The patch titled Subject: mm: page_alloc: move mlocked flag clearance into free_pages_prepare() has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-page_alloc-move-mlocked-flag-clearance-into-free_pages_prepare.patch
This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches...
This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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------------------------------------------------------ From: Roman Gushchin roman.gushchin@linux.dev Subject: mm: page_alloc: move mlocked flag clearance into free_pages_prepare() Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 19:53:54 +0000
Syzbot reported a bad page state problem caused by a page being freed using free_page() still having a mlocked flag at free_pages_prepare() stage:
BUG: Bad page state in process syz.5.504 pfn:61f45 page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x61f45 flags: 0xfff00000080204(referenced|workingset|mlocked|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff) raw: 00fff00000080204 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 0000000000000000 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE flag(s) set page_owner tracks the page as allocated page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x400dc0(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT|__GFP_ZERO), pid 8443, tgid 8442 (syz.5.504), ts 201884660643, free_ts 201499827394 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline] post_alloc_hook+0x1f3/0x230 mm/page_alloc.c:1537 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1545 [inline] get_page_from_freelist+0x303f/0x3190 mm/page_alloc.c:3457 __alloc_pages_noprof+0x292/0x710 mm/page_alloc.c:4733 alloc_pages_mpol_noprof+0x3e8/0x680 mm/mempolicy.c:2265 kvm_coalesced_mmio_init+0x1f/0xf0 virt/kvm/coalesced_mmio.c:99 kvm_create_vm virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1235 [inline] kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vm virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:5488 [inline] kvm_dev_ioctl+0x12dc/0x2240 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:5530 __do_compat_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:1007 [inline] __se_compat_sys_ioctl+0x510/0xc90 fs/ioctl.c:950 do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/common.c:165 [inline] __do_fast_syscall_32+0xb4/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:386 do_fast_syscall_32+0x34/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:411 entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x84/0x8e page last free pid 8399 tgid 8399 stack trace: reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline] free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1108 [inline] free_unref_folios+0xf12/0x18d0 mm/page_alloc.c:2686 folios_put_refs+0x76c/0x860 mm/swap.c:1007 free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x5c8/0x690 mm/swap_state.c:335 __tlb_batch_free_encoded_pages mm/mmu_gather.c:136 [inline] tlb_batch_pages_flush mm/mmu_gather.c:149 [inline] tlb_flush_mmu_free mm/mmu_gather.c:366 [inline] tlb_flush_mmu+0x3a3/0x680 mm/mmu_gather.c:373 tlb_finish_mmu+0xd4/0x200 mm/mmu_gather.c:465 exit_mmap+0x496/0xc40 mm/mmap.c:1926 __mmput+0x115/0x390 kernel/fork.c:1348 exit_mm+0x220/0x310 kernel/exit.c:571 do_exit+0x9b2/0x28e0 kernel/exit.c:926 do_group_exit+0x207/0x2c0 kernel/exit.c:1088 __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1099 [inline] __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1097 [inline] __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3f/0x40 kernel/exit.c:1097 x64_sys_call+0x2634/0x2640 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:232 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f Modules linked in: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 8442 Comm: syz.5.504 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc6-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024 Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120 bad_page+0x176/0x1d0 mm/page_alloc.c:501 free_page_is_bad mm/page_alloc.c:918 [inline] free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1100 [inline] free_unref_page+0xed0/0xf20 mm/page_alloc.c:2638 kvm_destroy_vm virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1327 [inline] kvm_put_kvm+0xc75/0x1350 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1386 kvm_vcpu_release+0x54/0x60 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4143 __fput+0x23f/0x880 fs/file_table.c:431 task_work_run+0x24f/0x310 kernel/task_work.c:239 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:43 [inline] do_exit+0xa2f/0x28e0 kernel/exit.c:939 do_group_exit+0x207/0x2c0 kernel/exit.c:1088 __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1099 [inline] __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1097 [inline] __ia32_sys_exit_group+0x3f/0x40 kernel/exit.c:1097 ia32_sys_call+0x2624/0x2630 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_32.h:253 do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/common.c:165 [inline] __do_fast_syscall_32+0xb4/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:386 do_fast_syscall_32+0x34/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:411 entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x84/0x8e RIP: 0023:0xf745d579 Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xf745d54f. RSP: 002b:00000000f75afd6c EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000fc RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000ffffff9c RDI: 00000000f744cff4 RBP: 00000000f717ae61 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 </TASK>
The problem was originally introduced by commit b109b87050df ("mm/munlock: replace clear_page_mlock() by final clearance"): it was focused on handling pagecache and anonymous memory and wasn't suitable for lower level get_page()/free_page() API's used for example by KVM, as with this reproducer.
Fix it by moving the mlocked flag clearance down to free_page_prepare().
The bug itself if fairly old and harmless (aside from generating these warnings), aside from a small memory leak - "bad" pages are stopped from being allocated again.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241106195354.270757-1-roman.gushchin@linux.dev Fixes: b109b87050df ("mm/munlock: replace clear_page_mlock() by final clearance") Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin roman.gushchin@linux.dev Reported-by: syzbot+e985d3026c4fd041578e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6729f475.050a0220.701a.0019.GAE@google.com Acked-by: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Cc: Matthew Wilcox willy@infradead.org Cc: Sean Christopherson seanjc@google.com Cc: Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
mm/page_alloc.c | 15 +++++++++++++++ mm/swap.c | 14 -------------- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-move-mlocked-flag-clearance-into-free_pages_prepare +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1048,6 +1048,7 @@ __always_inline bool free_pages_prepare( bool skip_kasan_poison = should_skip_kasan_poison(page); bool init = want_init_on_free(); bool compound = PageCompound(page); + struct folio *folio = page_folio(page);
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageTail(page), page);
@@ -1057,6 +1058,20 @@ __always_inline bool free_pages_prepare( if (memcg_kmem_online() && PageMemcgKmem(page)) __memcg_kmem_uncharge_page(page, order);
+ /* + * In rare cases, when truncation or holepunching raced with + * munlock after VM_LOCKED was cleared, Mlocked may still be + * found set here. This does not indicate a problem, unless + * "unevictable_pgs_cleared" appears worryingly large. + */ + if (unlikely(folio_test_mlocked(folio))) { + long nr_pages = folio_nr_pages(folio); + + __folio_clear_mlocked(folio); + zone_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_MLOCK, -nr_pages); + count_vm_events(UNEVICTABLE_PGCLEARED, nr_pages); + } + if (unlikely(PageHWPoison(page)) && !order) { /* Do not let hwpoison pages hit pcplists/buddy */ reset_page_owner(page, order); --- a/mm/swap.c~mm-page_alloc-move-mlocked-flag-clearance-into-free_pages_prepare +++ a/mm/swap.c @@ -78,20 +78,6 @@ static void __page_cache_release(struct lruvec_del_folio(*lruvecp, folio); __folio_clear_lru_flags(folio); } - - /* - * In rare cases, when truncation or holepunching raced with - * munlock after VM_LOCKED was cleared, Mlocked may still be - * found set here. This does not indicate a problem, unless - * "unevictable_pgs_cleared" appears worryingly large. - */ - if (unlikely(folio_test_mlocked(folio))) { - long nr_pages = folio_nr_pages(folio); - - __folio_clear_mlocked(folio); - zone_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_MLOCK, -nr_pages); - count_vm_events(UNEVICTABLE_PGCLEARED, nr_pages); - } }
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from roman.gushchin@linux.dev are
signal-restore-the-override_rlimit-logic.patch mm-page_alloc-move-mlocked-flag-clearance-into-free_pages_prepare.patch