This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm: mempolicy: fix mbind_range() && vma_adjust() interaction
to the 3.10-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-mempolicy-fix-mbind_range-vma_adjust-interaction.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 3964acd0dbec123aa0a621973a2a0580034b4788 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:53:28 -0700
Subject: mm: mempolicy: fix mbind_range() && vma_adjust() interaction
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 3964acd0dbec123aa0a621973a2a0580034b4788 upstream.
vma_adjust() does vma_set_policy(vma, vma_policy(next)) and this
is doubly wrong:
1. This leaks vma->vm_policy if it is not NULL and not equal to
next->vm_policy.
This can happen if vma_merge() expands "area", not prev (case 8).
2. This sets the wrong policy if vma_merge() joins prev and area,
area is the vma the caller needs to update and it still has the
old policy.
Revert commit 1444f92c8498 ("mm: merging memory blocks resets
mempolicy") which introduced these problems.
Change mbind_range() to recheck mpol_equal() after vma_merge() to fix
the problem that commit tried to address.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven T Hampson <steven.t.hampson@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mempolicy.c | 6 +++++-
mm/mmap.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -732,7 +732,10 @@ static int mbind_range(struct mm_struct
if (prev) {
vma = prev;
next = vma->vm_next;
- continue;
+ if (mpol_equal(vma_policy(vma), new_pol))
+ continue;
+ /* vma_merge() joined vma && vma->next, case 8 */
+ goto replace;
}
if (vma->vm_start != vmstart) {
err = split_vma(vma->vm_mm, vma, vmstart, 1);
@@ -744,6 +747,7 @@ static int mbind_range(struct mm_struct
if (err)
goto out;
}
+ replace:
err = vma_replace_policy(vma, new_pol);
if (err)
goto out;
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -865,7 +865,7 @@ again: remove_next = 1 + (end > next->
if (next->anon_vma)
anon_vma_merge(vma, next);
mm->map_count--;
- vma_set_policy(vma, vma_policy(next));
+ mpol_put(vma_policy(next));
kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, next);
/*
* In mprotect's case 6 (see comments on vma_merge),
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.10/mm-mempolicy-fix-mbind_range-vma_adjust-interaction.patch
queue-3.10/tracing-kill-the-unbalanced-tr-ref-in-tracing_buffers_open.patch
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