We had a race in the old balloon compaction code before commit b1123ea6d3b3 ("mm: balloon: use general non-lru movable page feature") refactored it that became visible after backporting commit 195a8c43e93d ("virtio-balloon: deflate via a page list") without the refactoring.
The bug existed from commit d6d86c0a7f8d ("mm/balloon_compaction: redesign ballooned pages management") till commit b1123ea6d3b3 ("mm: balloon: use general non-lru movable page feature"). commit d6d86c0a7f8d ("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 commit 195a8c43e93d ("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).
Cc: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org 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 Fixes: d6d86c0a7f8d ("mm/balloon_compaction: redesign ballooned pages management") Reported-by: Vratislav Bendel vbendel@redhat.com Acked-by: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Acked-by: Rafael Aquini aquini@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com --- mm/migrate.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c index 4512afab46ac..402198816d1a 100644 --- a/mm/migrate.c +++ b/mm/migrate.c @@ -1135,10 +1135,13 @@ static int __unmap_and_move(struct page *page, struct page *newpage, * If migration is successful, decrease refcount of the newpage * which will not free the page because new page owner increased * refcounter. As well, if it is LRU page, add the page to LRU - * list in here. + * list in here. Use the old state of the isolated source page to + * determine if we migrated a LRU page. newpage was already unlocked + * and possibly modified by its owner - don't rely on the page + * state. */ if (rc == MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS) { - if (unlikely(__PageMovable(newpage))) + if (unlikely(!is_lru)) put_page(newpage); else putback_lru_page(newpage);