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mm/mempolicy: fix a race between offset_il_node and mpol_rebind_task
Servers happened below panic:
Kernel version:5.4.56
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000002c48
RIP: 0010:__next_zones_zonelist+0x1d/0x40
[264003.977696] RAX: 0000000000002c40 RBX: 0000000000100dca RCX: 0000000000000014
[264003.977872] Call Trace:
[264003.977888] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x277/0x310
[264003.977908] alloc_page_interleave+0x13/0x70
[264003.977926] handle_mm_fault+0xf99/0x1390
[264003.977951] __do_page_fault+0x288/0x500
[264003.977979] ? schedule+0x39/0xa0
[264003.977994] do_page_fault+0x30/0x110
[264003.978010] page_fault+0x3e/0x50
The reason of panic is that MAX_NUMNODES is passd in the third parameter
in function __alloc_pages_nodemask(preferred_nid). So if to access
zonelist->zoneref->zone_idx in __next_zones_zonelist the panic will happen.
In offset_il_node(), first_node() return nid from pol->v.nodes, after
this other threads may changed pol->v.nodes before next_node().
This race condition will let next_node return MAX_NUMNODES.So put
pol->nodes in a local variable.
The race condition is between offset_il_node and cpuset_change_task_nodemask:
CPU0: CPU1:
alloc_pages_vma()
interleave_nid(pol,)
offset_il_node(pol,)
first_node(pol->v.nodes) cpuset_change_task_nodemask
//nodes==0xc mpol_rebind_task
mpol_rebind_policy
mpol_rebind_nodemask(pol,nodes)
//nodes==0x3
next_node(nid, pol->v.nodes)//return MAX_NUMNODES
Signed-off-by: yanghui <yanghui.def@bytedance.com>- Loading branch information