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SubjectRe: mm: BUG: Bad page state in process ksmd
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest running the latest -next
> kernel I've stumbled on the following.
>
> Out of curiosity, is there a reason not to do bad flag checks when actually
> setting flag? Obviously it'll be slower but it'll be easier catching these
> issues.o

I don't see how it would help here.

>
> [ 3926.683948] BUG: Bad page state in process ksmd pfn:5a6246
> [ 3926.689336] page:ffffea0016989180 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping:
> (null) index:
> [ 3926.696507] page flags:
> 0x56fffff8028001c(referenced|uptodate|dirty|swapbacked|mlock
> [ 3926.709201] page dumped because: PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE flag(s) set
> [ 3926.711216] bad because of flags:
> [ 3926.712136] page flags: 0x200000(mlocked)
> [ 3926.713574] Modules linked in:
> [ 3926.714466] CPU: 26 PID: 3864 Comm: ksmd Tainted: G W
> 3.14.0-rc7-next-201
> [ 3926.720942] ffffffff85688060 ffff8806ec7abc38 ffffffff844bd702
> 0000000000002fa0
> [ 3926.728107] ffffea0016989180 ffff8806ec7abc68 ffffffff844b158f
> 000fffff80000000
> [ 3926.730563] 0000000000000000 000fffff80000000 ffffffff85688060
> ffff8806ec7abcb8
> [ 3926.737653] Call Trace:
> [ 3926.738347] dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:52)
> [ 3926.739841] bad_page (arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:38
> include/linux/mm.h:432 mm/page_alloc.c:339)
> [ 3926.741296] free_pages_prepare (mm/page_alloc.c:644 mm/page_alloc.c:738)
> [ 3926.742818] free_hot_cold_page (mm/page_alloc.c:1371)
> [ 3926.749425] __put_single_page (mm/swap.c:71)
> [ 3926.751074] put_page (mm/swap.c:237)
> [ 3926.752398] ksm_do_scan (mm/ksm.c:1480 mm/ksm.c:1704)
> [ 3926.753957] ksm_scan_thread (mm/ksm.c:1723)
> [ 3926.755940] ? bit_waitqueue (kernel/sched/wait.c:291)
> [ 3926.758644] ? ksm_do_scan (mm/ksm.c:1715)
> [ 3926.760420] kthread (kernel/kthread.c:219)
> [ 3926.761605] ? kthread_create_on_node (kernel/kthread.c:185)
> [ 3926.763149] ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:555)
> [ 3926.764323] ? kthread_create_on_node (kernel/kthread.c:185)

I've thought about this some, and slept on it, but don't yet see
how it comes about. I'll have to come back to it later.

Was it a one-off, or do you find it fairly easy to reproduce?

If the latter, it would be interesting to know if it comes from
recent changes or not. mm/mlock.c does appear to have been under
continuous revision for several releases (but barely changed in next).

Thanks,
Hugh


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