[PATCH] z3fold: claim page in the beginning of free

From: Vitaly Wool
Date: Thu Sep 26 2019 - 04:48:50 EST


There's a really hard to reproduce race in z3fold between
z3fold_free() and z3fold_reclaim_page(). z3fold_reclaim_page()
can claim the page after z3fold_free() has checked if the page
was claimed and z3fold_free() will then schedule this page for
compaction which may in turn lead to random page faults (since
that page would have been reclaimed by then). Fix that by
claiming page in the beginning of z3fold_free().

Reported-by: Markus Linnala <markus.linnala@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/z3fold.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/z3fold.c b/mm/z3fold.c
index 05bdf90646e7..01b87c78b984 100644
--- a/mm/z3fold.c
+++ b/mm/z3fold.c
@@ -998,9 +998,11 @@ static void z3fold_free(struct z3fold_pool *pool, unsigned long handle)
struct z3fold_header *zhdr;
struct page *page;
enum buddy bud;
+ bool page_claimed;

zhdr = handle_to_z3fold_header(handle);
page = virt_to_page(zhdr);
+ page_claimed = test_and_set_bit(PAGE_CLAIMED, &page->private);

if (test_bit(PAGE_HEADLESS, &page->private)) {
/* if a headless page is under reclaim, just leave.
@@ -1008,7 +1010,7 @@ static void z3fold_free(struct z3fold_pool *pool, unsigned long handle)
* has not been set before, we release this page
* immediately so we don't care about its value any more.
*/
- if (!test_and_set_bit(PAGE_CLAIMED, &page->private)) {
+ if (!page_claimed) {
spin_lock(&pool->lock);
list_del(&page->lru);
spin_unlock(&pool->lock);
@@ -1044,7 +1046,7 @@ static void z3fold_free(struct z3fold_pool *pool, unsigned long handle)
atomic64_dec(&pool->pages_nr);
return;
}
- if (test_bit(PAGE_CLAIMED, &page->private)) {
+ if (page_claimed) {
z3fold_page_unlock(zhdr);
return;
}
--
2.17.1