The patch titled Subject: mm: hugetlb: call huge_pte_alloc() only if ptep is null has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-hugetlb-call-huge_pte_alloc-only-if-ptep-is-null.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-hugetlb-call-huge_pte_alloc-only-if-ptep-is-null.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-hugetlb-call-huge_pte_alloc-only-if-ptep-is-null.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: hugetlb: call huge_pte_alloc() only if ptep is null Currently at the beginning of hugetlb_fault(), we call huge_pte_offset() and check whether the obtained *ptep is a migration/hwpoison entry or not. And if not, then we get to call huge_pte_alloc(). This is racy because the *ptep could turn into migration/hwpoison entry after the huge_pte_offset() check. This race results in BUG_ON in huge_pte_alloc(). We don't have to call huge_pte_alloc() when the huge_pte_offset() returns non-NULL, so let's fix this bug with moving the code into else block. Note that the *ptep could turn into a migration/hwpoison entry after this block, but that's not a problem because we have another !pte_present check later (we never go into hugetlb_no_page() in that case.) Fixes: 290408d4a250 ("hugetlb: hugepage migration core") Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2.6.36+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/hugetlb.c~mm-hugetlb-call-huge_pte_alloc-only-if-ptep-is-null mm/hugetlb.c --- a/mm/hugetlb.c~mm-hugetlb-call-huge_pte_alloc-only-if-ptep-is-null +++ a/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -3696,12 +3696,12 @@ int hugetlb_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, } else if (unlikely(is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned(entry))) return VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE | VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX(hstate_index(h)); + } else { + ptep = huge_pte_alloc(mm, address, huge_page_size(h)); + if (!ptep) + return VM_FAULT_OOM; } - ptep = huge_pte_alloc(mm, address, huge_page_size(h)); - if (!ptep) - return VM_FAULT_OOM; - mapping = vma->vm_file->f_mapping; idx = vma_hugecache_offset(h, vma, address); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-hugetlb-fix-hugepage-memory-leak-caused-by-wrong-reserve-count.patch mm-hugetlb-call-huge_pte_alloc-only-if-ptep-is-null.patch rmap-add-argument-to-charge-compound-page-fix.patch mm-hwpoison-adjust-for-new-thp-refcounting.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html