Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754825Ab2HNIcn (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2012 04:32:43 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:64205 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754137Ab2HNIci (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2012 04:32:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:33:20 +0300 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" To: Rusty Russell Cc: Rafael Aquini , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Rik van Riel , Mel Gorman , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Minchan Kim Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/4] virtio_balloon: introduce migration primitives to balloon pages Message-ID: <20120814083320.GA3597@redhat.com> References: <20120813084123.GF14081@redhat.com> <87lihis5qi.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87lihis5qi.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2003 Lines: 65 On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 09:29:49AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:41:23 +0300, "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 02:55:15PM -0300, Rafael Aquini wrote: > > > +/* > > > + * Populate balloon_mapping->a_ops->freepage method to help compaction on > > > + * re-inserting an isolated page into the balloon page list. > > > + */ > > > +void virtballoon_putbackpage(struct page *page) > > > +{ > > > + spin_lock(&pages_lock); > > > + list_add(&page->lru, &vb_ptr->pages); > > > + spin_unlock(&pages_lock); > > > > Could the following race trigger: > > migration happens while module unloading is in progress, > > module goes away between here and when the function > > returns, then code for this function gets overwritten? > > If yes we need locking external to module to prevent this. > > Maybe add a spinlock to struct address_space? > > The balloon module cannot be unloaded until it has leaked all its pages, > so I think this is safe: > > static void remove_common(struct virtio_balloon *vb) > { > /* There might be pages left in the balloon: free them. */ > while (vb->num_pages) > leak_balloon(vb, vb->num_pages); > > Cheers, > Rusty. I know I meant something else. Let me lay this out: CPU1 executes: void virtballoon_putbackpage(struct page *page) { spin_lock(&pages_lock); list_add(&page->lru, &vb_ptr->pages); spin_unlock(&pages_lock); at this point CPU2 unloads module: leak_balloon ...... next CPU2 loads another module so code memory gets overwritten now CPU1 executes the next instruction: } which would normally return to function's caller, but it has been overwritten by CPU2 so we get corruption. No? -- MST -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/