This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm: hugetlb: call huge_pte_alloc() only if ptep is null
to the 4.3-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mm-hugetlb-call-huge_pte_alloc-only-if-ptep-is-null.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.3 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 0d777df5d8953293be090d9ab5a355db893e8357 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 13:40:49 -0800
Subject: mm: hugetlb: call huge_pte_alloc() only if ptep is null
From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 0d777df5d8953293be090d9ab5a355db893e8357 upstream.
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>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3590,12 +3590,12 @@ 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 stable-queue which might be from n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.3/mm-hugetlb-call-huge_pte_alloc-only-if-ptep-is-null.patch
queue-4.3/mm-hugetlbfs-fix-bugs-in-fallocate-hole-punch-of-areas-with-holes.patch
queue-4.3/mm-hugetlb-fix-hugepage-memory-leak-caused-by-wrong-reserve-count.patch
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