[PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 178/305] mm: hugetlb: call huge_pte_alloc() only if ptep is null
Kamal Mostafa
kamal at canonical.com
Fri Jan 15 23:59:52 UTC 2016
4.2.8-ckt2 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
---8<------------------------------------------------------------
From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi at ah.jp.nec.com>
commit 0d777df5d8953293be090d9ab5a355db893e8357 upstream.
Currently at the beginning of hugetlb_fault(), we call huge_pte_offset()
and check whether the obtained *ptep is a migration/hwpoison entry or
not. And if not, then we get to call huge_pte_alloc(). This is racy
because the *ptep could turn into migration/hwpoison entry after the
huge_pte_offset() check. This race results in BUG_ON in
huge_pte_alloc().
We don't have to call huge_pte_alloc() when the huge_pte_offset()
returns non-NULL, so let's fix this bug with moving the code into else
block.
Note that the *ptep could turn into a migration/hwpoison entry after
this block, but that's not a problem because we have another
!pte_present check later (we never go into hugetlb_no_page() in that
case.)
Fixes: 290408d4a250 ("hugetlb: hugepage migration core")
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi at ah.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj at alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes at google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd at google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen at intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman at suse.de>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim at lge.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index f70850e..080ed4b 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3350,12 +3350,12 @@ int hugetlb_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
} else if (unlikely(is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned(entry)))
return VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE |
VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX(hstate_index(h));
+ } else {
+ ptep = huge_pte_alloc(mm, address, huge_page_size(h));
+ if (!ptep)
+ return VM_FAULT_OOM;
}
- ptep = huge_pte_alloc(mm, address, huge_page_size(h));
- if (!ptep)
- return VM_FAULT_OOM;
-
mapping = vma->vm_file->f_mapping;
idx = vma_hugecache_offset(h, vma, address);
--
1.9.1
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