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sched/numa: fix memory leak due to the overwritten vma->numab_state

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[Problem Description]
When running the hackbench program of LTP, the following memory leak is
reported by kmemleak.

  # /opt/ltp/testcases/bin/hackbench 20 thread 1000
  Running with 20*40 (== 800) tasks.

  # dmesg | grep kmemleak
  ...
  kmemleak: 480 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
  kmemleak: 665 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)

  # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
  unreferenced object 0xffff888cd8ca2c40 (size 64):
    comm "hackbench", pid 17142, jiffies 4299780315
    hex dump (first 32 bytes):
      ac 74 49 00 01 00 00 00 4c 84 49 00 01 00 00 00  .tI.....L.I.....
      00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    backtrace (crc bff18fd4):
      [<ffffffff81419a89>] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x2f9/0x3f0
      [<ffffffff8113f715>] task_numa_work+0x725/0xa00
      [<ffffffff8110f878>] task_work_run+0x58/0x90
      [<ffffffff81ddd9f8>] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1c8/0x1e0
      [<ffffffff81dd78d5>] do_syscall_64+0x85/0x150
      [<ffffffff81e0012b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
  ...

This issue can be consistently reproduced on three different servers:
  * a 448-core server
  * a 256-core server
  * a 192-core server

[Root Cause]
Since multiple threads are created by the hackbench program (along with
the command argument 'thread'), a shared vma might be accessed by two or
more cores simultaneously. When two or more cores observe that
vma->numab_state is NULL at the same time, vma->numab_state will be
overwritten.

Although current code ensures that only one thread scans the VMAs in a
single 'numa_scan_period', there might be a chance for another thread
to enter in the next 'numa_scan_period' while we have not gotten till
numab_state allocation [1].

Note that the command `/opt/ltp/testcases/bin/hackbench 50 process 1000`
cannot the reproduce the issue. It is verified with 200+ test runs.

[Solution]
Use the cmpxchg atomic operation to ensure that only one thread executes
the vma->numab_state assignment.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1794be3c-358c-4cdc-a43d-a1f841d91ef7@amd.com/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241113102146.2384-1-ahuang12@lenovo.com
Fixes: ef6a22b70f ("sched/numa: apply the scan delay to every new vma")
Signed-off-by: Adrian Huang <ahuang12@lenovo.com>
Reported-by: Jiwei Sun <sunjw10@lenovo.com>
Reviewed-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Adrian Huang 2024-11-13 18:21:46 +08:00 committed by Andrew Morton
parent 6535b8669c
commit 5f1b64e9a9
1 changed files with 9 additions and 3 deletions
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@ -3399,11 +3399,17 @@ static void task_numa_work(struct callback_head *work)
/* Initialise new per-VMA NUMAB state. */
if (!vma->numab_state) {
vma->numab_state = kzalloc(sizeof(struct vma_numab_state),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!vma->numab_state)
struct vma_numab_state *ptr;
ptr = kzalloc(sizeof(*ptr), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ptr)
continue;
if (cmpxchg(&vma->numab_state, NULL, ptr)) {
kfree(ptr);
continue;
}
vma->numab_state->start_scan_seq = mm->numa_scan_seq;
vma->numab_state->next_scan = now +