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SubjectRe: [bug report] mm, hwpoison: memory_failure races with alloc_fresh_huge_page/free_huge_page
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On 2022/8/2 12:07, Muchun Song wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 10:00:50AM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
>> Hi all:
>> When I investigate the mm/memory-failure.c code again, I found there's a possible race window
>> between memory_failure and alloc_fresh_huge_page/free_huge_page. Thank about the below scene:
>>
>> CPU 1 CPU 2
>> alloc_fresh_huge_page -- page refcnt > 0 memory_failure
>> prep_new_huge_page get_huge_page_for_hwpoison
>> !PageHeadHuge -- so 2(not a hugepage) is returned
>> hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize -- subpages is read-only
>> set_compound_page_dtor -- PageHuge is true now, but too late!!!
>> TestSetPageHWPoison(p)
>> -- We might write to read-only subpages here!!!
>>
>> Another similar scene:
>>
>> CPU 1 CPU 2
>> free_huge_page -- page refcnt == 0 and not PageHuge memory_failure
>> get_huge_page_for_hwpoison
>> !PageHeadHuge -- so 2(not a hugepage) is returned
>> TestSetPageHWPoison(p)
>> -- We might write to read-only subpages here!!!
>> hugetlb_vmemmap_restore -- subpages can be written to now, but too late!!!
>>
>
> I agree this race is possible, I have proposed this race in thread [1].

Oh, I remember I see the race proposed in [1] but I did not look into that carefully at that time. Sorry.

> But I didn't think more how to solve it.
I hope this thread can find a good solution. :)

>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220623235153.2623702-1-naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev/T/#ma094a7cea7df8fd9a77a91551bf39077d89e23bd
>
>> I think the above scenes are possible. But I can't found a stable solution to fix it. Any suggestions?
>> Or is it not worth to fix it as it's too rare? Or am I miss something?
>>
>
> Luckily, the system will panic at once, which encountering this race. However,
> we don't see any bug report. If we have an easy way to fix it, I think it is worth.

Agree. But I can't find a easy way to fix it yet.

> Just a quick reply, no suggestion/solutions from me.

Many thanks for your quick reply.

>
> Thanks.
>
>> Any response would be appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
> .
>

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