Re: linux-next: BUG: Bad page state in process ip6tables-save pfn:1499f4

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Tue Jun 27 2017 - 13:04:33 EST


On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 05:53:59PM +0100, Punit Agrawal wrote:
> "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 09:18:15AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> >> On 06/24/2017 05:08 PM, Andrei Vagin wrote:
> >> > On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 05:17:44PM -0700, Andrei Vagin wrote:
> >> >> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 11:21:03PM -0700, Andrei Vagin wrote:
> >> >>> Hello,
> >> >>>
> >> >>> We run CRIU tests for linux-next and today they triggered a kernel
> >> >>> bug. I want to mention that this kernel is built with kasan. This bug
> >> >>> was triggered in travis-ci. I can't reproduce it on my host. Without
> >> >>> kasan, kernel crashed but it is impossible to get a kernel log for
> >> >>> this case.
> >> >>
> >> >> We use this tree
> >> >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/
> >> >>
> >> >> This issue isn't reproduced on the akpm-base branch and
> >> >> it is reproduced each time on the akpm branch. I didn't
> >> >> have time today to bisect it, will do on Monday.
> >> >
> >> > c3aab7b2d4e8434d53bc81770442c14ccf0794a8 is the first bad commit
> >> >
> >> > commit c3aab7b2d4e8434d53bc81770442c14ccf0794a8
> >> > Merge: 849c34f 93a7379
> >> > Author: Stephen Rothwell
> >> > Date: Fri Jun 23 16:40:07 2017 +1000
> >> >
> >> > Merge branch 'akpm-current/current'
> >>
> >> Hm is it really the merge of mmotm itself and not one of the patches in
> >> mmotm?
> >> Anyway smells like THP, adding Kirill.
> >
> > Okay, it took a while to figure it out.
>
> I'm sorry you had to go chasing for this one again.
>
> I'd found the same issue while investigating an ltp failure on arm64[0] and
> sent a fix[1]. The fix is effectively the same as your patch below.
>
> Andrew picked up the patch from v5 posting and I can see it in today's
> next[2].
>
>
> [0] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2017-June/510318.html
> [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9766193/
> [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/mm/gup.c?h=next-20170627&id=d31945b5d4ab4490fb5f961dd5b066cc9f560eb3

Ah. Okay, no problem then.

But I think my fix is neater :)

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Kirill A. Shutemov