Commit fb59e9f1 authored by Hugh Dickins's avatar Hugh Dickins Committed by Linus Torvalds

memcg: fix oops on NULL lru list

While testing force_empty, during an exit_mmap, __mem_cgroup_remove_list
called from mem_cgroup_uncharge_page oopsed on a NULL pointer in the lru list.
 I couldn't see what racing tasks on other cpus were doing, but surmise that
another must have been in mem_cgroup_charge_common on the same page, between
its unlock_page_cgroup and spin_lock_irqsave near done (thanks to that kzalloc
which I'd almost changed to a kmalloc).

Normally such a race cannot happen, the ref_cnt prevents it, the final
uncharge cannot race with the initial charge.  But force_empty buggers the
ref_cnt, that's what it's all about; and thereafter forced pages are
vulnerable to races such as this (just think of a shared page also mapped into
an mm of another mem_cgroup than that just emptied).  And remain vulnerable
until they're freed indefinitely later.

This patch just fixes the oops by moving the unlock_page_cgroups down below
adding to and removing from the list (only possible given the previous patch);
and while we're at it, we might as well make it an invariant that
page->page_cgroup is always set while pc is on lru.

But this behaviour of force_empty seems highly unsatisfactory to me: why have
a ref_cnt if we always have to cope with it being violated (as in the earlier
page migration patch).  We may prefer force_empty to move pages to an orphan
mem_cgroup (could be the root, but better not), from which other cgroups could
recover them; we might need to reverse the locking again; but no time now for
such concerns.
Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 9b3c0a07
...@@ -623,13 +623,13 @@ static int mem_cgroup_charge_common(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm, ...@@ -623,13 +623,13 @@ static int mem_cgroup_charge_common(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm,
goto retry; goto retry;
} }
page_assign_page_cgroup(page, pc); page_assign_page_cgroup(page, pc);
unlock_page_cgroup(page);
mz = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc); mz = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc);
spin_lock_irqsave(&mz->lru_lock, flags); spin_lock_irqsave(&mz->lru_lock, flags);
__mem_cgroup_add_list(pc); __mem_cgroup_add_list(pc);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mz->lru_lock, flags); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mz->lru_lock, flags);
unlock_page_cgroup(page);
done: done:
return 0; return 0;
out: out:
...@@ -677,14 +677,14 @@ void mem_cgroup_uncharge_page(struct page *page) ...@@ -677,14 +677,14 @@ void mem_cgroup_uncharge_page(struct page *page)
VM_BUG_ON(pc->ref_cnt <= 0); VM_BUG_ON(pc->ref_cnt <= 0);
if (--(pc->ref_cnt) == 0) { if (--(pc->ref_cnt) == 0) {
page_assign_page_cgroup(page, NULL);
unlock_page_cgroup(page);
mz = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc); mz = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc);
spin_lock_irqsave(&mz->lru_lock, flags); spin_lock_irqsave(&mz->lru_lock, flags);
__mem_cgroup_remove_list(pc); __mem_cgroup_remove_list(pc);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mz->lru_lock, flags); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mz->lru_lock, flags);
page_assign_page_cgroup(page, NULL);
unlock_page_cgroup(page);
mem = pc->mem_cgroup; mem = pc->mem_cgroup;
res_counter_uncharge(&mem->res, PAGE_SIZE); res_counter_uncharge(&mem->res, PAGE_SIZE);
css_put(&mem->css); css_put(&mem->css);
...@@ -736,23 +736,24 @@ void mem_cgroup_page_migration(struct page *page, struct page *newpage) ...@@ -736,23 +736,24 @@ void mem_cgroup_page_migration(struct page *page, struct page *newpage)
return; return;
} }
page_assign_page_cgroup(page, NULL);
unlock_page_cgroup(page);
mz = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc); mz = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc);
spin_lock_irqsave(&mz->lru_lock, flags); spin_lock_irqsave(&mz->lru_lock, flags);
__mem_cgroup_remove_list(pc); __mem_cgroup_remove_list(pc);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mz->lru_lock, flags); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mz->lru_lock, flags);
page_assign_page_cgroup(page, NULL);
unlock_page_cgroup(page);
pc->page = newpage; pc->page = newpage;
lock_page_cgroup(newpage); lock_page_cgroup(newpage);
page_assign_page_cgroup(newpage, pc); page_assign_page_cgroup(newpage, pc);
unlock_page_cgroup(newpage);
mz = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc); mz = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc);
spin_lock_irqsave(&mz->lru_lock, flags); spin_lock_irqsave(&mz->lru_lock, flags);
__mem_cgroup_add_list(pc); __mem_cgroup_add_list(pc);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mz->lru_lock, flags); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mz->lru_lock, flags);
unlock_page_cgroup(newpage);
} }
/* /*
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