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
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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
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