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Date:   Thu, 9 Jan 2020 10:52:01 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [Patch v2] mm: thp: grab the lock before manipulation defer
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On Thu, 9 Jan 2020, Wei Yang wrote:

> As all the other places, we grab the lock before manipulate the defer list.
> Current implementation may face a race condition.
> 
> For example, the potential race would be:
> 
>     CPU1                      CPU2
>     mem_cgroup_move_account   split_huge_page_to_list
>       !list_empty
>                                 lock
>                                 !list_empty
>                                 list_del
>                                 unlock
>       lock
>       # !list_empty might not hold anymore
>       list_del_init
>       unlock
> 
> When this sequence happens, the list_del_init() in
> mem_cgroup_move_account() would crash if CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST since the
> page is already been removed by list_del in split_huge_page_to_list().
> 
> Fixes: 87eaceb3faa5 ("mm: thp: make deferred split shrinker memcg aware")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

Thanks Wei!

Andrew, I'd also suggest:

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.4+