This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
s390/mm: fix CMMA vs KSM vs others
to the 3.18-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:
s390-mm-fix-cmma-vs-ksm-vs-others.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From a8f60d1fadf7b8b54449fcc9d6b15248917478ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2017 22:09:38 +0200
Subject: s390/mm: fix CMMA vs KSM vs others
From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit a8f60d1fadf7b8b54449fcc9d6b15248917478ba upstream.
On heavy paging with KSM I see guest data corruption. Turns out that
KSM will add pages to its tree, where the mapping return true for
pte_unused (or might become as such later). KSM will unmap such pages
and reinstantiate with different attributes (e.g. write protected or
special, e.g. in replace_page or write_protect_page)). This uncovered
a bug in our pagetable handling: We must remove the unused flag as
soon as an entry becomes present again.
Signed-of-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -863,6 +863,8 @@ static inline void set_pte_at(struct mm_
{
pgste_t pgste;
+ if (pte_present(entry))
+ pte_val(entry) &= ~_PAGE_UNUSED;
if (mm_has_pgste(mm)) {
pgste = pgste_get_lock(ptep);
pgste_val(pgste) &= ~_PGSTE_GPS_ZERO;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/s390-mm-fix-cmma-vs-ksm-vs-others.patch