xfs: clear _XBF_PAGES from buffers when readahead page
authorDarrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Thu, 26 Jan 2017 04:24:57 +0000 (20:24 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 30 Mar 2017 07:35:19 +0000 (09:35 +0200)
commit6d43e485e0067b682466eb4e3aff8ff9a6822966
tree294bd1ef770350fc8afa2e97731bcf8b782c3bd1
parentf154de03f4167664808b002495a877dbe91dd798
xfs: clear _XBF_PAGES from buffers when readahead page

commit 2aa6ba7b5ad3189cc27f14540aa2f57f0ed8df4b upstream.

If we try to allocate memory pages to back an xfs_buf that we're trying
to read, it's possible that we'll be so short on memory that the page
allocation fails.  For a blocking read we'll just wait, but for
readahead we simply dump all the pages we've collected so far.

Unfortunately, after dumping the pages we neglect to clear the
_XBF_PAGES state, which means that the subsequent call to xfs_buf_free
thinks that b_pages still points to pages we own.  It then double-frees
the b_pages pages.

This results in screaming about negative page refcounts from the memory
manager, which xfs oughtn't be triggering.  To reproduce this case,
mount a filesystem where the size of the inodes far outweighs the
availalble memory (a ~500M inode filesystem on a VM with 300MB memory
did the trick here) and run bulkstat in parallel with other memory
eating processes to put a huge load on the system.  The "check summary"
phase of xfs_scrub also works for this purpose.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Ivan Kozik <ivan@ludios.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c