[PATCH 1/1] mm/page_owner: fix recursion bug after changing skip entries

From: Maninder Singh
Date: Wed Mar 21 2018 - 00:38:26 EST


This patch fixes "5f48f0bd4e368425db4424b9afd1bd251d32367a".
(mm, page_owner: skip unnecessary stack_trace entries)

Because if we skip first two entries then logic of checking count
value as 2 for recursion is broken and code will go in one depth
recursion.

so we need to check only one call of _RET_IP(__set_page_owner)
while checking for recursion.

Current Backtrace while checking for recursion:-

(save_stack) from (__set_page_owner) // (But recursion returns true here)
(__set_page_owner) from (get_page_from_freelist)
(get_page_from_freelist) from (__alloc_pages_nodemask)
(__alloc_pages_nodemask) from (depot_save_stack)
(depot_save_stack) from (save_stack) // recursion should return true here
(save_stack) from (__set_page_owner)
(__set_page_owner) from (get_page_from_freelist)
(get_page_from_freelist) from (__alloc_pages_nodemask+)
(__alloc_pages_nodemask) from (depot_save_stack)
(depot_save_stack) from (save_stack)
(save_stack) from (__set_page_owner)
(__set_page_owner) from (get_page_from_freelist)

Correct Backtrace with fix:

(save_stack) from (__set_page_owner) // recursion returned true here
(__set_page_owner) from (get_page_from_freelist)
(get_page_from_freelist) from (__alloc_pages_nodemask+)
(__alloc_pages_nodemask) from (depot_save_stack)
(depot_save_stack) from (save_stack)
(save_stack) from (__set_page_owner)
(__set_page_owner) from (get_page_from_freelist)

Signed-off-by: Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vaneet Narang <v.narang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_owner.c | 6 +++---
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_owner.c b/mm/page_owner.c
index 8592543..46ab1c4 100644
--- a/mm/page_owner.c
+++ b/mm/page_owner.c
@@ -123,13 +123,13 @@ void __reset_page_owner(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
static inline bool check_recursive_alloc(struct stack_trace *trace,
unsigned long ip)
{
- int i, count;
+ int i;

if (!trace->nr_entries)
return false;

- for (i = 0, count = 0; i < trace->nr_entries; i++) {
- if (trace->entries[i] == ip && ++count == 2)
+ for (i = 0; i < trace->nr_entries; i++) {
+ if (trace->entries[i] == ip)
return true;
}

--
1.7.1