From 88f5004430babb836cfce886d5d54c82166f8ba4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yongseok Koh Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:33:49 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] vmalloc: remove BUG_ON due to racy counting of VM_LAZY_FREE In free_unmap_area_noflush(), va->flags is marked as VM_LAZY_FREE first, and then vmap_lazy_nr is increased atomically. But, in __purge_vmap_area_lazy(), while traversing of vmap_are_list, nr is counted by checking VM_LAZY_FREE is set to va->flags. After counting the variable nr, kernel reads vmap_lazy_nr atomically and checks a BUG_ON condition whether nr is greater than vmap_lazy_nr to prevent vmap_lazy_nr from being negative. The problem is that, if interrupted right after marking VM_LAZY_FREE, increment of vmap_lazy_nr can be delayed. Consequently, BUG_ON condition can be met because nr is counted more than vmap_lazy_nr. It is highly probable when vmalloc/vfree are called frequently. This scenario have been verified by adding delay between marking VM_LAZY_FREE and increasing vmap_lazy_nr in free_unmap_area_noflush(). Even the vmap_lazy_nr is for checking high watermark, it never be the strict watermark. Although the BUG_ON condition is to prevent vmap_lazy_nr from being negative, vmap_lazy_nr is signed variable. So, it could go down to negative value temporarily. Consequently, removing the BUG_ON condition is proper. A possible BUG_ON message is like the below. kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c:517! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP EIP: 0060:[] EFLAGS: 00010297 CPU: 3 EIP is at __purge_vmap_area_lazy+0x144/0x150 EAX: ee8a8818 EBX: c08e77d4 ECX: e7c7ae40 EDX: c08e77ec ESI: 000081fe EDI: e7c7ae60 EBP: e7c7ae64 ESP: e7c7ae3c DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 Call Trace: [] free_unmap_vmap_area_noflush+0x69/0x70 [] remove_vm_area+0x22/0x70 [] __vunmap+0x45/0xe0 [] vmalloc+0x2c/0x30 Code: 8d 59 e0 eb 04 66 90 89 cb 89 d0 e8 87 fe ff ff 8b 43 20 89 da 8d 48 e0 8d 43 20 3b 04 24 75 e7 fe 05 a8 a5 a3 c0 e9 78 ff ff ff <0f> 0b eb fe 90 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 56 89 c6 b8 ac a5 a3 c0 31 EIP: [] __purge_vmap_area_lazy+0x144/0x150 SS:ESP 0068:e7c7ae3c [ See also http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126335856228090&w=2 ] Signed-off-by: Yongseok Koh Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/vmalloc.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c index 37e69295f250..d55d905463eb 100644 --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -555,10 +555,8 @@ static void __purge_vmap_area_lazy(unsigned long *start, unsigned long *end, } rcu_read_unlock(); - if (nr) { - BUG_ON(nr > atomic_read(&vmap_lazy_nr)); + if (nr) atomic_sub(nr, &vmap_lazy_nr); - } if (nr || force_flush) flush_tlb_kernel_range(*start, *end); -- 2.20.1