[PATCH v2 11/11] mm/migration: fix possible do_pages_stat_array racing with memory offline

From: Miaohe Lin
Date: Thu Mar 17 2022 - 10:42:42 EST


When follow_page peeks a page, the page could be migrated and then be
offlined while it's still being used by the do_pages_stat_array().
Use FOLL_GET to hold the page refcnt to fix this potential race.

Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/migrate.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index dbd91fbdb127..cd85ba0ab592 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -1807,13 +1807,18 @@ static void do_pages_stat_array(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long nr_pages,
goto set_status;

/* FOLL_DUMP to ignore special (like zero) pages */
- page = follow_page(vma, addr, FOLL_DUMP);
+ page = follow_page(vma, addr, FOLL_GET | FOLL_DUMP);

err = PTR_ERR(page);
if (IS_ERR(page))
goto set_status;

- err = page ? page_to_nid(page) : -ENOENT;
+ if (page) {
+ err = page_to_nid(page);
+ put_page(page);
+ } else {
+ err = -ENOENT;
+ }
set_status:
*status = err;

--
2.23.0