In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/hugetlb: fix DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(1) when dissolve_free_hugetlb_folio()
When I did memory failure tests recently, below warning occurs:
DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(1)
WARNING: CPU: 8 PID: 1011 at kernel/locking/lockdep.c:232 __lock_acquire+0xccb/0x1ca0
Modules linked in: mce_inject hwpoison_inject
CPU: 8 PID: 1011 Comm: bash Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.9.0-rc3-next-20240410-00012-gdb69f219f4be #3
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:__lock_acquire+0xccb/0x1ca0
RSP: 0018:ffffa7a1c7fe3bd0 EFLAGS: 00000082
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: eb851eb853975fcf RCX: ffffa1ce5fc1c9c8
RDX: 00000000ffffffd8 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: ffffa1ce5fc1c9c0
RBP: ffffa1c6865d3280 R08: ffffffffb0f570a8 R09: 0000000000009ffb
R10: 0000000000000286 R11: ffffffffb0f2ad50 R12: ffffa1c6865d3d10
R13: ffffa1c6865d3c70 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000004
FS: 00007ff9f32aa740(0000) GS:ffffa1ce5fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007ff9f3134ba0 CR3: 00000008484e4000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
lock_acquire+0xbe/0x2d0
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3a/0x60
hugepage_subpool_put_pages.part.0+0xe/0xc0
free_huge_folio+0x253/0x3f0
dissolve_free_huge_page+0x147/0x210
__page_handle_poison+0x9/0x70
memory_failure+0x4e6/0x8c0
hard_offline_page_store+0x55/0xa0
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x12c/0x1d0
vfs_write+0x380/0x540
ksys_write+0x64/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0xbc/0x1d0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7ff9f3114887
RSP: 002b:00007ffecbacb458 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000000c RCX: 00007ff9f3114887
RDX: 000000000000000c RSI: 0000564494164e10 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 0000564494164e10 R08: 00007ff9f31d1460 R09: 000000007fffffff
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000000000000000c
R13: 00007ff9f321b780 R14: 00007ff9f3217600 R15: 00007ff9f3216a00
</TASK>
Kernel panic - not syncing: kernel: panic_on_warn set ...
CPU: 8 PID: 1011 Comm: bash Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.9.0-rc3-next-20240410-00012-gdb69f219f4be #3
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
panic+0x326/0x350
check_panic_on_warn+0x4f/0x50
__warn+0x98/0x190
report_bug+0x18e/0x1a0
handle_bug+0x3d/0x70
exc_invalid_op+0x18/0x70
asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
RIP: 0010:__lock_acquire+0xccb/0x1ca0
RSP: 0018:ffffa7a1c7fe3bd0 EFLAGS: 00000082
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: eb851eb853975fcf RCX: ffffa1ce5fc1c9c8
RDX: 00000000ffffffd8 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: ffffa1ce5fc1c9c0
RBP: ffffa1c6865d3280 R08: ffffffffb0f570a8 R09: 0000000000009ffb
R10: 0000000000000286 R11: ffffffffb0f2ad50 R12: ffffa1c6865d3d10
R13: ffffa1c6865d3c70 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000004
lock_acquire+0xbe/0x2d0
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3a/0x60
hugepage_subpool_put_pages.part.0+0xe/0xc0
free_huge_folio+0x253/0x3f0
dissolve_free_huge_page+0x147/0x210
__page_handle_poison+0x9/0x70
memory_failure+0x4e6/0x8c0
hard_offline_page_store+0x55/0xa0
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x12c/0x1d0
vfs_write+0x380/0x540
ksys_write+0x64/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0xbc/0x1d0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7ff9f3114887
RSP: 002b:00007ffecbacb458 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000000c RCX: 00007ff9f3114887
RDX: 000000000000000c RSI: 0000564494164e10 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 0000564494164e10 R08: 00007ff9f31d1460 R09: 000000007fffffff
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000000000000000c
R13: 00007ff9f321b780 R14: 00007ff9f3217600 R15: 00007ff9f3216a00
</TASK>
After git bisecting and digging into the code, I believe the root cause is
that _deferred_list field of folio is unioned with _hugetlb_subpool field.
In __update_and_free_hugetlb_folio(), folio->_deferred_
---truncated---
Publication date: Thu, 30 May 2024 16:15:00 +0000