[3.5.y.z extended stable] Patch "mm/memory-failure.c: recheck PageHuge() after hugetlb page migrate" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Feb 5 10:37:34 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    mm/memory-failure.c: recheck PageHuge() after hugetlb page migrate

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 94061399aff637a41401309991a11cffa2726707 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo at huawei.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:08:54 -0800
Subject: mm/memory-failure.c: recheck PageHuge() after hugetlb page migrate
 successfully

commit a49ecbcd7b0d5a1cda7d60e03df402dd0ef76ac8 upstream.

After a successful hugetlb page migration by soft offline, the source
page will either be freed into hugepage_freelists or buddy(over-commit
page).  If page is in buddy, page_hstate(page) will be NULL.  It will
hit a NULL pointer dereference in dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page().

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000058
  IP: [<ffffffff81163761>] dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page+0x131/0x1d0
  PGD c23762067 PUD c24be2067 PMD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP

So check PageHuge(page) after call migrate_pages() successfully.

Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo at huawei.com>
Tested-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi at ah.jp.nec.com>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi at ah.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
[wujg: backport to 3.4:
 - adjust context
 - s/num_poisoned_pages/mce_bad_pages/]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 mm/memory-failure.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 1bf1092..5eb3f727 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -1447,10 +1447,18 @@ static int soft_offline_huge_page(struct page *page, int flags)
 		return ret;
 	}
 done:
-	if (!PageHWPoison(hpage))
-		atomic_long_add(1 << compound_trans_order(hpage), &mce_bad_pages);
-	set_page_hwpoison_huge_page(hpage);
-	dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page(hpage);
+	/* overcommit hugetlb page will be freed to buddy */
+	if (PageHuge(hpage)) {
+		if (!PageHWPoison(hpage))
+			atomic_long_add(1 << compound_trans_order(hpage),
+					&mce_bad_pages);
+		set_page_hwpoison_huge_page(hpage);
+		dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page(hpage);
+	} else {
+		SetPageHWPoison(page);
+		atomic_long_inc(&mce_bad_pages);
+	}
+
 	/* keep elevated page count for bad page */
 	return ret;
 }
--
1.8.3.2





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