From 40a899ed16486455f964e46d1af31fd4fded21c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zi Yan Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 16:11:12 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] mm: migrate: fix an incorrect call of prep_transhuge_page() MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/20/411, Andrea reported that during memory hotplug/hot remove prep_transhuge_page() is called incorrectly on non-THP pages for migration, when THP is on but THP migration is not enabled. This leads to a bad state of target pages for migration. By inspecting the code, if called on a non-THP, prep_transhuge_page() will 1) change the value of the mapping of (page + 2), since it is used for THP deferred list; 2) change the lru value of (page + 1), since it is used for THP's dtor. Both can lead to data corruption of these two pages. Andrea said: "Pragmatically and from the point of view of the memory_hotplug subsys, the effect is a kernel crash when pages are being migrated during a memory hot remove offline and migration target pages are found in a bad state" This patch fixes it by only calling prep_transhuge_page() when we are certain that the target page is THP. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171121021855.50525-1-zi.yan@sent.com Fixes: 8135d8926c08 ("mm: memory_hotplug: memory hotremove supports thp migration") Signed-off-by: Zi Yan Reported-by: Andrea Reale Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" Cc: [4.14] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/migrate.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/migrate.h b/include/linux/migrate.h index 895ec0c4942e..a2246cf670ba 100644 --- a/include/linux/migrate.h +++ b/include/linux/migrate.h @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static inline struct page *new_page_nodemask(struct page *page, new_page = __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_mask, order, preferred_nid, nodemask); - if (new_page && PageTransHuge(page)) + if (new_page && PageTransHuge(new_page)) prep_transhuge_page(new_page); return new_page;