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| author | Mel Gorman <[email protected]> | 2010-05-24 14:32:19 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2010-05-25 08:06:58 -0700 |
| commit | 67b9509b2c68ae38cecb83a239881cb0ddf087dc (patch) | |
| tree | a8cee4f4bec57ab44a993ce81df2a10a4980f0f8 /tools/perf/scripts/python/check-perf-trace.py | |
| parent | 7f60c214fd3a360461f3286c6908084f7f8b1950 (diff) | |
mm: migration: do not try to migrate unmapped anonymous pages
rmap_walk_anon() was triggering errors in memory compaction that look like
use-after-free errors. The problem is that between the page being
isolated from the LRU and rcu_read_lock() being taken, the mapcount of the
page dropped to 0 and the anon_vma gets freed. This can happen during
memory compaction if pages being migrated belong to a process that exits
before migration completes. Hence, the use-after-free race looks like
1. Page isolated for migration
2. Process exits
3. page_mapcount(page) drops to zero so anon_vma was no longer reliable
4. unmap_and_move() takes the rcu_lock but the anon_vma is already garbage
4. call try_to_unmap, looks up tha anon_vma and "locks" it but the lock
is garbage.
This patch checks the mapcount after the rcu lock is taken. If the
mapcount is zero, the anon_vma is assumed to be freed and no further
action is taken.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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