The patch titled Subject: shmem: fix faulting into a hole while it's punched, take 2 has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was shmem-fix-faulting-into-a-hole-while-its-punched-take-2.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged ------------------------------------------------------ From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: shmem: fix faulting into a hole while it's punched, take 2 Trinity finds that mmap access to a hole while it's punched from shmem can prevent the madvise(MADV_REMOVE) or fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) from completing, until the (killable) reader stops; with the puncher's hold on i_mutex locking out all other writers until it can complete. This issue was tagged with CVE-2014-4171. It appears that the tmpfs fault path is too light in comparison with its hole-punching path, lacking an i_data_sem to obstruct it; but we don't want to slow down the common case. It is not a problem in truncation, because there the SIGBUS beyond i_size stops pages from being appended. The origin of this problem is my v3.1 commit d0823576bf4b ("mm: pincer in truncate_inode_pages_range"), once it was duplicated into shmem.c. It seemed like a nice idea at the time, to ensure (barring RCU lookup fuzziness) that there's an instant when the entire hole is empty; but the indefinitely repeated scans to ensure that make it vulnerable. Revert that "enhancement" to hole-punch from shmem_undo_range(), but retain the unproblematic rescanning when it's truncating; add a couple of comments there. Remove the "indices[0] >= end" test: that is now handled satisfactorily by the inner loop, and mem_cgroup_uncharge_start()/end() are too light to be worth avoiding here. But if we do not always loop indefinitely, we do need to handle the case of swap swizzled back to page before shmem_free_swap() gets it: add a retry for that case, as suggested by Konstantin Khlebnikov. Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-and-Tested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [3.1+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/shmem.c | 19 ++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/shmem.c~shmem-fix-faulting-into-a-hole-while-its-punched-take-2 mm/shmem.c --- a/mm/shmem.c~shmem-fix-faulting-into-a-hole-while-its-punched-take-2 +++ a/mm/shmem.c @@ -467,23 +467,20 @@ static void shmem_undo_range(struct inod return; index = start; - for ( ; ; ) { + while (index < end) { cond_resched(); pvec.nr = find_get_entries(mapping, index, min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE), pvec.pages, indices); if (!pvec.nr) { - if (index == start || unfalloc) + /* If all gone or hole-punch or unfalloc, we're done */ + if (index == start || end != -1) break; + /* But if truncating, restart to make sure all gone */ index = start; continue; } - if ((index == start || unfalloc) && indices[0] >= end) { - pagevec_remove_exceptionals(&pvec); - pagevec_release(&pvec); - break; - } mem_cgroup_uncharge_start(); for (i = 0; i < pagevec_count(&pvec); i++) { struct page *page = pvec.pages[i]; @@ -495,8 +492,12 @@ static void shmem_undo_range(struct inod if (radix_tree_exceptional_entry(page)) { if (unfalloc) continue; - nr_swaps_freed += !shmem_free_swap(mapping, - index, page); + if (shmem_free_swap(mapping, index, page)) { + /* Swap was replaced by page: retry */ + index--; + break; + } + nr_swaps_freed++; continue; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hughd@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-fs-fix-pessimization-in-hole-punching-pagecache.patch rmap-fix-pgoff-calculation-to-handle-hugepage-correctly.patch mm-memoryc-use-entry-=-access_oncepte-in-handle_pte_fault.patch mm-memcontrol-fold-mem_cgroup_do_charge.patch mm-memcontrol-rearrange-charging-fast-path.patch mm-memcontrol-reclaim-at-least-once-for-__gfp_noretry.patch mm-huge_memory-use-gfp_transhuge-when-charging-huge-pages.patch mm-memcontrol-retry-reclaim-for-oom-disabled-and-__gfp_nofail-charges.patch mm-memcontrol-remove-explicit-oom-parameter-in-charge-path.patch mm-memcontrol-simplify-move-precharge-function.patch mm-memcontrol-catch-root-bypass-in-move-precharge.patch mm-memcontrol-use-root_mem_cgroup-res_counter.patch mm-memcontrol-remove-ordering-between-pc-mem_cgroup-and-pagecgroupused.patch mm-memcontrol-do-not-acquire-page_cgroup-lock-for-kmem-pages.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-charge-api.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api-fix-5.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-charge-api-fix-shmem_unuse.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-charge-api-fix-shmem_unuse-fix.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api-fix-uncharge-from-irq-context.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api-fix-double-migration.patch mm-memcontrol-use-page-lists-for-uncharge-batching.patch mm-vmallocc-add-a-schedule-point-to-vmalloc.patch mm-vmallocc-add-a-schedule-point-to-vmalloc-fix.patch include-linux-mmdebugh-add-vm_warn_once.patch shmem-fix-double-uncharge-in-__shmem_file_setup.patch shmem-update-memory-reservation-on-truncate.patch mm-catch-memory-commitment-underflow.patch mm-catch-memory-commitment-underflow-fix.patch mm-export-nr_shmem-via-sysinfo2-si_meminfo-interfaces.patch mm-replace-init_page_accessed-by-__setpagereferenced.patch mm-zbud-zbud_alloc-minor-param-change.patch mm-zbud-change-zbud_alloc-size-type-to-size_t.patch mm-zpool-implement-common-zpool-api-to-zbud-zsmalloc.patch mm-zpool-zbud-zsmalloc-implement-zpool.patch mm-zpool-update-zswap-to-use-zpool.patch mm-zpool-prevent-zbud-zsmalloc-from-unloading-when-used.patch list-use-argument-hlist_add_after-names-from-rcu-variant.patch list-fix-order-of-arguments-for-hlist_add_after_rcu.patch klist-use-same-naming-scheme-as-hlist-for-klist_add_after.patch mm-replace-remap_file_pages-syscall-with-emulation-fix-3.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html