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mm: thp: fix MADV_REMOVE deadlock on shmem THP
authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Fri, 5 Feb 2021 02:32:31 +0000 (18:32 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 08:21:08 +0000 (09:21 +0100)
commit081438440a6e0787d0e4c933bc9e447ac5d217bb
tree8f6acb07bb8c1364c75d543defc0acab402b0b31
parent6bf5461ae968b870f81c813a880e0e3a2684dfc1
mm: thp: fix MADV_REMOVE deadlock on shmem THP

commit 1c2f67308af4c102b4e1e6cd6f69819ae59408e0 upstream.

Sergey reported deadlock between kswapd correctly doing its usual
lock_page(page) followed by down_read(page->mapping->i_mmap_rwsem), and
madvise(MADV_REMOVE) on an madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) area doing
down_write(page->mapping->i_mmap_rwsem) followed by lock_page(page).

This happened when shmem_fallocate(punch hole)'s unmap_mapping_range()
reaches zap_pmd_range()'s call to __split_huge_pmd().  The same deadlock
could occur when partially truncating a mapped huge tmpfs file, or using
fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) on it.

__split_huge_pmd()'s page lock was added in 5.8, to make sure that any
concurrent use of reuse_swap_page() (holding page lock) could not catch
the anon THP's mapcounts and swapcounts while they were being split.

Fortunately, reuse_swap_page() is never applied to a shmem or file THP
(not even by khugepaged, which checks PageSwapCache before calling), and
anonymous THPs are never created in shmem or file areas: so that
__split_huge_pmd()'s page lock can only be necessary for anonymous THPs,
on which there is no risk of deadlock with i_mmap_rwsem.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.2101161409470.2022@eggly.anvils
Fixes: c444eb564fb1 ("mm: thp: make the THP mapcount atomic against __split_huge_pmd_locked()")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/huge_memory.c