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<title>swap: fix shmem swapping when more than 8 areas</title>
<updated>2012-06-22T18:36:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
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<published>2012-06-16T00:55:50+00:00</published>
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commit 9b15b817f3d62409290fd56fe3cbb076a931bb0a upstream.

Minchan Kim reports that when a system has many swap areas, and tmpfs
swaps out to the ninth or more, shmem_getpage_gfp()'s attempts to read
back the page cannot locate it, and the read fails with -ENOMEM.

Whoops.  Yes, I blindly followed read_swap_header()'s pte_to_swp_entry(
swp_entry_to_pte()) technique for determining maximum usable swap
offset, without stopping to realize that that actually depends upon the
pte swap encoding shifting swap offset to the higher bits and truncating
it there.  Whereas our radix_tree swap encoding leaves offset in the
lower bits: it's swap "type" (that is, index of swap area) that was
truncated.

Fix it by reducing the SWP_TYPE_SHIFT() in swapops.h, and removing the
broken radix_to_swp_entry(swp_to_radix_entry()) from read_swap_header().

This does not reduce the usable size of a swap area any further, it
leaves it as claimed when making the original commit: no change from 3.0
on x86_64, nor on i386 without PAE; but 3.0's 512GB is reduced to 128GB
per swapfile on i386 with PAE.  It's not a change I would have risked
five years ago, but with x86_64 supported for ten years, I believe it's
appropriate now.

Hmm, and what if some architecture implements its swap pte with offset
encoded below type? That would equally break the maximum usable swap
offset check.  Happily, they all follow the same tradition of encoding
offset above type, but I'll prepare a check on that for next.

Reported-and-Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 9b15b817f3d62409290fd56fe3cbb076a931bb0a upstream.

Minchan Kim reports that when a system has many swap areas, and tmpfs
swaps out to the ninth or more, shmem_getpage_gfp()'s attempts to read
back the page cannot locate it, and the read fails with -ENOMEM.

Whoops.  Yes, I blindly followed read_swap_header()'s pte_to_swp_entry(
swp_entry_to_pte()) technique for determining maximum usable swap
offset, without stopping to realize that that actually depends upon the
pte swap encoding shifting swap offset to the higher bits and truncating
it there.  Whereas our radix_tree swap encoding leaves offset in the
lower bits: it's swap "type" (that is, index of swap area) that was
truncated.

Fix it by reducing the SWP_TYPE_SHIFT() in swapops.h, and removing the
broken radix_to_swp_entry(swp_to_radix_entry()) from read_swap_header().

This does not reduce the usable size of a swap area any further, it
leaves it as claimed when making the original commit: no change from 3.0
on x86_64, nor on i386 without PAE; but 3.0's 512GB is reduced to 128GB
per swapfile on i386 with PAE.  It's not a change I would have risked
five years ago, but with x86_64 supported for ten years, I believe it's
appropriate now.

Hmm, and what if some architecture implements its swap pte with offset
encoded below type? That would equally break the maximum usable swap
offset check.  Happily, they all follow the same tradition of encoding
offset above type, but I'll prepare a check on that for next.

Reported-and-Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>swapon: check validity of swap_flags</title>
<updated>2012-03-29T00:14:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-28T21:42:42+00:00</published>
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Most system calls taking flags first check that the flags passed in are
valid, and that helps userspace to detect when new flags are supported.

But swapon never did so: start checking now, to help if we ever want to
support more swap_flags in future.

It's difficult to get stray bits set in an int, and swapon is not widely
used, so this is most unlikely to break any userspace; but we can just
revert if it turns out to do so.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Most system calls taking flags first check that the flags passed in are
valid, and that helps userspace to detect when new flags are supported.

But swapon never did so: start checking now, to help if we ever want to
support more swap_flags in future.

It's difficult to get stray bits set in an int, and swapon is not widely
used, so this is most unlikely to break any userspace; but we can just
revert if it turns out to do so.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)</title>
<updated>2012-03-22T16:04:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-22T16:04:48+00:00</published>
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Merge first batch of patches from Andrew Morton:
 "A few misc things and all the MM queue"

* emailed from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (92 commits)
  memcg: avoid THP split in task migration
  thp: add HPAGE_PMD_* definitions for !CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
  memcg: clean up existing move charge code
  mm/memcontrol.c: remove unnecessary 'break' in mem_cgroup_read()
  mm/memcontrol.c: remove redundant BUG_ON() in mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event()
  mm/memcontrol.c: s/stealed/stolen/
  memcg: fix performance of mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat()
  memcg: remove PCG_FILE_MAPPED
  memcg: use new logic for page stat accounting
  memcg: remove PCG_MOVE_LOCK flag from page_cgroup
  memcg: simplify move_account() check
  memcg: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(mem_cgroup_update_page_stat)
  memcg: kill dead prev_priority stubs
  memcg: remove PCG_CACHE page_cgroup flag
  memcg: let css_get_next() rely upon rcu_read_lock()
  cgroup: revert ss_id_lock to spinlock
  idr: make idr_get_next() good for rcu_read_lock()
  memcg: remove unnecessary thp check in page stat accounting
  memcg: remove redundant returns
  memcg: enum lru_list lru
  ...
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Merge first batch of patches from Andrew Morton:
 "A few misc things and all the MM queue"

* emailed from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (92 commits)
  memcg: avoid THP split in task migration
  thp: add HPAGE_PMD_* definitions for !CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
  memcg: clean up existing move charge code
  mm/memcontrol.c: remove unnecessary 'break' in mem_cgroup_read()
  mm/memcontrol.c: remove redundant BUG_ON() in mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event()
  mm/memcontrol.c: s/stealed/stolen/
  memcg: fix performance of mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat()
  memcg: remove PCG_FILE_MAPPED
  memcg: use new logic for page stat accounting
  memcg: remove PCG_MOVE_LOCK flag from page_cgroup
  memcg: simplify move_account() check
  memcg: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(mem_cgroup_update_page_stat)
  memcg: kill dead prev_priority stubs
  memcg: remove PCG_CACHE page_cgroup flag
  memcg: let css_get_next() rely upon rcu_read_lock()
  cgroup: revert ss_id_lock to spinlock
  idr: make idr_get_next() good for rcu_read_lock()
  memcg: remove unnecessary thp check in page stat accounting
  memcg: remove redundant returns
  memcg: enum lru_list lru
  ...
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<entry>
<title>swap: don't do discard if no discard option added</title>
<updated>2012-03-22T00:55:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shaohua Li</name>
<email>shli@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-21T23:34:17+00:00</published>
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When swapon() was not passed the SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD option, sys_swapon()
will still perform a discard operation.  This can cause problems if
discard is slow or buggy.

Reverse the order of the check so that a discard operation is performed
only if the sys_swapon() caller is attempting to enable discard.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fusionio.com&gt;
Reported-by: Holger Kiehl &lt;Holger.Kiehl@dwd.de&gt;
Tested-by: Holger Kiehl &lt;Holger.Kiehl@dwd.de&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When swapon() was not passed the SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD option, sys_swapon()
will still perform a discard operation.  This can cause problems if
discard is slow or buggy.

Reverse the order of the check so that a discard operation is performed
only if the sys_swapon() caller is attempting to enable discard.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fusionio.com&gt;
Reported-by: Holger Kiehl &lt;Holger.Kiehl@dwd.de&gt;
Tested-by: Holger Kiehl &lt;Holger.Kiehl@dwd.de&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: make swapin readahead skip over holes</title>
<updated>2012-03-22T00:54:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rik van Riel</name>
<email>riel@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-21T23:33:50+00:00</published>
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Ever since abandoning the virtual scan of processes, for scalability
reasons, swap space has been a little more fragmented than before.  This
can lead to the situation where a large memory user is killed, swap space
ends up full of "holes" and swapin readahead is totally ineffective.

On my home system, after killing a leaky firefox it took over an hour to
page just under 2GB of memory back in, slowing the virtual machines down
to a crawl.

This patch makes swapin readahead simply skip over holes, instead of
stopping at them.  This allows the system to swap things back in at rates
of several MB/second, instead of a few hundred kB/second.

The checks done in valid_swaphandles are already done in
read_swap_cache_async as well, allowing us to remove a fair amount of
code.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix it for page_cluster &gt;= 32]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan.kim@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Adrian Drzewiecki &lt;z@drze.net&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Ever since abandoning the virtual scan of processes, for scalability
reasons, swap space has been a little more fragmented than before.  This
can lead to the situation where a large memory user is killed, swap space
ends up full of "holes" and swapin readahead is totally ineffective.

On my home system, after killing a leaky firefox it took over an hour to
page just under 2GB of memory back in, slowing the virtual machines down
to a crawl.

This patch makes swapin readahead simply skip over holes, instead of
stopping at them.  This allows the system to swap things back in at rates
of several MB/second, instead of a few hundred kB/second.

The checks done in valid_swaphandles are already done in
read_swap_cache_async as well, allowing us to remove a fair amount of
code.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix it for page_cluster &gt;= 32]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan.kim@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Adrian Drzewiecki &lt;z@drze.net&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: thp: fix pmd_bad() triggering in code paths holding mmap_sem read mode</title>
<updated>2012-03-22T00:54:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Arcangeli</name>
<email>aarcange@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-21T23:33:42+00:00</published>
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In some cases it may happen that pmd_none_or_clear_bad() is called with
the mmap_sem hold in read mode.  In those cases the huge page faults can
allocate hugepmds under pmd_none_or_clear_bad() and that can trigger a
false positive from pmd_bad() that will not like to see a pmd
materializing as trans huge.

It's not khugepaged causing the problem, khugepaged holds the mmap_sem
in write mode (and all those sites must hold the mmap_sem in read mode
to prevent pagetables to go away from under them, during code review it
seems vm86 mode on 32bit kernels requires that too unless it's
restricted to 1 thread per process or UP builds).  The race is only with
the huge pagefaults that can convert a pmd_none() into a
pmd_trans_huge().

Effectively all these pmd_none_or_clear_bad() sites running with
mmap_sem in read mode are somewhat speculative with the page faults, and
the result is always undefined when they run simultaneously.  This is
probably why it wasn't common to run into this.  For example if the
madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) runs zap_page_range() shortly before the page
fault, the hugepage will not be zapped, if the page fault runs first it
will be zapped.

Altering pmd_bad() not to error out if it finds hugepmds won't be enough
to fix this, because zap_pmd_range would then proceed to call
zap_pte_range (which would be incorrect if the pmd become a
pmd_trans_huge()).

The simplest way to fix this is to read the pmd in the local stack
(regardless of what we read, no need of actual CPU barriers, only
compiler barrier needed), and be sure it is not changing under the code
that computes its value.  Even if the real pmd is changing under the
value we hold on the stack, we don't care.  If we actually end up in
zap_pte_range it means the pmd was not none already and it was not huge,
and it can't become huge from under us (khugepaged locking explained
above).

All we need is to enforce that there is no way anymore that in a code
path like below, pmd_trans_huge can be false, but pmd_none_or_clear_bad
can run into a hugepmd.  The overhead of a barrier() is just a compiler
tweak and should not be measurable (I only added it for THP builds).  I
don't exclude different compiler versions may have prevented the race
too by caching the value of *pmd on the stack (that hasn't been
verified, but it wouldn't be impossible considering
pmd_none_or_clear_bad, pmd_bad, pmd_trans_huge, pmd_none are all inlines
and there's no external function called in between pmd_trans_huge and
pmd_none_or_clear_bad).

		if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) {
			if (next-addr != HPAGE_PMD_SIZE) {
				VM_BUG_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(&amp;tlb-&gt;mm-&gt;mmap_sem));
				split_huge_page_pmd(vma-&gt;vm_mm, pmd);
			} else if (zap_huge_pmd(tlb, vma, pmd, addr))
				continue;
			/* fall through */
		}
		if (pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd))

Because this race condition could be exercised without special
privileges this was reported in CVE-2012-1179.

The race was identified and fully explained by Ulrich who debugged it.
I'm quoting his accurate explanation below, for reference.

====== start quote =======
      mapcount 0 page_mapcount 1
      kernel BUG at mm/huge_memory.c:1384!

    At some point prior to the panic, a "bad pmd ..." message similar to the
    following is logged on the console:

      mm/memory.c:145: bad pmd ffff8800376e1f98(80000000314000e7).

    The "bad pmd ..." message is logged by pmd_clear_bad() before it clears
    the page's PMD table entry.

        143 void pmd_clear_bad(pmd_t *pmd)
        144 {
    -&gt;  145         pmd_ERROR(*pmd);
        146         pmd_clear(pmd);
        147 }

    After the PMD table entry has been cleared, there is an inconsistency
    between the actual number of PMD table entries that are mapping the page
    and the page's map count (_mapcount field in struct page). When the page
    is subsequently reclaimed, __split_huge_page() detects this inconsistency.

       1381         if (mapcount != page_mapcount(page))
       1382                 printk(KERN_ERR "mapcount %d page_mapcount %d\n",
       1383                        mapcount, page_mapcount(page));
    -&gt; 1384         BUG_ON(mapcount != page_mapcount(page));

    The root cause of the problem is a race of two threads in a multithreaded
    process. Thread B incurs a page fault on a virtual address that has never
    been accessed (PMD entry is zero) while Thread A is executing an madvise()
    system call on a virtual address within the same 2 MB (huge page) range.

               virtual address space
              .---------------------.
              |                     |
              |                     |
            .-|---------------------|
            | |                     |
            | |                     |&lt;-- B(fault)
            | |                     |
      2 MB  | |/////////////////////|-.
      huge &lt;  |/////////////////////|  &gt; A(range)
      page  | |/////////////////////|-'
            | |                     |
            | |                     |
            '-|---------------------|
              |                     |
              |                     |
              '---------------------'

    - Thread A is executing an madvise(..., MADV_DONTNEED) system call
      on the virtual address range "A(range)" shown in the picture.

    sys_madvise
      // Acquire the semaphore in shared mode.
      down_read(&amp;current-&gt;mm-&gt;mmap_sem)
      ...
      madvise_vma
        switch (behavior)
        case MADV_DONTNEED:
             madvise_dontneed
               zap_page_range
                 unmap_vmas
                   unmap_page_range
                     zap_pud_range
                       zap_pmd_range
                         //
                         // Assume that this huge page has never been accessed.
                         // I.e. content of the PMD entry is zero (not mapped).
                         //
                         if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) {
                             // We don't get here due to the above assumption.
                         }
                         //
                         // Assume that Thread B incurred a page fault and
             .---------&gt; // sneaks in here as shown below.
             |           //
             |           if (pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd))
             |               {
             |                 if (unlikely(pmd_bad(*pmd)))
             |                     pmd_clear_bad
             |                     {
             |                       pmd_ERROR
             |                         // Log "bad pmd ..." message here.
             |                       pmd_clear
             |                         // Clear the page's PMD entry.
             |                         // Thread B incremented the map count
             |                         // in page_add_new_anon_rmap(), but
             |                         // now the page is no longer mapped
             |                         // by a PMD entry (-&gt; inconsistency).
             |                     }
             |               }
             |
             v
    - Thread B is handling a page fault on virtual address "B(fault)" shown
      in the picture.

    ...
    do_page_fault
      __do_page_fault
        // Acquire the semaphore in shared mode.
        down_read_trylock(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem)
        ...
        handle_mm_fault
          if (pmd_none(*pmd) &amp;&amp; transparent_hugepage_enabled(vma))
              // We get here due to the above assumption (PMD entry is zero).
              do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page
                alloc_hugepage_vma
                  // Allocate a new transparent huge page here.
                ...
                __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page
                  ...
                  spin_lock(&amp;mm-&gt;page_table_lock)
                  ...
                  page_add_new_anon_rmap
                    // Here we increment the page's map count (starts at -1).
                    atomic_set(&amp;page-&gt;_mapcount, 0)
                  set_pmd_at
                    // Here we set the page's PMD entry which will be cleared
                    // when Thread A calls pmd_clear_bad().
                  ...
                  spin_unlock(&amp;mm-&gt;page_table_lock)

    The mmap_sem does not prevent the race because both threads are acquiring
    it in shared mode (down_read).  Thread B holds the page_table_lock while
    the page's map count and PMD table entry are updated.  However, Thread A
    does not synchronize on that lock.

====== end quote =======

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
Reported-by: Ulrich Obergfell &lt;uobergfe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Larry Woodman &lt;lwoodman@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;		[2.6.38+]
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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In some cases it may happen that pmd_none_or_clear_bad() is called with
the mmap_sem hold in read mode.  In those cases the huge page faults can
allocate hugepmds under pmd_none_or_clear_bad() and that can trigger a
false positive from pmd_bad() that will not like to see a pmd
materializing as trans huge.

It's not khugepaged causing the problem, khugepaged holds the mmap_sem
in write mode (and all those sites must hold the mmap_sem in read mode
to prevent pagetables to go away from under them, during code review it
seems vm86 mode on 32bit kernels requires that too unless it's
restricted to 1 thread per process or UP builds).  The race is only with
the huge pagefaults that can convert a pmd_none() into a
pmd_trans_huge().

Effectively all these pmd_none_or_clear_bad() sites running with
mmap_sem in read mode are somewhat speculative with the page faults, and
the result is always undefined when they run simultaneously.  This is
probably why it wasn't common to run into this.  For example if the
madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) runs zap_page_range() shortly before the page
fault, the hugepage will not be zapped, if the page fault runs first it
will be zapped.

Altering pmd_bad() not to error out if it finds hugepmds won't be enough
to fix this, because zap_pmd_range would then proceed to call
zap_pte_range (which would be incorrect if the pmd become a
pmd_trans_huge()).

The simplest way to fix this is to read the pmd in the local stack
(regardless of what we read, no need of actual CPU barriers, only
compiler barrier needed), and be sure it is not changing under the code
that computes its value.  Even if the real pmd is changing under the
value we hold on the stack, we don't care.  If we actually end up in
zap_pte_range it means the pmd was not none already and it was not huge,
and it can't become huge from under us (khugepaged locking explained
above).

All we need is to enforce that there is no way anymore that in a code
path like below, pmd_trans_huge can be false, but pmd_none_or_clear_bad
can run into a hugepmd.  The overhead of a barrier() is just a compiler
tweak and should not be measurable (I only added it for THP builds).  I
don't exclude different compiler versions may have prevented the race
too by caching the value of *pmd on the stack (that hasn't been
verified, but it wouldn't be impossible considering
pmd_none_or_clear_bad, pmd_bad, pmd_trans_huge, pmd_none are all inlines
and there's no external function called in between pmd_trans_huge and
pmd_none_or_clear_bad).

		if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) {
			if (next-addr != HPAGE_PMD_SIZE) {
				VM_BUG_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(&amp;tlb-&gt;mm-&gt;mmap_sem));
				split_huge_page_pmd(vma-&gt;vm_mm, pmd);
			} else if (zap_huge_pmd(tlb, vma, pmd, addr))
				continue;
			/* fall through */
		}
		if (pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd))

Because this race condition could be exercised without special
privileges this was reported in CVE-2012-1179.

The race was identified and fully explained by Ulrich who debugged it.
I'm quoting his accurate explanation below, for reference.

====== start quote =======
      mapcount 0 page_mapcount 1
      kernel BUG at mm/huge_memory.c:1384!

    At some point prior to the panic, a "bad pmd ..." message similar to the
    following is logged on the console:

      mm/memory.c:145: bad pmd ffff8800376e1f98(80000000314000e7).

    The "bad pmd ..." message is logged by pmd_clear_bad() before it clears
    the page's PMD table entry.

        143 void pmd_clear_bad(pmd_t *pmd)
        144 {
    -&gt;  145         pmd_ERROR(*pmd);
        146         pmd_clear(pmd);
        147 }

    After the PMD table entry has been cleared, there is an inconsistency
    between the actual number of PMD table entries that are mapping the page
    and the page's map count (_mapcount field in struct page). When the page
    is subsequently reclaimed, __split_huge_page() detects this inconsistency.

       1381         if (mapcount != page_mapcount(page))
       1382                 printk(KERN_ERR "mapcount %d page_mapcount %d\n",
       1383                        mapcount, page_mapcount(page));
    -&gt; 1384         BUG_ON(mapcount != page_mapcount(page));

    The root cause of the problem is a race of two threads in a multithreaded
    process. Thread B incurs a page fault on a virtual address that has never
    been accessed (PMD entry is zero) while Thread A is executing an madvise()
    system call on a virtual address within the same 2 MB (huge page) range.

               virtual address space
              .---------------------.
              |                     |
              |                     |
            .-|---------------------|
            | |                     |
            | |                     |&lt;-- B(fault)
            | |                     |
      2 MB  | |/////////////////////|-.
      huge &lt;  |/////////////////////|  &gt; A(range)
      page  | |/////////////////////|-'
            | |                     |
            | |                     |
            '-|---------------------|
              |                     |
              |                     |
              '---------------------'

    - Thread A is executing an madvise(..., MADV_DONTNEED) system call
      on the virtual address range "A(range)" shown in the picture.

    sys_madvise
      // Acquire the semaphore in shared mode.
      down_read(&amp;current-&gt;mm-&gt;mmap_sem)
      ...
      madvise_vma
        switch (behavior)
        case MADV_DONTNEED:
             madvise_dontneed
               zap_page_range
                 unmap_vmas
                   unmap_page_range
                     zap_pud_range
                       zap_pmd_range
                         //
                         // Assume that this huge page has never been accessed.
                         // I.e. content of the PMD entry is zero (not mapped).
                         //
                         if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) {
                             // We don't get here due to the above assumption.
                         }
                         //
                         // Assume that Thread B incurred a page fault and
             .---------&gt; // sneaks in here as shown below.
             |           //
             |           if (pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd))
             |               {
             |                 if (unlikely(pmd_bad(*pmd)))
             |                     pmd_clear_bad
             |                     {
             |                       pmd_ERROR
             |                         // Log "bad pmd ..." message here.
             |                       pmd_clear
             |                         // Clear the page's PMD entry.
             |                         // Thread B incremented the map count
             |                         // in page_add_new_anon_rmap(), but
             |                         // now the page is no longer mapped
             |                         // by a PMD entry (-&gt; inconsistency).
             |                     }
             |               }
             |
             v
    - Thread B is handling a page fault on virtual address "B(fault)" shown
      in the picture.

    ...
    do_page_fault
      __do_page_fault
        // Acquire the semaphore in shared mode.
        down_read_trylock(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem)
        ...
        handle_mm_fault
          if (pmd_none(*pmd) &amp;&amp; transparent_hugepage_enabled(vma))
              // We get here due to the above assumption (PMD entry is zero).
              do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page
                alloc_hugepage_vma
                  // Allocate a new transparent huge page here.
                ...
                __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page
                  ...
                  spin_lock(&amp;mm-&gt;page_table_lock)
                  ...
                  page_add_new_anon_rmap
                    // Here we increment the page's map count (starts at -1).
                    atomic_set(&amp;page-&gt;_mapcount, 0)
                  set_pmd_at
                    // Here we set the page's PMD entry which will be cleared
                    // when Thread A calls pmd_clear_bad().
                  ...
                  spin_unlock(&amp;mm-&gt;page_table_lock)

    The mmap_sem does not prevent the race because both threads are acquiring
    it in shared mode (down_read).  Thread B holds the page_table_lock while
    the page's map count and PMD table entry are updated.  However, Thread A
    does not synchronize on that lock.

====== end quote =======

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
Reported-by: Ulrich Obergfell &lt;uobergfe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Larry Woodman &lt;lwoodman@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;		[2.6.38+]
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security</title>
<updated>2012-03-21T20:25:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-21T20:25:04+00:00</published>
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Pull security subsystem updates for 3.4 from James Morris:
 "The main addition here is the new Yama security module from Kees Cook,
  which was discussed at the Linux Security Summit last year.  Its
  purpose is to collect miscellaneous DAC security enhancements in one
  place.  This also marks a departure in policy for LSM modules, which
  were previously limited to being standalone access control systems.
  Chromium OS is using Yama, and I believe there are plans for Ubuntu,
  at least.

  This patchset also includes maintenance updates for AppArmor, TOMOYO
  and others."

Fix trivial conflict in &lt;net/sock.h&gt; due to the jumo_label-&gt;static_key
rename.

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (38 commits)
  AppArmor: Fix location of const qualifier on generated string tables
  TOMOYO: Return error if fails to delete a domain
  AppArmor: add const qualifiers to string arrays
  AppArmor: Add ability to load extended policy
  TOMOYO: Return appropriate value to poll().
  AppArmor: Move path failure information into aa_get_name and rename
  AppArmor: Update dfa matching routines.
  AppArmor: Minor cleanup of d_namespace_path to consolidate error handling
  AppArmor: Retrieve the dentry_path for error reporting when path lookup fails
  AppArmor: Add const qualifiers to generated string tables
  AppArmor: Fix oops in policy unpack auditing
  AppArmor: Fix error returned when a path lookup is disconnected
  KEYS: testing wrong bit for KEY_FLAG_REVOKED
  TOMOYO: Fix mount flags checking order.
  security: fix ima kconfig warning
  AppArmor: Fix the error case for chroot relative path name lookup
  AppArmor: fix mapping of META_READ to audit and quiet flags
  AppArmor: Fix underflow in xindex calculation
  AppArmor: Fix dropping of allowed operations that are force audited
  AppArmor: Add mising end of structure test to caps unpacking
  ...
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Pull security subsystem updates for 3.4 from James Morris:
 "The main addition here is the new Yama security module from Kees Cook,
  which was discussed at the Linux Security Summit last year.  Its
  purpose is to collect miscellaneous DAC security enhancements in one
  place.  This also marks a departure in policy for LSM modules, which
  were previously limited to being standalone access control systems.
  Chromium OS is using Yama, and I believe there are plans for Ubuntu,
  at least.

  This patchset also includes maintenance updates for AppArmor, TOMOYO
  and others."

Fix trivial conflict in &lt;net/sock.h&gt; due to the jumo_label-&gt;static_key
rename.

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (38 commits)
  AppArmor: Fix location of const qualifier on generated string tables
  TOMOYO: Return error if fails to delete a domain
  AppArmor: add const qualifiers to string arrays
  AppArmor: Add ability to load extended policy
  TOMOYO: Return appropriate value to poll().
  AppArmor: Move path failure information into aa_get_name and rename
  AppArmor: Update dfa matching routines.
  AppArmor: Minor cleanup of d_namespace_path to consolidate error handling
  AppArmor: Retrieve the dentry_path for error reporting when path lookup fails
  AppArmor: Add const qualifiers to generated string tables
  AppArmor: Fix oops in policy unpack auditing
  AppArmor: Fix error returned when a path lookup is disconnected
  KEYS: testing wrong bit for KEY_FLAG_REVOKED
  TOMOYO: Fix mount flags checking order.
  security: fix ima kconfig warning
  AppArmor: Fix the error case for chroot relative path name lookup
  AppArmor: fix mapping of META_READ to audit and quiet flags
  AppArmor: Fix underflow in xindex calculation
  AppArmor: Fix dropping of allowed operations that are force audited
  AppArmor: Add mising end of structure test to caps unpacking
  ...
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<title>mm: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()</title>
<updated>2012-03-20T13:48:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cong Wang</name>
<email>amwang@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-25T15:14:39+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Cong Wang &lt;amwang@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>mm: collapse security_vm_enough_memory() variants into a single function</title>
<updated>2012-02-13T23:45:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@ftp.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-13T03:58:52+00:00</published>
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Collapse security_vm_enough_memory() variants into a single function.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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Collapse security_vm_enough_memory() variants into a single function.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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<title>mm: unify remaining mem_cont, mem, etc. variable names to memcg</title>
<updated>2012-01-13T04:13:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>jweiner@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-13T01:18:32+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;jweiner@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Balbir Singh &lt;bsingharora@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;jweiner@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Balbir Singh &lt;bsingharora@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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