I was writing some code where I was locking all pages of a process during exec() time by setting VM_LOCKED flag in mm->def_flags. But that lead to errors because length of mapping is not page aligned. login: [ 174.669002] INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU { 2} (t=60000 jiffies g=2580 c=2579 q=1085) [ 174.669002] Pid: 4894, comm: kexec Not tainted 3.9.0-rc6+ #243 [ 174.669002] Call Trace: [ 174.669002] <IRQ> [<ffffffff810c413a>] rcu_check_callbacks+0x21a/0x760 [ 174.669002] [<ffffffff810c7c0c>] ? acct_account_cputime+0x1c/0x20 [ 174.669002] [<ffffffff8104fd08>] update_process_times+0x48/0x80 [ 174.669002] [<ffffffff810913dd>] tick_sched_handle+0x3d/0x50 [ 174.669002] [<ffffffff810915e5>] tick_sched_timer+0x45/0x70 [ 174.669002] [<ffffffff81066951>] __run_hrtimer+0x81/0x220 [ 174.669002] [<ffffffff810915a0>] ? tick_nohz_handler+0xa0/0xa0 [ 174.669002] [<ffffffff8108ae0c>] ? ktime_get_update_offsets+0x4c/0xd0 [ 174.669002] [<ffffffff81067297>] hrtimer_interrupt+0xf7/0x250 [ 174.669002] [<ffffffff81886739>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x69/0x99 [ 174.669002] [<ffffffff818859ca>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6a/0x70 [ 174.669002] <EOI> [<ffffffff8111e557>] ? __mlock_vma_pages_range+0x57/0x70 [ 174.669002] [<ffffffff8111e568>] ? __mlock_vma_pages_range+0x68/0x70 [ 174.669002] [<ffffffff8111ea01>] __mm_populate+0x71/0x140 [ 174.669002] [<ffffffff81121b5f>] vm_brk+0x7f/0xa0 [ 174.669002] [<ffffffff81199633>] load_elf_binary+0x1a73/0x1b10 [ 174.669002] [<ffffffff812d25a5>] ? ima_bprm_check+0x55/0x70 [ 174.669002] [<ffffffff8114890a>] search_binary_handler+0x12a/0x3b0 [ 174.669002] [<ffffffff81197bc0>] ? load_elf_library+0x210/0x210 [ 174.669002] [<ffffffff8114aa00>] do_execve_common+0x500/0x5c0 [ 174.669002] [<ffffffff8114aaf7>] do_execve+0x37/0x40 [ 174.669002] [<ffffffff8114ad9d>] sys_execve+0x3d/0x60 [ 174.669002] [<ffffffff81885379>] stub_execve+0x69/0xa0 Thanks to Michel and Hugh Dickens that they identified that __mm_populate() will loop forever if passed in length is not page aligned. Similar issues related to mmap() have already been fixed. This patch fixes vm_brk(). sys_brk() seems to be only other caller of do_brk() and sys_brk() already aligns lenth to page boundary. So looks like page alignment logic can be removed from do_brk(). Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken at google.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com> --- mm/mmap.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index fbad7b0..3d806be 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -2586,10 +2586,6 @@ static unsigned long do_brk(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len) pgoff_t pgoff = addr >> PAGE_SHIFT; int error; - len = PAGE_ALIGN(len); - if (!len) - return addr; - flags = VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS | VM_ACCOUNT | mm->def_flags; error = get_unmapped_area(NULL, addr, len, 0, MAP_FIXED); @@ -2672,6 +2668,10 @@ unsigned long vm_brk(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len) unsigned long ret; bool populate; + len = PAGE_ALIGN(len); + if (!len) + return addr; + down_write(&mm->mmap_sem); ret = do_brk(addr, len); populate = ((mm->def_flags & VM_LOCKED) != 0); -- 1.8.3.1