[PATCH v4] mm,thp: recheck each page before collapsing file THP

From: Song Liu
Date: Tue Oct 22 2019 - 15:10:52 EST


In collapse_file(), for !is_shmem case, current check cannot guarantee
the locked page is up-to-date. Specifically, xas_unlock_irq() should not
be called before lock_page() and get_page(); and it is necessary to
recheck PageUptodate() after locking the page.

With this bug and CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS=y, madvise(HUGE)'ed .text
may contain corrupted data. This is because khugepaged mistakenly
collapses some not up-to-date sub pages into a huge page, and assumes the
huge page is up-to-date. This will NOT corrupt data in the disk, because
the page is read-only and never written back. Fix this by properly
checking PageUptodate() after locking the page. This check replaces
"VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageUptodate(page), page);".

Also, move PageDirty() check after locking the page. Current khugepaged
only collapse read-only .text. Therefore, the page could only be dirty
if it hasn't been flushed since first write. In such case, calls
filemap_flush() and defer the collapse.

Fixes: 99cb0dbd47a1 ("mm,thp: add read-only THP support for (non-shmem) FS")
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx>

---
Changes v1 => v2:
Rearrange the checks per feedback from Johannes, Rik, and Kirill.

Changes v2 => v3:
Remove redudant checks before trylock_page().

Changes v3 => v4:
Rewrite commit log.
Trigger filemap_flush() for PageDirty() case. This covers one-off
situation, where the file hasn't been flushed since first write.
---
mm/khugepaged.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 0a1b4b484ac5..cd480dce92c6 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -1601,17 +1601,6 @@ static void collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm,
result = SCAN_FAIL;
goto xa_unlocked;
}
- } else if (!PageUptodate(page)) {
- xas_unlock_irq(&xas);
- wait_on_page_locked(page);
- if (!trylock_page(page)) {
- result = SCAN_PAGE_LOCK;
- goto xa_unlocked;
- }
- get_page(page);
- } else if (PageDirty(page)) {
- result = SCAN_FAIL;
- goto xa_locked;
} else if (trylock_page(page)) {
get_page(page);
xas_unlock_irq(&xas);
@@ -1626,7 +1615,12 @@ static void collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm,
* without racing with truncate.
*/
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page);
- VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageUptodate(page), page);
+
+ /* double check the page is up to date */
+ if (unlikely(!PageUptodate(page))) {
+ result = SCAN_FAIL;
+ goto out_unlock;
+ }

/*
* If file was truncated then extended, or hole-punched, before
@@ -1642,6 +1636,24 @@ static void collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm,
goto out_unlock;
}

+ if (!is_shmem && PageDirty(page)) {
+ /*
+ * khugepaged only works on read-only fd, so this
+ * page is dirty because it hasn't been flushed
+ * since first write. There won't be new dirty
+ * pages.
+ *
+ * Trigger async flush here and hope the writeback
+ * is done when khugepaged revisits this page.
+ *
+ * This is a one-off situation. We are not forcing
+ * writeback in loop.
+ */
+ filemap_flush(mapping);
+ result = SCAN_FAIL;
+ goto out_unlock;
+ }
+
if (isolate_lru_page(page)) {
result = SCAN_DEL_PAGE_LRU;
goto out_unlock;
--
2.17.1