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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: fix list corruptions on shmem shrinklist
On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 4:25 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 4:11 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> Where is this INIT_LIST_HEAD()?
>
> I think it's this one:
>
> list_del_init(&info->shrinklist);
>
> in shmem_unused_huge_shrink().


Yes, this is correct. Sorry about confusion.


>
>> I'm not sure I'm understanding this. AFAICT all the list operations to
>> which you refer are synchronized under spin_lock(&sbinfo->shrinklist_lock)?
>
> No, notice how shmem_unused_huge_shrink() does the
>
> list_move(&info->shrinklist, &to_remove);
>
> and
>
> list_move(&info->shrinklist, &list);
>
> to move to (two different) private lists under the shrinklist_lock,
> but once it is on that private "list/to_remove" list, it is then
> accessed outside the locked region.
>
> Honestly, I don't love this situation, or the patch, but I think the
> patch is likely the right thing to do.
>

Me neither. This is probably the quickest fix we could have,
other possible changes might need much more work.

Thanks.

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