From: "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org>
To: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org,
syzbot+2d9c96466c978346b55f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] migrate: Correct lock ordering for hugetlb file folios
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2026 14:50:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <509ac447-e5a7-4cba-86b8-e9c0e72fc93c@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260109041345.3863089-2-willy@infradead.org>
On 1/9/26 05:13, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> Syzbot has found a deadlock (analyzed by Lance Yang):
>
> 1) Task (5749): Holds folio_lock, then tries to acquire i_mmap_rwsem(read lock).
> 2) Task (5754): Holds i_mmap_rwsem(write lock), then tries to acquire
> folio_lock.
>
> migrate_pages()
> -> migrate_hugetlbs()
> -> unmap_and_move_huge_page() <- Takes folio_lock!
> -> remove_migration_ptes()
> -> __rmap_walk_file()
> -> i_mmap_lock_read() <- Waits for i_mmap_rwsem(read lock)!
>
> hugetlbfs_fallocate()
> -> hugetlbfs_punch_hole() <- Takes i_mmap_rwsem(write lock)!
> -> hugetlbfs_zero_partial_page()
> -> filemap_lock_hugetlb_folio()
> -> filemap_lock_folio()
> -> __filemap_get_folio <- Waits for folio_lock!
As raised in the other patch I stumbled over first:
We now handle file-backed folios correctly I think. Could we somehow
also be in trouble for anon folios? Because there, we'd still take the
rmap lock after grabbing the folio lock.
>
> The migration path is the one taking locks in the wrong order according
> to the documentation at the top of mm/rmap.c. So expand the scope of the
> existing i_mmap_lock to cover the calls to remove_migration_ptes() too.
>
> This is (mostly) how it used to be after commit c0d0381ade79. That was
> removed by 336bf30eb765 for both file & anon hugetlb pages when it should
> only have been removed for anon hugetlb pages.
>
> Fixes: 336bf30eb765 (hugetlbfs: fix anon huge page migration race)
> Reported-by: syzbot+2d9c96466c978346b55f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68e9715a.050a0220.1186a4.000d.GAE@google.com
> Debugged-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> mm/migrate.c | 12 ++++++------
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
> index 5169f9717f60..4688b9e38cd2 100644
> --- a/mm/migrate.c
> +++ b/mm/migrate.c
> @@ -1458,6 +1458,7 @@ static int unmap_and_move_huge_page(new_folio_t get_new_folio,
> int page_was_mapped = 0;
> struct anon_vma *anon_vma = NULL;
> struct address_space *mapping = NULL;
> + enum ttu_flags ttu = 0;
>
> if (folio_ref_count(src) == 1) {
> /* page was freed from under us. So we are done. */
> @@ -1498,8 +1499,6 @@ static int unmap_and_move_huge_page(new_folio_t get_new_folio,
> goto put_anon;
>
> if (folio_mapped(src)) {
> - enum ttu_flags ttu = 0;
> -
> if (!folio_test_anon(src)) {
> /*
> * In shared mappings, try_to_unmap could potentially
> @@ -1516,16 +1515,17 @@ static int unmap_and_move_huge_page(new_folio_t get_new_folio,
>
> try_to_migrate(src, ttu);
> page_was_mapped = 1;
> -
> - if (ttu & TTU_RMAP_LOCKED)
> - i_mmap_unlock_write(mapping);
> }
>
> if (!folio_mapped(src))
> rc = move_to_new_folio(dst, src, mode);
>
> if (page_was_mapped)
> - remove_migration_ptes(src, !rc ? dst : src, 0);
> + remove_migration_ptes(src, !rc ? dst : src,
> + ttu ? RMP_LOCKED : 0);
(ttu & TTU_RMAP_LOCKED) ? RMP_LOCKED : 0)
Would be cleaner, but I see how you clean that up in #2. :)
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
--
Cheers
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-09 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-09 4:13 [PATCH 0/2] migrate: Fix up hugetlb file folio handling Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2026-01-09 4:13 ` [PATCH 1/2] migrate: Correct lock ordering for hugetlb file folios Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2026-01-09 4:32 ` Lance Yang
2026-01-09 13:50 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) [this message]
2026-01-09 14:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-01-09 14:57 ` Zi Yan
2026-01-09 4:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] migrate: Replace RMP_ flags with TTU_ flags Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2026-01-09 13:52 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-09 14:44 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-09 14:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-01-09 17:20 ` Zi Yan
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