mm: fix slab->page flags corruption

Transparent huge pages can change page->flags (PG_compound_lock) without
taking Slab lock.  Since THP can not break slab pages we can safely access
compound page without taking compound lock.

Specifically this patch fixes a race between compound_unlock() and slab
functions which perform page-flags updates.  This can occur when
get_page()/put_page() is called on a page from slab.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment text, fix comment layout, fix label indenting]
Reported-by: Amey Bhide <abhide@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index aa20bafa40f6..ce26716238c3 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -321,6 +321,7 @@ static inline int is_vmalloc_or_module_addr(const void *x)
 static inline void compound_lock(struct page *page)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+        VM_BUG_ON(PageSlab(page));
         bit_spin_lock(PG_compound_lock, &page->flags);
 #endif
 }
@@ -328,6 +329,7 @@ static inline void compound_lock(struct page *page)
 static inline void compound_unlock(struct page *page)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+        VM_BUG_ON(PageSlab(page));
         bit_spin_unlock(PG_compound_lock, &page->flags);
 #endif
 }