Hi Andrew,

Jerry found that current version crash with null pointer access, so could you drop this patch from -mm for a while? I'll try to understand the situation, and repost more robust one.

Thanks, Naoya Horiguchi

On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 09:13:17PM -0700, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:

The patch titled Subject: mm: hugetlb: soft-offline: fix wrong return value of soft offline has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-hugetlb-soft-offline-fix-wrong-return-value-of-soft-offline.patch

This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-hugetlb-soft-offline-fix-wrong-r... and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-hugetlb-soft-offline-fix-wrong-r...

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From: Naoya Horiguchi n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com Subject: mm: hugetlb: soft-offline: fix wrong return value of soft offline

Soft offline events for hugetlb pages return -EBUSY when page migration succeeded and dissolve_free_huge_page() failed, which can happen when there're surplus hugepages. We should judge pass/fail of soft offline by checking whether the raw error page was finally contained or not (i.e. the result of set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page()), so this behavior is wrong.

This problem was introduced by the following change of commit 6bc9b56433b76 ("mm: fix race on soft-offlining"):

                if (ret > 0)
                        ret = -EIO;
        } else {
-               if (PageHuge(page))
-                       dissolve_free_huge_page(page);
+               /*
+                * We set PG_hwpoison only when the migration source hugepage
+                * was successfully dissolved, because otherwise hwpoisoned
+                * hugepage remains on free hugepage list, then userspace will
+                * find it as SIGBUS by allocation failure. That's not expected
+                * in soft-offlining.
+                */
+               ret = dissolve_free_huge_page(page);
+               if (!ret) {
+                       if (set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page(page))
+                               num_poisoned_pages_inc();
+               }
        }
        return ret;
 }

so a simple fix is to restore the PageHuge precheck, but my code reading shows that we already have PageHuge check in dissolve_free_huge_page() with hugetlb_lock, which is better place to check it. And currently dissolve_free_huge_page() returns -EBUSY for !PageHuge but that's simply wrong because that that case should be considered as success (meaning that "the given hugetlb was already dissolved.")

This change affects other callers of dissolve_free_huge_page(), which are also cleaned up by this patch.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1558937200-18544-1-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp... Fixes: 6bc9b56433b76 ("mm: fix race on soft-offlining") Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com Reported-by: Chen, Jerry T jerry.t.chen@intel.com Cc: Michal Hocko mhocko@kernel.org Cc: Mike Kravetz mike.kravetz@oracle.com Cc: "Zhuo, Qiuxu" qiuxu.zhuo@intel.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [4.19+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org

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mm/hugetlb.c | 15 +++++++++------ mm/memory-failure.c | 7 +++---- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/hugetlb.c~mm-hugetlb-soft-offline-fix-wrong-return-value-of-soft-offline +++ a/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -1519,7 +1519,12 @@ int dissolve_free_huge_page(struct page int rc = -EBUSY; spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);

• if (PageHuge(page) && !page_count(page)) {

• if (!PageHuge(page)) {

• rc = 0;
  

• goto out;
  

• }
• if (!page_count(page)) { struct page *head = compound_head(page); struct hstate *h = page_hstate(head); int nid = page_to_nid(head);

@@ -1564,11 +1569,9 @@ int dissolve_free_huge_pages(unsigned lo for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn < end_pfn; pfn += 1 << minimum_order) { page = pfn_to_page(pfn);

• if (PageHuge(page) && !page_count(page)) {
  

• 	rc = dissolve_free_huge_page(page);
  

• 	if (rc)
  

• 		break;
  

• }
  

• rc = dissolve_free_huge_page(page);
  

• if (rc)
  

• 	break;
  

  }

return rc; --- a/mm/memory-failure.c~mm-hugetlb-soft-offline-fix-wrong-return-value-of-soft-offline +++ a/mm/memory-failure.c @@ -1733,6 +1733,8 @@ static int soft_offline_huge_page(struct if (!ret) { if (set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page(page)) num_poisoned_pages_inc();

• 	else
  

• 		ret = -EBUSY;
  

  } } return ret;

@@ -1857,11 +1859,8 @@ static int soft_offline_in_use_page(stru static int soft_offline_free_page(struct page *page) {

• int rc = 0;
• struct page *head = compound_head(page);

• int rc = dissolve_free_huge_page(page);

• if (PageHuge(head))

• rc = dissolve_free_huge_page(page);
  

  if (!rc) { if (set_hwpoison_free_buddy_page(page)) num_poisoned_pages_inc();

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Patches currently in -mm which might be from n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com are

mm-hugetlb-soft-offline-fix-wrong-return-value-of-soft-offline.patch