[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "tmpfs: fix shmem_getpage_gfp() VM_BUG_ON" has been added to staging queue

[Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    tmpfs: fix shmem_getpage_gfp() VM_BUG_ON

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Herton

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>From ccb8539a11acffd2012be03ac3dc70ae4597bf62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hugh Dickins <hughd at google.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:15:03 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] tmpfs: fix shmem_getpage_gfp() VM_BUG_ON

commit 215c02bc33bbd5ff4d7379a909462d11f0103218 upstream.

Fuzzing with trinity hit the "impossible" VM_BUG_ON(error) (which Fedora
has converted to WARNING) in shmem_getpage_gfp():

  WARNING: at mm/shmem.c:1151 shmem_getpage_gfp+0xa5c/0xa70()
  Pid: 29795, comm: trinity-child4 Not tainted 3.7.0-rc2+ #49
  Call Trace:
    warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
    warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
    shmem_getpage_gfp+0xa5c/0xa70
    shmem_fault+0x4f/0xa0
    __do_fault+0x71/0x5c0
    handle_pte_fault+0x97/0xae0
    handle_mm_fault+0x289/0x350
    __do_page_fault+0x18e/0x530
    do_page_fault+0x2b/0x50
    page_fault+0x28/0x30
    tracesys+0xe1/0xe6

Thanks to Johannes for pointing to truncation: free_swap_and_cache()
only does a trylock on the page, so the page lock we've held since
before confirming swap is not enough to protect against truncation.

What cleanup is needed in this case? Just delete_from_swap_cache(),
which takes care of the memcg uncharge.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd at google.com>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes at cmpxchg.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
 mm/shmem.c |   16 ++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 06d48ca..c7f7a77 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1154,8 +1154,20 @@ repeat:
 		if (!error) {
 			error = shmem_add_to_page_cache(page, mapping, index,
 						gfp, swp_to_radix_entry(swap));
-			/* We already confirmed swap, and make no allocation */
-			VM_BUG_ON(error);
+			/*
+			 * We already confirmed swap under page lock, and make
+			 * no memory allocation here, so usually no possibility
+			 * of error; but free_swap_and_cache() only trylocks a
+			 * page, so it is just possible that the entry has been
+			 * truncated or holepunched since swap was confirmed.
+			 * shmem_undo_range() will have done some of the
+			 * unaccounting, now delete_from_swap_cache() will do
+			 * the rest (including mem_cgroup_uncharge_swapcache).
+			 * Reset swap.val? No, leave it so "failed" goes back to
+			 * "repeat": reading a hole and writing should succeed.
+			 */
+			if (error)
+				delete_from_swap_cache(page);
 		}
 		if (error)
 			goto failed;
--
1.7.9.5