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authorVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>2015-06-24 16:56:56 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-06-24 17:49:42 -0700
commit414e2fb8ce5a999571c21eb2ca4d66e53ddce800 (patch)
tree6b0ad9177128cffd87951166bd3d3e7355f1d636 /mm
parent2491ffee9e66edc2a6ff5ddb49118377257c0014 (diff)
rmap: fix theoretical race between do_wp_page and shrink_active_list
As noted by Paul the compiler is free to store a temporary result in a variable on stack, heap or global unless it is explicitly marked as volatile, see: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/n4455.html#sample-optimizations This can result in a race between do_wp_page() and shrink_active_list() as follows. In do_wp_page() we can call page_move_anon_rmap(), which sets page->mapping as follows: anon_vma = (void *) anon_vma + PAGE_MAPPING_ANON; page->mapping = (struct address_space *) anon_vma; The page in question may be on an LRU list, because nowhere in do_wp_page() we remove it from the list, neither do we take any LRU related locks. Although the page is locked, shrink_active_list() can still call page_referenced() on it concurrently, because the latter does not require an anonymous page to be locked: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- do_wp_page shrink_active_list lock_page page_referenced PageAnon->yes, so skip trylock_page page_move_anon_rmap page->mapping = anon_vma rmap_walk PageAnon->no rmap_walk_file BUG page->mapping += PAGE_MAPPING_ANON This patch fixes this race by explicitly forbidding the compiler to split page->mapping store in page_move_anon_rmap() with the aid of WRITE_ONCE. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment, per Minchan] Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/rmap.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 24dd3f9fee27..9f47f152b01e 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -950,7 +950,12 @@ void page_move_anon_rmap(struct page *page,
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page->index != linear_page_index(vma, address), page);
anon_vma = (void *) anon_vma + PAGE_MAPPING_ANON;
- page->mapping = (struct address_space *) anon_vma;
+ /*
+ * Ensure that anon_vma and the PAGE_MAPPING_ANON bit are written
+ * simultaneously, so a concurrent reader (eg page_referenced()'s
+ * PageAnon()) will not see one without the other.
+ */
+ WRITE_ONCE(page->mapping, (struct address_space *) anon_vma);
}
/**