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Vlastimil Babka 8974558f49 mm, page_owner, debug_pagealloc: save and dump freeing stack trace
The debug_pagealloc functionality is useful to catch buggy page allocator
users that cause e.g.  use after free or double free.  When page
inconsistency is detected, debugging is often simpler by knowing the call
stack of process that last allocated and freed the page.  When page_owner
is also enabled, we record the allocation stack trace, but not freeing.

This patch therefore adds recording of freeing process stack trace to page
owner info, if both page_owner and debug_pagealloc are configured and
enabled.  With only page_owner enabled, this info is not useful for the
memory leak debugging use case.  dump_page() is adjusted to print the
info.  An example result of calling __free_pages() twice may look like
this (note the page last free stack trace):

BUG: Bad page state in process bash  pfn:13d8f8
page:ffffc31984f63e00 refcount:-1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0
flags: 0x1affff800000000()
raw: 01affff800000000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: nonzero _refcount
page_owner tracks the page as freed
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xcc0(GFP_KERNEL)
 prep_new_page+0x143/0x150
 get_page_from_freelist+0x289/0x380
 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x13c/0x2d0
 khugepaged+0x6e/0xc10
 kthread+0xf9/0x130
 ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50
page last free stack trace:
 free_pcp_prepare+0x134/0x1e0
 free_unref_page+0x18/0x90
 khugepaged+0x7b/0xc10
 kthread+0xf9/0x130
 ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50
Modules linked in:
CPU: 3 PID: 271 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.3.0-rc4-2.g07a1a73-default+ #57
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.1-0-ga5cab58-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 dump_stack+0x85/0xc0
 bad_page.cold+0xba/0xbf
 rmqueue_pcplist.isra.0+0x6c5/0x6d0
 rmqueue+0x2d/0x810
 get_page_from_freelist+0x191/0x380
 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x13c/0x2d0
 __get_free_pages+0xd/0x30
 __pud_alloc+0x2c/0x110
 copy_page_range+0x4f9/0x630
 dup_mmap+0x362/0x480
 dup_mm+0x68/0x110
 copy_process+0x19e1/0x1b40
 _do_fork+0x73/0x310
 __x64_sys_clone+0x75/0x80
 do_syscall_64+0x6e/0x1e0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
RIP: 0033:0x7f10af854a10
...

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190820131828.22684-5-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-09-24 15:54:08 -07:00
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