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There is no xas_pause(&xas) in collapse_file()'s main loop, at the points where it does xas_unlock_irq(&xas) and then continues. That would explain why, once two weeks ago and twice yesterday, I have hit the VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page != xas_load(&xas), page) since "mm/khugepaged: fix iteration in collapse_file" removed the xas_set(&xas, index) just before it: xas.xa_node could be left pointing to a stale node, if there was concurrent activity on the file which transformed its xarray. I tried inserting xas_pause()s, but then even bootup crashed on that VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(): there appears to be a subtle "nextness" implicit in xas_pause(). xas_next() and xas_pause() are good for use in simple loops, but not in this one: xas_set() worked well until now, so use xas_set(&xas, index) explicitly at the head of the loop; and change that VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() not to need its own xas_set(), and not to interfere with the xa_state (which would probably stop the crashes from xas_pause(), but I trust that less). The user-visible effects of this bug (if VM_BUG_ONs are configured out) would be data loss and data leak - potentially - though in practice I expect it is more likely that a subsequent check (e.g. on mapping or on nr_none) would notice an inconsistency, and just abandon the collapse. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/f18e4b64-3f88-a8ab-56cc-d1f5f9c58d4@google.com/ Fixes: c8a8f3b4a95a ("mm/khugepaged: fix iteration in collapse_file") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: David Stevens <stevensd@chromium.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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