[PATCH] mm,page_owner: Fix recursion

From: Oscar Salvador
Date: Wed Mar 13 2024 - 19:41:41 EST


Prior to 217b2119b9e2 ("mm,page_owner: implement the tracking of the stacks count")
the only place where page_owner could potentially go into recursion due to
its need of allocating more memory was in save_stack(), which ends up calling
into stackdepot code with the possibility of allocating memory.

We made sure to guard against that by signaling that the current task was
already in page_owner code, so in case a recursion attempt was made, we
could catch that and return dummy_handle.

After above commit, a new place in page_owner code was introduced where we
could allocate memory, meaning we could go into recursion would we take that
path.

Make sure to signal that we are in page_owner in that codepath as well.
Move the guard code into two helpers {un}set_current_in_page_owner()
and use them prior to calling in the two functions that might allocate
memory.

Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
Fixes: 217b2119b9e2 ("mm,page_owner: implement the tracking of the stacks count")
---
mm/page_owner.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_owner.c b/mm/page_owner.c
index e96dd9092658..60663d657f7a 100644
--- a/mm/page_owner.c
+++ b/mm/page_owner.c
@@ -54,6 +54,22 @@ static depot_stack_handle_t early_handle;

static void init_early_allocated_pages(void);

+static inline void set_current_in_page_owner(void)
+{
+ /*
+ * Avoid recursion.
+ *
+ * We might need to allocate more memory from page_owner code, so make
+ * sure to signal it in order to avoid recursion.
+ */
+ current->in_page_owner = 1;
+}
+
+static inline void unset_current_in_page_owner(void)
+{
+ current->in_page_owner = 0;
+}
+
static int __init early_page_owner_param(char *buf)
{
int ret = kstrtobool(buf, &page_owner_enabled);
@@ -133,23 +149,16 @@ static noinline depot_stack_handle_t save_stack(gfp_t flags)
depot_stack_handle_t handle;
unsigned int nr_entries;

- /*
- * Avoid recursion.
- *
- * Sometimes page metadata allocation tracking requires more
- * memory to be allocated:
- * - when new stack trace is saved to stack depot
- */
if (current->in_page_owner)
return dummy_handle;
- current->in_page_owner = 1;

+ set_current_in_page_owner();
nr_entries = stack_trace_save(entries, ARRAY_SIZE(entries), 2);
handle = stack_depot_save(entries, nr_entries, flags);
if (!handle)
handle = failure_handle;
+ unset_current_in_page_owner();

- current->in_page_owner = 0;
return handle;
}

@@ -232,6 +241,7 @@ void __reset_page_owner(struct page *page, unsigned short order)
alloc_handle = page_owner->handle;

handle = save_stack(GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN);
+
for (i = 0; i < (1 << order); i++) {
__clear_bit(PAGE_EXT_OWNER_ALLOCATED, &page_ext->flags);
page_owner->free_handle = handle;
@@ -292,7 +302,9 @@ noinline void __set_page_owner(struct page *page, unsigned short order,
return;
__set_page_owner_handle(page_ext, handle, order, gfp_mask);
page_ext_put(page_ext);
+ set_current_in_page_owner();
inc_stack_record_count(handle, gfp_mask);
+ unset_current_in_page_owner();
}

void __set_page_owner_migrate_reason(struct page *page, int reason)
--
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