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From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org, mhocko@kernel.org, vdavydov.dev@gmail.com,
	 akpm@linux-foundation.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org,  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com,  yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com,
	alexander.duyck@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Patch v2] mm: thp: grab the lock before manipulation defer list
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 10:52:01 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2001091051160.57374@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200109143054.13203-1-richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>

On Thu, 9 Jan 2020, Wei Yang wrote:

> As all the other places, we grab the lock before manipulate the defer list.
> Current implementation may face a race condition.
> 
> For example, the potential race would be:
> 
>     CPU1                      CPU2
>     mem_cgroup_move_account   split_huge_page_to_list
>       !list_empty
>                                 lock
>                                 !list_empty
>                                 list_del
>                                 unlock
>       lock
>       # !list_empty might not hold anymore
>       list_del_init
>       unlock
> 
> When this sequence happens, the list_del_init() in
> mem_cgroup_move_account() would crash if CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST since the
> page is already been removed by list_del in split_huge_page_to_list().
> 
> Fixes: 87eaceb3faa5 ("mm: thp: make deferred split shrinker memcg aware")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

Thanks Wei!

Andrew, I'd also suggest:

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.4+


  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-09 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-09 14:30 Wei Yang
2020-01-09 18:52 ` David Rientjes [this message]
2020-01-09 18:58 ` Michal Hocko
2020-01-11  0:03 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-01-12  2:28   ` Wei Yang
2020-01-12 22:57     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-01-13  0:44       ` Wei Yang
2020-01-13  7:36         ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-01-13  8:23           ` Wei Yang
2020-01-14  9:31   ` Michal Hocko
2020-01-14 10:31     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-01-14 10:59       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-01-14 20:57         ` David Rientjes
2020-01-15  1:19           ` Wei Yang
2020-01-15  1:07         ` Wei Yang
2020-01-15  3:26           ` David Rientjes

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