This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ksm: prevent crash after write_protect_page fails
to the 4.9-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:
ksm-prevent-crash-after-write_protect_page-fails.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From a7306c3436e9c8e584a4b9fad5f3dc91be2a6076 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 14:46:11 -0700
Subject: ksm: prevent crash after write_protect_page fails
From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit a7306c3436e9c8e584a4b9fad5f3dc91be2a6076 upstream.
"err" needs to be left set to -EFAULT if split_huge_page succeeds.
Otherwise if "err" gets clobbered with zero and write_protect_page
fails, try_to_merge_one_page() will succeed instead of returning -EFAULT
and then try_to_merge_with_ksm_page() will continue thinking kpage is a
PageKsm when in fact it's still an anonymous page. Eventually it'll
crash in page_add_anon_rmap.
This has been reproduced on Fedora25 kernel but I can reproduce with
upstream too.
The bug was introduced in commit f765f540598a ("ksm: prepare to new THP
semantics") introduced in v4.5.
page:fffff67546ce1cc0 count:4 mapcount:2 mapping:ffffa094551e36e1 index:0x7f0f46673
flags: 0x2ffffc0004007c(referenced|uptodate|dirty|lru|active|swapbacked)
page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page))
page->mem_cgroup:ffffa09674bf0000
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:1222!
CPU: 1 PID: 76 Comm: ksmd Not tainted 4.9.3-200.fc25.x86_64 #1
RIP: do_page_add_anon_rmap+0x1c4/0x240
Call Trace:
page_add_anon_rmap+0x18/0x20
try_to_merge_with_ksm_page+0x50b/0x780
ksm_scan_thread+0x1211/0x1410
? prepare_to_wait_event+0x100/0x100
? try_to_merge_with_ksm_page+0x780/0x780
kthread+0xd9/0xf0
? kthread_park+0x60/0x60
ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30
Fixes: f765f54059 ("ksm: prepare to new THP semantics")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170513131040.21732-1-aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Federico Simoncelli <fsimonce@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/ksm.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -1002,8 +1002,7 @@ static int try_to_merge_one_page(struct
goto out;
if (PageTransCompound(page)) {
- err = split_huge_page(page);
- if (err)
+ if (split_huge_page(page))
goto out_unlock;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/ksm-prevent-crash-after-write_protect_page-fails.patch