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mm/page_owner: fix recursion bug after changing skip entries
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This patch fixes commit 5f48f0b ("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)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1521607043-34670-1-git-send-email-maninder1.s@samsung.com
Fixes: 5f48f0b ("mm, page_owner: skip unnecessary stack_trace entries")
Signed-off-by: Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Vaneet Narang <v.narang@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@techadventures.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Ayush Mittal <ayush.m@samsung.com>
Cc: Prakash Gupta <guptap@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Vasyl Gomonovych <gomonovych@gmail.com>
Cc: Amit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@samsung.com>
Cc: <pankaj.m@samsung.com>
Cc: Vaneet Narang <v.narang@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Maninder Singh authored and Linus Torvalds committed Mar 28, 2018
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions mm/page_owner.c
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -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;
}

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