The patch titled Subject: mm/hugetlb: add migration/hwpoisoned entry check in hugetlb_change_protection has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-hugetlb-add-migration-hwpoisoned-entry-check-in-hugetlb_change_protection.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-hugetlb-add-migration-hwpoisoned-entry-check-in-hugetlb_change_protection.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-hugetlb-add-migration-hwpoisoned-entry-check-in-hugetlb_change_protection.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/hugetlb: add migration/hwpoisoned entry check in hugetlb_change_protection There is a race condition between hugepage migration and change_protection(), where hugetlb_change_protection() doesn't care about migration entries and wrongly overwrites them. That causes unexpected results like kernel crash. HWPoison entries also can cause the same problem. This patch adds is_hugetlb_entry_(migration|hwpoisoned) check in this function to do proper actions. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2.6.36+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/hugetlb.c~mm-hugetlb-add-migration-hwpoisoned-entry-check-in-hugetlb_change_protection mm/hugetlb.c --- a/mm/hugetlb.c~mm-hugetlb-add-migration-hwpoisoned-entry-check-in-hugetlb_change_protection +++ a/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -3372,7 +3372,26 @@ unsigned long hugetlb_change_protection( spin_unlock(ptl); continue; } - if (!huge_pte_none(huge_ptep_get(ptep))) { + pte = huge_ptep_get(ptep); + if (unlikely(is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned(pte))) { + spin_unlock(ptl); + continue; + } + if (unlikely(is_hugetlb_entry_migration(pte))) { + swp_entry_t entry = pte_to_swp_entry(pte); + + if (is_write_migration_entry(entry)) { + pte_t newpte; + + make_migration_entry_read(&entry); + newpte = swp_entry_to_pte(entry); + set_huge_pte_at(mm, address, ptep, newpte); + pages++; + } + spin_unlock(ptl); + continue; + } + if (!huge_pte_none(pte)) { pte = huge_ptep_get_and_clear(mm, address, ptep); pte = pte_mkhuge(huge_pte_modify(pte, newprot)); pte = arch_make_huge_pte(pte, vma, NULL, 0); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-softdirty-addresses-before-vmas-in-pte-holes-arent-softdirty.patch memory-hotplug-add-sysfs-zones_online_to-attribute.patch memory-hotplug-add-sysfs-zones_online_to-attribute-fix-3.patch memory-hotplug-add-sysfs-zones_online_to-attribute-fix-4.patch mm-thp-dont-hold-mmap_sem-in-khugepaged-when-allocating-thp.patch mm-compaction-defer-each-zone-individually-instead-of-preferred-zone.patch mm-compaction-defer-each-zone-individually-instead-of-preferred-zone-fix.patch mm-compaction-do-not-count-compact_stall-if-all-zones-skipped-compaction.patch mm-compaction-do-not-recheck-suitable_migration_target-under-lock.patch mm-compaction-move-pageblock-checks-up-from-isolate_migratepages_range.patch mm-compaction-reduce-zone-checking-frequency-in-the-migration-scanner.patch mm-compaction-khugepaged-should-not-give-up-due-to-need_resched.patch mm-compaction-khugepaged-should-not-give-up-due-to-need_resched-fix.patch mm-compaction-periodically-drop-lock-and-restore-irqs-in-scanners.patch mm-compaction-skip-rechecks-when-lock-was-already-held.patch mm-compaction-remember-position-within-pageblock-in-free-pages-scanner.patch mm-compaction-skip-buddy-pages-by-their-order-in-the-migrate-scanner.patch mm-rename-allocflags_to_migratetype-for-clarity.patch mm-compaction-pass-gfp-mask-to-compact_control.patch mempolicy-change-alloc_pages_vma-to-use-mpol_cond_put.patch mempolicy-change-get_task_policy-to-return-default_policy-rather-than-null.patch mempolicy-sanitize-the-usage-of-get_task_policy.patch mempolicy-remove-the-task-arg-of-vma_policy_mof-and-simplify-it.patch mempolicy-introduce-__get_vma_policy-export-get_task_policy.patch mempolicy-fix-show_numa_map-vs-exec-do_set_mempolicy-race.patch mempolicy-kill-do_set_mempolicy-down_writemm-mmap_sem.patch mempolicy-unexport-get_vma_policy-and-remove-its-task-arg.patch introduce-dump_vma.patch introduce-dump_vma-fix.patch introduce-vm_bug_on_vma.patch convert-a-few-vm_bug_on-callers-to-vm_bug_on_vma.patch mm-softdirty-enable-write-notifications-on-vmas-after-vm_softdirty-cleared.patch mm-softdirty-unmapped-addresses-between-vmas-are-clean.patch mm-hugetlb-reduce-arch-dependent-code-around-follow_huge_.patch mm-hugetlb-take-page-table-lock-in-follow_huge_pmd.patch mm-hugetlb-fix-getting-refcount-0-page-in-hugetlb_fault.patch mm-hugetlb-add-migration-hwpoisoned-entry-check-in-hugetlb_change_protection.patch mm-hugetlb-add-migration-entry-check-in-__unmap_hugepage_range.patch mm-introduce-do_shared_fault-and-drop-do_fault-fix-fix.patch do_shared_fault-check-that-mmap_sem-is-held.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