[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "drm/ttm: Fix possible stack overflow by recursive shrinker calls." has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Mon Sep 15 22:07:58 UTC 2014


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

    drm/ttm: Fix possible stack overflow by recursive shrinker calls.

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.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-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.7.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From ed98dbb713df9e2a2cc2976cb5a6768f2aed42a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel at I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 20:02:03 +0900
Subject: drm/ttm: Fix possible stack overflow by recursive shrinker calls.

commit 71336e011d1d2312bcbcaa8fcec7365024f3a95d upstream.

While ttm_dma_pool_shrink_scan() tries to take mutex before doing GFP_KERNEL
allocation, ttm_pool_shrink_scan() does not do it. This can result in stack
overflow if kmalloc() in ttm_page_pool_free() triggered recursion due to
memory pressure.

  shrink_slab()
  => ttm_pool_shrink_scan()
     => ttm_page_pool_free()
        => kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL)
           => shrink_slab()
              => ttm_pool_shrink_scan()
                 => ttm_page_pool_free()
                    => kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL)

Change ttm_pool_shrink_scan() to do like ttm_dma_pool_shrink_scan() does.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel at I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c
index 863bef9..deba59b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_page_alloc.c
@@ -391,14 +391,17 @@ out:
 static unsigned long
 ttm_pool_shrink_scan(struct shrinker *shrink, struct shrink_control *sc)
 {
-	static atomic_t start_pool = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
+	static DEFINE_MUTEX(lock);
+	static unsigned start_pool;
 	unsigned i;
-	unsigned pool_offset = atomic_add_return(1, &start_pool);
+	unsigned pool_offset;
 	struct ttm_page_pool *pool;
 	int shrink_pages = sc->nr_to_scan;
 	unsigned long freed = 0;

-	pool_offset = pool_offset % NUM_POOLS;
+	if (!mutex_trylock(&lock))
+		return SHRINK_STOP;
+	pool_offset = ++start_pool % NUM_POOLS;
 	/* select start pool in round robin fashion */
 	for (i = 0; i < NUM_POOLS; ++i) {
 		unsigned nr_free = shrink_pages;
@@ -408,6 +411,7 @@ ttm_pool_shrink_scan(struct shrinker *shrink, struct shrink_control *sc)
 		shrink_pages = ttm_page_pool_free(pool, nr_free);
 		freed += nr_free - shrink_pages;
 	}
+	mutex_unlock(&lock);
 	return freed;
 }

--
1.9.1





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