Re: [PATCH] page-flags: fix a crash at SetPageError(THP_SWAP)

[Huang\, Ying]

Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> writes:

> The commit bd4c82c22c36 ("mm, THP, swap: delay splitting THP after
> swapped out") supported writing THP to a swap device but forgot to
> upgrade an older commit df8c94d13c7e ("page-flags: define behavior of
> FS/IO-related flags on compound pages") which could trigger a crash
> during THP swapping out with DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS=y,
>
> kernel BUG at include/linux/page-flags.h:317!
>
> page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(1 && PageCompound(page))
> page:fffff3b2ec3a8000 refcount:512 mapcount:0 mapping:000000009eb0338c
> index:0x7f6e58200 head:fffff3b2ec3a8000 order:9 compound_mapcount:0
> compound_pincount:0
> anon flags:
> 0x45fffe0000d8454(uptodate|lru|workingset|owner_priv_1|writeback|head|reclaim|swapbacked)
>
> end_swap_bio_write()
>   SetPageError(page)
>     VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(1 && PageCompound(page))
>
> <IRQ>
> bio_endio+0x297/0x560
> dec_pending+0x218/0x430 [dm_mod]
> clone_endio+0xe4/0x2c0 [dm_mod]
> bio_endio+0x297/0x560
> blk_update_request+0x201/0x920
> scsi_end_request+0x6b/0x4b0
> scsi_io_completion+0x509/0x7e0
> scsi_finish_command+0x1ed/0x2a0
> scsi_softirq_done+0x1c9/0x1d0
> __blk_mqnterrupt+0xf/0x20
> </IRQ>
>
> Fix by checking PF_NO_TAIL in those places instead.
>
> Fixes: bd4c82c22c36 ("mm, THP, swap: delay splitting THP after swapped out")
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>

Good catch!  Thanks!

Acked-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  include/linux/page-flags.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
> index 1bf83c8fcaa7..77de28bfefb0 100644
> --- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
> +++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
> @@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ static inline int TestClearPage##uname(struct page *page) { return 0; }
>  
>  __PAGEFLAG(Locked, locked, PF_NO_TAIL)
>  PAGEFLAG(Waiters, waiters, PF_ONLY_HEAD) __CLEARPAGEFLAG(Waiters, waiters, PF_ONLY_HEAD)
> -PAGEFLAG(Error, error, PF_NO_COMPOUND) TESTCLEARFLAG(Error, error, PF_NO_COMPOUND)
> +PAGEFLAG(Error, error, PF_NO_TAIL) TESTCLEARFLAG(Error, error, PF_NO_TAIL)
>  PAGEFLAG(Referenced, referenced, PF_HEAD)
>  	TESTCLEARFLAG(Referenced, referenced, PF_HEAD)
>  	__SETPAGEFLAG(Referenced, referenced, PF_HEAD)