From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@xxxxxxxxx> 3.4.107-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ commit b800c91a0517071156e772d4fb329ad33590da62 upstream. Fix for BUG_ON(anon_vma->degree) splashes in unlink_anon_vmas() ("kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:399!") caused by commit 7a3ef208e662 ("mm: prevent endless growth of anon_vma hierarchy") Anon_vma_clone() is usually called for a copy of source vma in destination argument. If source vma has anon_vma it should be already in dst->anon_vma. NULL in dst->anon_vma is used as a sign that it's called from anon_vma_fork(). In this case anon_vma_clone() finds anon_vma for reusing. Vma_adjust() calls it differently and this breaks anon_vma reusing logic: anon_vma_clone() links vma to old anon_vma and updates degree counters but vma_adjust() overrides vma->anon_vma right after that. As a result final unlink_anon_vmas() decrements degree for wrong anon_vma. This patch assigns ->anon_vma before calling anon_vma_clone(). Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-and-tested-by: Chris Clayton <chris2553@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-and-tested-by: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@xxxxxxx> Reported-and-tested-by: Chih-Wei Huang <cwhuang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Forrest <dan.forrest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [lizf: Backported to 3.4: define variable @error and return this instead of returning -ENOMEM] Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mmap.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index 84dc5fc..f880ca1 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -567,9 +567,14 @@ again: remove_next = 1 + (end > next->vm_end); * shrinking vma had, to cover any anon pages imported. */ if (exporter && exporter->anon_vma && !importer->anon_vma) { - if (anon_vma_clone(importer, exporter)) - return -ENOMEM; + int error; + importer->anon_vma = exporter->anon_vma; + error = anon_vma_clone(importer, exporter); + if (error) { + importer->anon_vma = NULL; + return error; + } } } -- 1.9.1 -- 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