From 2f064f3485cd29633ad1b3cfb00cc519509a3d72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Hocko Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 14:11:51 -0700 Subject: mm: make page pfmemalloc check more robust Commit c48a11c7ad26 ("netvm: propagate page->pfmemalloc to skb") added checks for page->pfmemalloc to __skb_fill_page_desc(): if (page->pfmemalloc && !page->mapping) skb->pfmemalloc = true; It assumes page->mapping == NULL implies that page->pfmemalloc can be trusted. However, __delete_from_page_cache() can set set page->mapping to NULL and leave page->index value alone. Due to being in union, a non-zero page->index will be interpreted as true page->pfmemalloc. So the assumption is invalid if the networking code can see such a page. And it seems it can. We have encountered this with a NFS over loopback setup when such a page is attached to a new skbuf. There is no copying going on in this case so the page confuses __skb_fill_page_desc which interprets the index as pfmemalloc flag and the network stack drops packets that have been allocated using the reserves unless they are to be queued on sockets handling the swapping which is the case here and that leads to hangs when the nfs client waits for a response from the server which has been dropped and thus never arrive. The struct page is already heavily packed so rather than finding another hole to put it in, let's do a trick instead. We can reuse the index again but define it to an impossible value (-1UL). This is the page index so it should never see the value that large. Replace all direct users of page->pfmemalloc by page_is_pfmemalloc which will hide this nastiness from unspoiled eyes. The information will get lost if somebody wants to use page->index obviously but that was the case before and the original code expected that the information should be persisted somewhere else if that is really needed (e.g. what SLAB and SLUB do). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix blooper in slub] Fixes: c48a11c7ad26 ("netvm: propagate page->pfmemalloc to skb") Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Debugged-by: Vlastimil Babka Debugged-by: Jiri Bohac Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: David Miller Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: [3.6+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- net/core/skbuff.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/core') diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c index bf9a5d93c2d1..7b84330e5d30 100644 --- a/net/core/skbuff.c +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ struct sk_buff *build_skb(void *data, unsigned int frag_size) if (skb && frag_size) { skb->head_frag = 1; - if (virt_to_head_page(data)->pfmemalloc) + if (page_is_pfmemalloc(virt_to_head_page(data))) skb->pfmemalloc = 1; } return skb; -- cgit v1.2.3