mm: fix process accidentally killed by mce because of huge page migration

Hi Naoya or Greg,

We found a bug in 3.10.x.
The problem is that we accidentally have a hwpoisoned hugepage in free hugepage list. It could happend in the the following scenario:

process A process B

migrate_huge_page
put_page (old hugepage)
linked to free hugepage list
hugetlb_fault
hugetlb_no_page
alloc_huge_page
dequeue_huge_page_vma
dequeue_huge_page_node
(steal hwpoisoned hugepage)
set_page_hwpoison_huge_page
dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page
(fail to dequeue)

I tested this bug, one process keeps allocating huge page, and I use sysfs interface to soft offline a huge page, then received:
"MCE: Killing UCP:2717 due to hardware memory corruption fault at 8200034"

Upstream kernel is free from this bug because of these two commits:

f15bdfa802bfa5eb6b4b5a241b97ec9fa1204a35 mm/memory-failure.c: fix memory leak in successful soft offlining

c8721bbbdd36382de51cd6b7a56322e0acca2414
mm: memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage

The first one, although the problem is about memory leak, this patch moves unset_migratetype_isolate(), which is important to avoid the race. The latter is not a bug fix and it's too big, so I rewrite a small one.

The following patch can fix this bug.(please apply f15bdfa802bf first)

---
 mm/hugetlb.c |   11 +++++++++--
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

index 7c5eb85..6cb5b3b 100644
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include <linux/rmap.h>
 #include <linux/swap.h>
 #include <linux/swapops.h>
+#include <linux/page-isolation.h>
 
 #include <asm/page.h>
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>

@@ -517,9 +518,15 @@ static struct page *dequeue_huge_page_node(struct hstate *h, int nid)
 {
 	struct page *page;
 
-	if (list_empty(&h->hugepage_freelists[nid]))
+	list_for_each_entry(page, &h->hugepage_freelists[nid], lru)
+		if (!is_migrate_isolate_page(page))
+			break;
+	/*
+	 * if 'non-isolated free hugepage' not found on the list,
+	 * the allocation fails.
+	 */
+	if (&h->hugepage_freelists[nid] == &page->lru)
 		return NULL;
-	page = list_entry(h->hugepage_freelists[nid].next, struct page, lru);
 	list_move(&page->lru, &h->hugepage_activelist);
 	set_page_refcounted(page);
 	h->free_huge_pages--;

1.7.1 

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

mm: fix process accidentally killed by mce because of huge page migration

to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
mm-fix-process-accidentally-killed-by-mce-because-of-huge-page-migration.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.