From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Subject: dax: fix ENOMEM handling in grab_mapping_entry() grab_mapping_entry() has a bug in handling of ENOMEM condition. Suppose we have a PMD entry at index i which we are downgrading to a PTE entry. grab_mapping_entry() will set pmd_downgrade to true, lock the entry, clear the entry in xarray, and decrement mapping->nrpages. The it will call: entry = dax_make_entry(pfn_to_pfn_t(0), flags); dax_lock_entry(xas, entry); which inserts new PTE entry into xarray. However this may fail allocating the new node. We handle this by: if (xas_nomem(xas, mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) & ~__GFP_HIGHMEM)) goto retry; however pmd_downgrade stays set to true even though 'entry' returned from get_unlocked_entry() will be NULL now. And we will go again through the downgrade branch. This is mostly harmless except that mapping->nrpages is decremented again and we temporarily have an invalid entry stored in xarray. Fix the problem by setting pmd_downgrade to false each time we lookup the entry we work with so that it matches the entry we found. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210622160015.18004-1-jack@xxxxxxx Fixes: b15cd800682f ("dax: Convert page fault handlers to XArray") Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/dax.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/dax.c~dax-fix-enomem-handling-in-grab_mapping_entry +++ a/fs/dax.c @@ -488,10 +488,11 @@ static void *grab_mapping_entry(struct x struct address_space *mapping, unsigned int order) { unsigned long index = xas->xa_index; - bool pmd_downgrade = false; /* splitting PMD entry into PTE entries? */ + bool pmd_downgrade; /* splitting PMD entry into PTE entries? */ void *entry; retry: + pmd_downgrade = false; xas_lock_irq(xas); entry = get_unlocked_entry(xas, order); _