Re: [PATCH v1] hugetlb: pass head page to remove_hugetlb_page()

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu May 27 2021 - 02:59:03 EST


On Thu 27-05-21 08:52:57, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> From: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx>
>
> When memory_failure() or soft_offline_page() is called on a tail page of
> some hugetlb page, "BUG: unable to handle page fault" error can be
> triggered.
>
> remove_hugetlb_page() dereferences page->lru, so it's assumed that the
> page points to a head page, but one of the caller,
> dissolve_free_huge_page(), provides remove_hugetlb_page() with 'page'
> which could be a tail page. So pass 'head' to it, instead.
>
> Fixes: 6eb4e88a6d27 ("hugetlb: create remove_hugetlb_page() to separate functionality")
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx>

This is really nasty and easy to overlook. I have completely missed that
when reviewing and I do remember checking for head vs page as there is
quite some non trivial handling of both here.

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

> ---
> mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git v5.13-rc3/mm/hugetlb.c v5.13-rc3_patched/mm/hugetlb.c
> index 95918f410c0f..470f7b5b437e 100644
> --- v5.13-rc3/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ v5.13-rc3_patched/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -1793,7 +1793,7 @@ int dissolve_free_huge_page(struct page *page)
> SetPageHWPoison(page);
> ClearPageHWPoison(head);
> }
> - remove_hugetlb_page(h, page, false);
> + remove_hugetlb_page(h, head, false);
> h->max_huge_pages--;
> spin_unlock_irq(&hugetlb_lock);
> update_and_free_page(h, head);
> --
> 2.25.1

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs