linux-toradex.git/mm/memory.c, branch v3.18.4

mm: propagate error from stack expansion even for guard page

2015-01-16T14:59:57+00:00

commit fee7e49d45149fba60156f5b59014f764d3e3728 upstream.

Jay Foad reports that the address sanitizer test (asan) sometimes gets
confused by a stack pointer that ends up being outside the stack vma
that is reported by /proc/maps.

This happens due to an interaction between RLIMIT_STACK and the guard
page: when we do the guard page check, we ignore the potential error
from the stack expansion, which effectively results in a missing guard
page, since the expected stack expansion won't have been done.

And since /proc/maps explicitly ignores the guard page (commit
d7824370e263: "mm: fix up some user-visible effects of the stack guard
page"), the stack pointer ends up being outside the reported stack area.

This is the minimal patch: it just propagates the error.  It also
effectively makes the guard page part of the stack limit, which in turn
measn that the actual real stack is one page less than the stack limit.

Let's see if anybody notices.  We could teach acct_stack_growth() to
allow an extra page for a grow-up/grow-down stack in the rlimit test,
but I don't want to add more complexity if it isn't needed.

Reported-and-tested-by: Jay Foad 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: protect set_page_dirty() from ongoing truncation

2015-01-16T14:59:57+00:00

commit 2d6d7f98284648c5ed113fe22a132148950b140f upstream.

Tejun, while reviewing the code, spotted the following race condition
between the dirtying and truncation of a page:

__set_page_dirty_nobuffers()       __delete_from_page_cache()
  if (TestSetPageDirty(page))
                                     page->mapping = NULL
				     if (PageDirty())
				       dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
				       dec_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
    if (page->mapping)
      account_page_dirtied(page)
        __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
	__inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);

which results in an imbalance of NR_FILE_DIRTY and BDI_RECLAIMABLE.

Dirtiers usually lock out truncation, either by holding the page lock
directly, or in case of zap_pte_range(), by pinning the mapcount with
the page table lock held.  The notable exception to this rule, though,
is do_wp_page(), for which this race exists.  However, do_wp_page()
already waits for a locked page to unlock before setting the dirty bit,
in order to prevent a race where clear_page_dirty() misses the page bit
in the presence of dirty ptes.  Upgrade that wait to a fully locked
set_page_dirty() to also cover the situation explained above.

Afterwards, the code in set_page_dirty() dealing with a truncation race
is no longer needed.  Remove it.

Reported-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: fix swapoff hang after page migration and fork

2014-12-03T17:36:03+00:00

I've been seeing swapoff hangs in recent testing: it's cycling around
trying unsuccessfully to find an mm for some remaining pages of swap.

I have been exercising swap and page migration more heavily recently,
and now notice a long-standing error in copy_one_pte(): it's trying to
add dst_mm to swapoff's mmlist when it finds a swap entry, but is doing
so even when it's a migration entry or an hwpoison entry.

Which wouldn't matter much, except it adds dst_mm next to src_mm,
assuming src_mm is already on the mmlist: which may not be so.  Then if
pages are later swapped out from dst_mm, swapoff won't be able to find
where to replace them.

There's already a !non_swap_entry() test for stats: move that up before
the swap_duplicate() and the addition to mmlist.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Kelley Nielsen 
Cc: 	[2.6.18+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

zap_pte_range: update addr when forcing flush after TLB batching faiure

2014-10-28T20:16:28+00:00

When unmapping a range of pages in zap_pte_range, the page being
unmapped is added to an mmu_gather_batch structure for asynchronous
freeing. If we run out of space in the batch structure before the range
has been completely unmapped, then we break out of the loop, force a
TLB flush and free the pages that we have batched so far. If there are
further pages to unmap, then we resume the loop where we left off.

Unfortunately, we forget to update addr when we break out of the loop,
which causes us to truncate the range being invalidated as the end
address is exclusive. When we re-enter the loop at the same address, the
page has already been freed and the pte_present test will fail, meaning
that we do not reconsider the address for invalidation.

This patch fixes the problem by incrementing addr by the PAGE_SIZE
before breaking out of the loop on batch failure.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: softdirty: enable write notifications on VMAs after VM_SOFTDIRTY cleared

2014-10-14T00:18:28+00:00

For VMAs that don't want write notifications, PTEs created for read faults
have their write bit set.  If the read fault happens after VM_SOFTDIRTY is
cleared, then the PTE's softdirty bit will remain clear after subsequent
writes.

Here's a simple code snippet to demonstrate the bug:

  char* m = mmap(NULL, getpagesize(), PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
                 MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_SHARED, -1, 0);
  system("echo 4 > /proc/$PPID/clear_refs"); /* clear VM_SOFTDIRTY */
  assert(*m == '\0');     /* new PTE allows write access */
  assert(!soft_dirty(x));
  *m = 'x';               /* should dirty the page */
  assert(soft_dirty(x));  /* fails */

With this patch, write notifications are enabled when VM_SOFTDIRTY is
cleared.  Furthermore, to avoid unnecessary faults, write notifications
are disabled when VM_SOFTDIRTY is set.

As a side effect of enabling and disabling write notifications with
care, this patch fixes a bug in mprotect where vm_page_prot bits set by
drivers were zapped on mprotect.  An analogous bug was fixed in mmap by
commit c9d0bf241451 ("mm: uncached vma support with writenotify").

Signed-off-by: Peter Feiner 
Reported-by: Peter Feiner 
Suggested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov 
Cc: Jamie Liu 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: softdirty: keep bit when zapping file pte

2014-09-26T15:10:35+00:00

This fixes the same bug as b43790eedd31 ("mm: softdirty: don't forget to
save file map softdiry bit on unmap") and 9aed8614af5a ("mm/memory.c:
don't forget to set softdirty on file mapped fault") where the return
value of pte_*mksoft_dirty was being ignored.

To be sure that no other pte/pmd "mk" function return values were being
ignored, I annotated the functions in arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
with __must_check and rebuilt.

The userspace effect of this bug is that the softdirty mark might be
lost if a file mapped pte get zapped.

Signed-off-by: Peter Feiner 
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov 
Cc: Jamie Liu 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: 	[3.12+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

2014-09-22T18:58:23+00:00

Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Two very simple bugfixes, affecting all supported architectures"

[ Two? There's three commits in here.  Oh well, I guess Paolo didn't
  count the preparatory symbol export ]

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  KVM: correct null pid check in kvm_vcpu_yield_to()
  KVM: check for !is_zero_pfn() in kvm_is_mmio_pfn()
  mm: export symbol dependencies of is_zero_pfn()

mm: export symbol dependencies of is_zero_pfn()

2014-09-14T14:25:14+00:00

In order to make the static inline function is_zero_pfn() callable by
modules, export its symbol dependencies 'zero_pfn' and (for s390 and
mips) 'zero_page_mask'.

We need this for KVM, as CONFIG_KVM is a tristate for all supported
architectures except ARM and arm64, and testing a pfn whether it refers
to the zero page is required to correctly distinguish the zero page
from other special RAM ranges that may also have the PG_reserved bit
set, but need to be treated as MMIO memory.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel 
Acked-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

x86,mm: fix pte_special versus pte_numa

2014-08-29T23:28:16+00:00

Sasha Levin has shown oopses on ffffea0003480048 and ffffea0003480008 at
mm/memory.c:1132, running Trinity on different 3.16-rc-next kernels:
where zap_pte_range() checks page->mapping to see if PageAnon(page).

Those addresses fit struct pages for pfns d2001 and d2000, and in each
dump a register or a stack slot showed d2001730 or d2000730: pte flags
0x730 are PCD ACCESSED PROTNONE SPECIAL IOMAP; and Sasha's e820 map has
a hole between cfffffff and 100000000, which would need special access.

Commit c46a7c817e66 ("x86: define _PAGE_NUMA by reusing software bits on
the PMD and PTE levels") has broken vm_normal_page(): a PROTNONE SPECIAL
pte no longer passes the pte_special() test, so zap_pte_range() goes on
to try to access a non-existent struct page.

Fix this by refining pte_special() (SPECIAL with PRESENT or PROTNONE) to
complement pte_numa() (SPECIAL with neither PRESENT nor PROTNONE).  A
hint that this was a problem was that c46a7c817e66 added pte_numa() test
to vm_normal_page(), and moved its is_zero_pfn() test from slow to fast
path: This was papering over a pte_special() snag when the zero page was
encountered during zap.  This patch reverts vm_normal_page() to how it
was before, relying on pte_special().

It still appears that this patch may be incomplete: aren't there other
places which need to be handling PROTNONE along with PRESENT?  For
example, pte_mknuma() clears _PAGE_PRESENT and sets _PAGE_NUMA, but on a
PROT_NONE area, that would make it pte_special().  This is side-stepped
by the fact that NUMA hinting faults skipped PROT_NONE VMAs and there
are no grounds where a NUMA hinting fault on a PROT_NONE VMA would be
interesting.

Fixes: c46a7c817e66 ("x86: define _PAGE_NUMA by reusing software bits on the PMD and PTE levels")
Reported-by: Sasha Levin 
Tested-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: 	[3.16]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

arm64,ia64,ppc,s390,sh,tile,um,x86,mm: remove default gate area

2014-08-08T22:57:27+00:00

The core mm code will provide a default gate area based on
FIXADDR_USER_START and FIXADDR_USER_END if
!defined(__HAVE_ARCH_GATE_AREA) && defined(AT_SYSINFO_EHDR).

This default is only useful for ia64.  arm64, ppc, s390, sh, tile, 64-bit
UML, and x86_32 have their own code just to disable it.  arm, 32-bit UML,
and x86_64 have gate areas, but they have their own implementations.

This gets rid of the default and moves the code into ia64.

This should save some code on architectures without a gate area: it's now
possible to inline the gate_area functions in the default case.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Acked-by: Nathan Lynch 
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt  [in principle]
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger  [for um]
Acked-by: Will Deacon  [for arm64]
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Nathan Lynch 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds