[PATCH v2 2/5] mm/hwpoison: fix PageHWPoison test/set race

From: Wanpeng Li
Date: Mon Aug 10 2015 - 07:56:20 EST


There is a race between madvise_hwpoison path and memory_failure:

CPU0 CPU1

madvise_hwpoison
get_user_pages_fast
PageHWPoison check (false)
memory_failure
TestSetPageHWPoison
soft_offline_page
PageHWPoison check (true)
return -EBUSY (without put_page)

Suggested-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory-failure.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 56b8a71..e0eb7ab 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -1704,6 +1704,8 @@ int soft_offline_page(struct page *page, int flags)

if (PageHWPoison(page)) {
pr_info("soft offline: %#lx page already poisoned\n", pfn);
+ if (flags & MF_COUNT_INCREASED)
+ put_page(page);
return -EBUSY;
}
if (!PageHuge(page) && PageTransHuge(hpage)) {
--
1.7.1

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