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[PATCH] Fix buddy list race that could lead to page lru list corruptions

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Rohit found an obscure bug causing buddy list corruption.

page_is_buddy is using a non-atomic test (PagePrivate && page_count == 0)
to determine whether or not a free page's buddy is itself free and in the
buddy lists.

Each of the conjuncts may be true at different times due to unrelated
conditions, so the non-atomic page_is_buddy test may find each conjunct to
be true even if they were not both true at the same time (ie. the page was
not on the buddy lists).

Signed-off-by: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohit Seth <rohitseth@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Nick Piggin 2006-04-10 11:21:48 +10:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
parent c3a9d6541f
commit 676165a8af
3 changed files with 27 additions and 17 deletions
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include/linux/page-flags.h
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@ -74,7 +74,9 @@
#define PG_mappedtodisk 16 /* Has blocks allocated on-disk */
#define PG_reclaim 17 /* To be reclaimed asap */
#define PG_nosave_free 18 /* Free, should not be written */
#define PG_uncached 19 /* Page has been mapped as uncached */
#define PG_buddy 19 /* Page is free, on buddy lists */
#define PG_uncached 20 /* Page has been mapped as uncached */
/*
* Global page accounting. One instance per CPU. Only unsigned longs are
@ -317,6 +319,10 @@ extern void __mod_page_state_offset(unsigned long offset, unsigned long delta);
#define SetPageNosaveFree(page) set_bit(PG_nosave_free, &(page)->flags)
#define ClearPageNosaveFree(page) clear_bit(PG_nosave_free, &(page)->flags)
#define PageBuddy(page) test_bit(PG_buddy, &(page)->flags)
#define __SetPageBuddy(page) __set_bit(PG_buddy, &(page)->flags)
#define __ClearPageBuddy(page) __clear_bit(PG_buddy, &(page)->flags)
#define PageMappedToDisk(page) test_bit(PG_mappedtodisk, &(page)->flags)
#define SetPageMappedToDisk(page) set_bit(PG_mappedtodisk, &(page)->flags)
#define ClearPageMappedToDisk(page) clear_bit(PG_mappedtodisk, &(page)->flags)