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David Hildenbrand f0f2cf2749 mm: migrate: don't rely on __PageMovable() of newpage after unlocking it 
commit e0a352fabc upstream.

We had a race in the old balloon compaction code before b1123ea6d3
("mm: balloon: use general non-lru movable page feature") refactored it
that became visible after backporting 195a8c43e9 ("virtio-balloon:
deflate via a page list") without the refactoring.

The bug existed from commit d6d86c0a7f ("mm/balloon_compaction:
redesign ballooned pages management") till b1123ea6d3 ("mm: balloon:
use general non-lru movable page feature").  d6d86c0a7f
("mm/balloon_compaction: redesign ballooned pages management") was
backported to 3.12, so the broken kernels are stable kernels [3.12 -
4.7].

There was a subtle race between dropping the page lock of the newpage in
__unmap_and_move() and checking for __is_movable_balloon_page(newpage).

Just after dropping this page lock, virtio-balloon could go ahead and
deflate the newpage, effectively dequeueing it and clearing PageBalloon,
in turn making __is_movable_balloon_page(newpage) fail.

This resulted in dropping the reference of the newpage via
putback_lru_page(newpage) instead of put_page(newpage), leading to
page->lru getting modified and a !LRU page ending up in the LRU lists.
With 195a8c43e9 ("virtio-balloon: deflate via a page list")
backported, one would suddenly get corrupted lists in
release_pages_balloon():

- WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 6586 at lib/list_debug.c:59 __list_del_entry+0xa1/0xd0
- list_del corruption. prev->next should be ffffe253961090a0, but was dead000000000100

Nowadays this race is no longer possible, but it is hidden behind very
ugly handling of __ClearPageMovable() and __PageMovable().

__ClearPageMovable() will not make __PageMovable() fail, only
PageMovable().  So the new check (__PageMovable(newpage)) will still
hold even after newpage was dequeued by virtio-balloon.

If anybody would ever change that special handling, the BUG would be
introduced again.  So instead, make it explicit and use the information
of the original isolated page before migration.

This patch can be backported fairly easy to stable kernels (in contrast
to the refactoring).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190129233217.10747-1-david@redhat.com
Fixes: d6d86c0a7f ("mm/balloon_compaction: redesign ballooned pages management")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Vratislav Bendel <vbendel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Vratislav Bendel <vbendel@redhat.com>
Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <k.khlebnikov@samsung.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[3.12 - 4.7]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2019-02-06 17:27:44 +01:00
arch arm64: hibernate: Clean the __hyp_text to PoC after resume 2019-02-06 17:27:41 +01:00
block block: use rcu_work instead of call_rcu to avoid sleep in softirq 2019-01-22 21:09:57 +01:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: ecc - regularize scalar for scalar multiplication 2019-01-26 09:20:41 +01:00
Documentation mm, proc: be more verbose about unstable VMA flags in /proc/<pid>/smaps 2019-01-26 09:20:51 +01:00
drivers platform/x86: asus-nb-wmi: Drop mapping of 0x33 and 0x34 scan codes 2019-02-06 17:27:43 +01:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs btrfs: On error always free subvol_name in btrfs_mount 2019-02-06 17:27:43 +01:00
include oom, oom_reaper: do not enqueue same task twice 2019-02-06 17:27:44 +01:00
init kbuild: Disable LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION with ftrace & GCC <= 4.7 2019-01-22 21:09:54 +01:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel kernel/exit.c: release ptraced tasks before zap_pid_ns_processes 2019-02-06 17:27:43 +01:00
lib fix int_sqrt64() for very large numbers 2019-01-22 21:09:55 +01:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
mm mm: migrate: don't rely on __PageMovable() of newpage after unlocking it 2019-02-06 17:27:44 +01:00
net ipv6: Consider sk_bound_dev_if when binding a socket to an address 2019-02-06 17:27:39 +01:00
samples samples: bpf: fix: error handling regarding kprobe_events 2019-01-26 09:20:42 +01:00
scripts kconfig: fix memory leak when EOF is encountered in quotation 2019-01-26 09:20:46 +01:00
security selinux: always allow mounting submounts 2019-01-26 09:20:42 +01:00
sound ALSA: pcm: Fix tight loop of OSS capture stream 2019-02-06 17:27:42 +01:00
tools selftests/seccomp: Enhance per-arch ptrace syscall skip tests 2019-02-06 17:27:40 +01:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Fix off-by-one bug in vgic_get_irq() 2019-01-09 17:46:04 +01:00
.clang-format page cache: Convert find_get_pages_contig to XArray 2018-10-21 10:46:34 -04:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap mailmap: Update email for Punit Agrawal 2018-11-05 10:02:11 +00:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update entry for MMP platform 2018-12-03 12:39:57 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-12-21 14:21:17 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.20.6 2019-01-31 08:15:47 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.