From f18194275c39835cb84563500995e0d503a32d9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:12:54 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: fix hang on anon_vma->root->lock After several hours, kbuild tests hang with anon_vma_prepare() spinning on a newly allocated anon_vma's lock - on a box with CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU=y (which makes this very much more likely, but it could happen without). The ever-subtle page_lock_anon_vma() now needs a further twist: since anon_vma_prepare() and anon_vma_fork() are liable to change the ->root of a reused anon_vma structure at any moment, page_lock_anon_vma() needs to check page_mapped() again before succeeding, otherwise page_unlock_anon_vma() might address a different root->lock. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/rmap.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c index 87b9e8ad4509..f6f0d2dda2ea 100644 --- a/mm/rmap.c +++ b/mm/rmap.c @@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ void __init anon_vma_init(void) */ struct anon_vma *page_lock_anon_vma(struct page *page) { - struct anon_vma *anon_vma; + struct anon_vma *anon_vma, *root_anon_vma; unsigned long anon_mapping; rcu_read_lock(); @@ -327,8 +327,21 @@ struct anon_vma *page_lock_anon_vma(struct page *page) goto out; anon_vma = (struct anon_vma *) (anon_mapping - PAGE_MAPPING_ANON); - anon_vma_lock(anon_vma); - return anon_vma; + root_anon_vma = ACCESS_ONCE(anon_vma->root); + spin_lock(&root_anon_vma->lock); + + /* + * If this page is still mapped, then its anon_vma cannot have been + * freed. But if it has been unmapped, we have no security against + * the anon_vma structure being freed and reused (for another anon_vma: + * SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU guarantees that - so the spin_lock above cannot + * corrupt): with anon_vma_prepare() or anon_vma_fork() redirecting + * anon_vma->root before page_unlock_anon_vma() is called to unlock. + */ + if (page_mapped(page)) + return anon_vma; + + spin_unlock(&root_anon_vma->lock); out: rcu_read_unlock(); return NULL;