Re: mm, something wring in page_lock_anon_vma_read()?

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 05/20/2017 05:01 AM, zhong jiang wrote:
> On 2017/5/20 10:40, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>> On Sat, 20 May 2017, Xishi Qiu wrote:
>>> Here is a bug report form redhat: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1305620
>>> And I meet the bug too. However it is hard to reproduce, and 
>>> 624483f3ea82598("mm: rmap: fix use-after-free in __put_anon_vma") is not help.
>>>
>>> From the vmcore, it seems that the page is still mapped(_mapcount=0 and _count=2),
>>> and the value of mapping is a valid address(mapping = 0xffff8801b3e2a101),
>>> but anon_vma has been corrupted.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>> Sorry, no.  I assume that _mapcount has been misaccounted, for example
>> a pte mapped in on top of another pte; but cannot begin tell you where
>> in Red Hat's kernel-3.10.0-229.4.2.el7 that might happen.
>>
>> Hugh
>>
>> .
>>
> Hi, Hugh
> 
> I find the following message from the dmesg.
> 
> [26068.316592] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff8800a7de2d80 idx:1 val:1
> 
> I can prove that the __mapcount is misaccount.  when task is exited. the rmap
> still exist.

Check if the kernel in question contains this commit: ad33bb04b2a6 ("mm:
thp: fix SMP race condition between THP page fault and MADV_DONTNEED")

> Thanks
> zhongjiang
> 
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