[PATCH v2] khugepaged: hold invalidate_lock across collapse_file() readahead
From: Nguyen Ngoc Thang
Date: Sun Sep 13 2026 - 12:38:29 EST
collapse_file() calls page_cache_sync_readahead() to fault in missing
pages before collapsing them into a THP. That helper takes
mapping->invalidate_lock itself for the duration of the call, then
drops it -- but truncate (e.g. ext4_setattr() -> truncate_pagecache())
takes invalidate_lock and then waits on each page's folio lock while
holding it. If collapse_file() has already locked one of those folios
by the time truncate reaches it, and then tries to acquire
invalidate_lock again (e.g. on the first readahead call, since
invalidate_lock is not yet held at that point), the two paths can
deadlock/hang on each other's lock: truncate blocked on the folio lock
collapse holds, and collapse blocked waiting for invalidate_lock that
truncate holds.
Reproducing this over ~150,000 collapse iterations with truncate
racing concurrently reliably hits hung_task: blocked tasks within
about 20 seconds on an unpatched kernel.
Fix it by taking invalidate_lock_shared once for the whole scan, after
alloc_charge_folio() succeeds and before locking any folio, and using
page_cache_ra_unbounded() directly in the readahead call site instead
of page_cache_sync_readahead(), since the latter would try to retake
the lock we already hold. page_cache_ra_unbounded() does not clamp to
EOF like the helper it replaces, so clamp the requested range
explicitly.
730633f0b7f9 added invalidate_lock acquisition around readahead but
missed collapse_file(), which already locks pages while calling
readahead; later filesystem conversions made the deadlock reachable by
taking invalidate_lock before waiting on page locks during truncate.
Reported-by: syzbot+16bf7cd0ebeb1de93aa5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=16bf7cd0ebeb1de93aa5
Fixes: 730633f0b7f9 ("mm: Protect operations adding pages to page cache with invalidate_lock")
Tested-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Nguyen Ngoc Thang <ngocthang2710.1999@xxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
- Take invalidate_lock after alloc_charge_folio() succeeds instead of
before, so allocation/charging stays outside the critical section,
and skip the unlock on the allocation-failure path (Lance Yang)
- Add Fixes and Cc: stable tags (Lance Yang)
- Add Tested-by (Lance Yang)
mm/khugepaged.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 11ff98d55c76..a5fcafd57505 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -2257,6 +2257,7 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
enum scan_result result = SCAN_SUCCEED;
int nr_none = 0;
bool is_shmem = shmem_file(file);
+ bool need_unlock = false;
/*
* MADV_COLLAPSE ignores shmem huge config, so do not check shmem
@@ -2271,6 +2272,15 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
if (result != SCAN_SUCCEED)
goto out;
+ /*
+ * Take invalidate_lock before any folio lock: the readahead below
+ * needs it, and truncate holds it while waiting on folio locks.
+ */
+ if (!is_shmem) {
+ filemap_invalidate_lock_shared(mapping);
+ need_unlock = true;
+ }
+
mapping_set_update(&xas, mapping);
__folio_set_locked(new_folio);
@@ -2337,10 +2347,20 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
}
} else { /* !is_shmem */
if (!folio || xa_is_value(folio)) {
+ DEFINE_READAHEAD(ractl, file, &file->f_ra,
+ mapping, index);
+ pgoff_t eof = DIV_ROUND_UP(i_size_read(mapping->host),
+ PAGE_SIZE);
+
xas_unlock_irq(&xas);
- page_cache_sync_readahead(mapping, &file->f_ra,
- file, index,
- end - index);
+ /*
+ * invalidate_lock held above; don't retake it.
+ * page_cache_ra_unbounded(), unlike the readahead
+ * helper this replaces, does not clamp to EOF.
+ */
+ if (index < eof)
+ page_cache_ra_unbounded(&ractl,
+ min(end, eof) - index, 0);
/* drain lru cache to help folio_isolate_lru() */
lru_add_drain();
folio = filemap_lock_folio(mapping, index);
@@ -2672,6 +2692,8 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
folio_unlock(new_folio);
folio_put(new_folio);
out:
+ if (need_unlock)
+ filemap_invalidate_unlock_shared(mapping);
VM_BUG_ON(!list_empty(&pagelist));
trace_mm_khugepaged_collapse_file(mm, new_folio, index, addr, is_shmem, file, HPAGE_PMD_NR, result);
return result;
--
2.43.0