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From: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
To: yanghui <yanghui.def@bytedance.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	 Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v3] mm/mempolicy: fix a race between offset_il_node and mpol_rebind_task
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2021 11:53:27 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMZfGtVE2eAMwWLzwSEp6g7hOReu++hCa00OuaPur-24UQHrhA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210906034658.48721-1-yanghui.def@bytedance.com>

On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 11:47 AM yanghui <yanghui.def@bytedance.com> wrote:
>
> 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>

LGTM.

Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>


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