Re: [PATCH 3.10-stable] thp: fix copy_page_rep GPF by testing is_huge_zero_pmd once

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On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:51:28PM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> >From eecc1e426d681351a6026a7d3e7d225f38955b6c
> From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 01:25:21 -0800
> 
> thp: fix copy_page_rep GPF by testing is_huge_zero_pmd once only
> 
> We see General Protection Fault on RSI in copy_page_rep: that RSI is
> what you get from a NULL struct page pointer.
> 
>   RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81154955>]  [<ffffffff81154955>] copy_page_rep+0x5/0x10
>   RSP: 0000:ffff880136e15c00  EFLAGS: 00010286
>   RAX: ffff880000000000 RBX: ffff880136e14000 RCX: 0000000000000200
>   RDX: 6db6db6db6db6db7 RSI: db73880000000000 RDI: ffff880dd0c00000
>   RBP: ffff880136e15c18 R08: 0000000000000200 R09: 000000000005987c
>   R10: 000000000005987c R11: 0000000000000200 R12: 0000000000000001
>   R13: ffffea00305aa000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
>   FS:  00007f195752f700(0000) GS:ffff880c7fc20000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>   CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>   CR2: 0000000093010000 CR3: 00000001458e1000 CR4: 00000000000027e0
>   Call Trace:
>     copy_user_huge_page+0x93/0xab
>     do_huge_pmd_wp_page+0x710/0x815
>     handle_mm_fault+0x15d8/0x1d70
>     __do_page_fault+0x14d/0x840
>     do_page_fault+0x2f/0x90
>     page_fault+0x22/0x30
> 
> do_huge_pmd_wp_page() tests is_huge_zero_pmd(orig_pmd) four times: but
> since shrink_huge_zero_page() can free the huge_zero_page, and we have
> no hold of our own on it here (except where the fourth test holds
> page_table_lock and has checked pmd_same), it's possible for it to
> answer yes the first time, but no to the second or third test.  Change
> all those last three to tests for NULL page.
> 
> (Note: this is not the same issue as trinity's DEBUG_PAGEALLOC BUG
> in copy_page_rep with RSI: ffff88009c422000, reported by Sasha Levin
> in https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/29/103.  I believe that one is due
> to the source page being split, and a tail page freed, while copy
> is in progress; and not a problem without DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, since
> the pmd_same check will prevent a miscopy from being made visible.)
> 
> Fixes: 97ae17497e99 ("thp: implement refcounting for huge zero page")
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v3.10 v3.11 v3.12
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Backported to 3.10.27:

Wonderful, thanks for this, now applied.

greg k-h
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