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    mm: fix crashes from deferred split racing folio migration · be9581ea
    Hugh Dickins authored
    Even on 6.10-rc6, I've been seeing elusive "Bad page state"s (often on
    flags when freeing, yet the flags shown are not bad: PG_locked had been
    set and cleared??), and VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_ref_count(page) == 0)s from
    deferred_split_scan()'s folio_put(), and a variety of other BUG and WARN
    symptoms implying double free by deferred split and large folio migration.
    
    6.7 commit 9bcef597 ("mm: memcg: fix split queue list crash when large
    folio migration") was right to fix the memcg-dependent locking broken in
    85ce2c51 ("memcontrol: only transfer the memcg data for migration"),
    but missed a subtlety of deferred_split_scan(): it moves folios to its own
    local list to work on them without split_queue_lock, during which time
    folio->_deferred_list is not empty, but even the "right" lock does nothing
    to secure the folio and the list it is on.
    
    Fortunately, deferred_split_scan() is careful to use folio_try_get(): so
    folio_migrate_mapping() can avoid the race by folio_undo_large_rmappable()
    while the old folio's reference count is temporarily frozen to 0 - adding
    such a freeze in the !mapping case too (originally, folio lock and
    unmapping and no swap cache left an anon folio unreachable, so no freezing
    was needed there: but the deferred split queue offers a way to reach it).
    
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/29c83d1a-11ca-b6c9-f92e-6ccb322af510@google.com
    Fixes: 9bcef597 ("mm: memcg: fix split queue list crash when large folio migration")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarBaolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
    Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
    Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
    Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
    Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
    Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
    Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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