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. Fixes: 290408d4a2 ("hugetlb: hugepage migration core") 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: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@xxxxxx> Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@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 @@ -3384,7 +3384,26 @@ 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-add-kpf_zero_page-flag-for-proc-kpageflags.patch mm-hugetlb-reduce-arch-dependent-code-around-follow_huge_.patch mm-hugetlb-pmd_huge-returns-true-for-non-present-hugepage.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-hugetlb-fix-suboptimal-migration-hwpoisoned-entry-check.patch mm-hugetlb-cleanup-and-rename-is_hugetlb_entry_migrationhwpoisoned.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