount, so this:
>
> if (page_count(page) == 1) {
> smaps_page_accumulate(mss, page, size, size << PSS_SHIFT, dirty,
> locked, true);
> return;
> }
>
> will never trigger.

The get_page_unless_zero() is called after this block.