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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>mm: avoid wrapping vm_pgoff in mremap()</title>
<updated>2011-04-14T23:53:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-07T14:35:50+00:00</published>
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commit 982134ba62618c2d69fbbbd166d0a11ee3b7e3d8 upstream.

The normal mmap paths all avoid creating a mapping where the pgoff
inside the mapping could wrap around due to overflow.  However, an
expanding mremap() can take such a non-wrapping mapping and make it
bigger and cause a wrapping condition.

Noticed by Robert Swiecki when running a system call fuzzer, where it
caused a BUG_ON() due to terminally confusing the vma_prio_tree code.  A
vma dumping patch by Hugh then pinpointed the crazy wrapped case.

Reported-and-tested-by: Robert Swiecki &lt;robert@swiecki.net&gt;
Acked-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@suse.de&gt;

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commit 982134ba62618c2d69fbbbd166d0a11ee3b7e3d8 upstream.

The normal mmap paths all avoid creating a mapping where the pgoff
inside the mapping could wrap around due to overflow.  However, an
expanding mremap() can take such a non-wrapping mapping and make it
bigger and cause a wrapping condition.

Noticed by Robert Swiecki when running a system call fuzzer, where it
caused a BUG_ON() due to terminally confusing the vma_prio_tree code.  A
vma dumping patch by Hugh then pinpointed the crazy wrapped case.

Reported-and-tested-by: Robert Swiecki &lt;robert@swiecki.net&gt;
Acked-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@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>shmem: let shared anonymous be nonlinear again</title>
<updated>2011-03-27T18:30:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-22T23:33:43+00:00</published>
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commit bee4c36a5cf5c9f63ce1d7372aa62045fbd16d47 upstream.

Up to 2.6.22, you could use remap_file_pages(2) on a tmpfs file or a
shared mapping of /dev/zero or a shared anonymous mapping.  In 2.6.23 we
disabled it by default, but set VM_CAN_NONLINEAR to enable it on safe
mappings.  We made sure to set it in shmem_mmap() for tmpfs files, but
missed it in shmem_zero_setup() for the others.  Fix that at last.

Reported-by: Kenny Simpson &lt;theonetruekenny@yahoo.com&gt;
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;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit bee4c36a5cf5c9f63ce1d7372aa62045fbd16d47 upstream.

Up to 2.6.22, you could use remap_file_pages(2) on a tmpfs file or a
shared mapping of /dev/zero or a shared anonymous mapping.  In 2.6.23 we
disabled it by default, but set VM_CAN_NONLINEAR to enable it on safe
mappings.  We made sure to set it in shmem_mmap() for tmpfs files, but
missed it in shmem_zero_setup() for the others.  Fix that at last.

Reported-by: Kenny Simpson &lt;theonetruekenny@yahoo.com&gt;
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;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: fix possible cause of a page_mapped BUG</title>
<updated>2011-03-14T21:29:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-02-24T05:39:49+00:00</published>
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commit a3e8cc643d22d2c8ed36b9be7d9c9ca21efcf7f7 upstream.

Robert Swiecki reported a BUG_ON(page_mapped) from a fuzzer, punching
a hole with madvise(,, MADV_REMOVE).  That path is under mutex, and
cannot be explained by lack of serialization in unmap_mapping_range().

Reviewing the code, I found one place where vm_truncate_count handling
should have been updated, when I switched at the last minute from one
way of managing the restart_addr to another: mremap move changes the
virtual addresses, so it ought to adjust the restart_addr.

But rather than exporting the notion of restart_addr from memory.c, or
converting to restart_pgoff throughout, simply reset vm_truncate_count
to 0 to force a rescan if mremap move races with preempted truncation.

We have no confirmation that this fixes Robert's BUG,
but it is a fix that's worth making anyway.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Kerin Millar &lt;kerframil@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit a3e8cc643d22d2c8ed36b9be7d9c9ca21efcf7f7 upstream.

Robert Swiecki reported a BUG_ON(page_mapped) from a fuzzer, punching
a hole with madvise(,, MADV_REMOVE).  That path is under mutex, and
cannot be explained by lack of serialization in unmap_mapping_range().

Reviewing the code, I found one place where vm_truncate_count handling
should have been updated, when I switched at the last minute from one
way of managing the restart_addr to another: mremap move changes the
virtual addresses, so it ought to adjust the restart_addr.

But rather than exporting the notion of restart_addr from memory.c, or
converting to restart_pgoff throughout, simply reset vm_truncate_count
to 0 to force a rescan if mremap move races with preempted truncation.

We have no confirmation that this fixes Robert's BUG,
but it is a fix that's worth making anyway.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Kerin Millar &lt;kerframil@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>install_special_mapping skips security_file_mmap check.</title>
<updated>2011-01-07T22:43:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tavis Ormandy</name>
<email>taviso@cmpxchg8b.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-09T14:29:42+00:00</published>
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commit 462e635e5b73ba9a4c03913b77138cd57ce4b050 upstream.

The install_special_mapping routine (used, for example, to setup the
vdso) skips the security check before insert_vm_struct, allowing a local
attacker to bypass the mmap_min_addr security restriction by limiting
the available pages for special mappings.

bprm_mm_init() also skips the check, and although I don't think this can
be used to bypass any restrictions, I don't see any reason not to have
the security check.

  $ uname -m
  x86_64
  $ cat /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr
  65536
  $ cat install_special_mapping.s
  section .bss
      resb BSS_SIZE
  section .text
      global _start
      _start:
          mov     eax, __NR_pause
          int     0x80
  $ nasm -D__NR_pause=29 -DBSS_SIZE=0xfffed000 -f elf -o install_special_mapping.o install_special_mapping.s
  $ ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext=0x10000 -Tbss=0x11000 -o install_special_mapping install_special_mapping.o
  $ ./install_special_mapping &amp;
  [1] 14303
  $ cat /proc/14303/maps
  0000f000-00010000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                                  [vdso]
  00010000-00011000 r-xp 00001000 00:19 2453665                            /home/taviso/install_special_mapping
  00011000-ffffe000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0                                  [stack]

It's worth noting that Red Hat are shipping with mmap_min_addr set to
4096.

Signed-off-by: Tavis Ormandy &lt;taviso@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@ubuntu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Robert Swiecki &lt;swiecki@google.com&gt;
[ Changed to not drop the error code - akpm ]
Reviewed-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 462e635e5b73ba9a4c03913b77138cd57ce4b050 upstream.

The install_special_mapping routine (used, for example, to setup the
vdso) skips the security check before insert_vm_struct, allowing a local
attacker to bypass the mmap_min_addr security restriction by limiting
the available pages for special mappings.

bprm_mm_init() also skips the check, and although I don't think this can
be used to bypass any restrictions, I don't see any reason not to have
the security check.

  $ uname -m
  x86_64
  $ cat /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr
  65536
  $ cat install_special_mapping.s
  section .bss
      resb BSS_SIZE
  section .text
      global _start
      _start:
          mov     eax, __NR_pause
          int     0x80
  $ nasm -D__NR_pause=29 -DBSS_SIZE=0xfffed000 -f elf -o install_special_mapping.o install_special_mapping.s
  $ ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext=0x10000 -Tbss=0x11000 -o install_special_mapping install_special_mapping.o
  $ ./install_special_mapping &amp;
  [1] 14303
  $ cat /proc/14303/maps
  0000f000-00010000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                                  [vdso]
  00010000-00011000 r-xp 00001000 00:19 2453665                            /home/taviso/install_special_mapping
  00011000-ffffe000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0                                  [stack]

It's worth noting that Red Hat are shipping with mmap_min_addr set to
4096.

Signed-off-by: Tavis Ormandy &lt;taviso@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@ubuntu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Robert Swiecki &lt;swiecki@google.com&gt;
[ Changed to not drop the error code - akpm ]
Reviewed-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf_events: Fix perf_counter_mmap() hook in mprotect()</title>
<updated>2010-12-09T21:27:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pekka Enberg</name>
<email>penberg@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-08T19:29:07+00:00</published>
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commit 63bfd7384b119409685a17d5c58f0b56e5dc03da upstream.

As pointed out by Linus, commit dab5855 ("perf_counter: Add mmap event hooks to
mprotect()") is fundamentally wrong as mprotect_fixup() can free 'vma' due to
merging. Fix the problem by moving perf_event_mmap() hook to
mprotect_fixup().

Note: there's another successful return path from mprotect_fixup() if old
flags equal to new flags. We don't, however, need to call
perf_event_mmap() there because 'perf' already knows the VMA is
executable.

Reported-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Analyzed-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 63bfd7384b119409685a17d5c58f0b56e5dc03da upstream.

As pointed out by Linus, commit dab5855 ("perf_counter: Add mmap event hooks to
mprotect()") is fundamentally wrong as mprotect_fixup() can free 'vma' due to
merging. Fix the problem by moving perf_event_mmap() hook to
mprotect_fixup().

Note: there's another successful return path from mprotect_fixup() if old
flags equal to new flags. We don't, however, need to call
perf_event_mmap() there because 'perf' already knows the VMA is
executable.

Reported-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Analyzed-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>nommu: yield CPU while disposing VM</title>
<updated>2010-12-09T21:27:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven J. Magnani</name>
<email>steve@digidescorp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-24T20:56:54+00:00</published>
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commit 04c3496152394d17e3bc2316f9731ee3e8a026bc upstream.

Depending on processor speed, page size, and the amount of memory a
process is allowed to amass, cleanup of a large VM may freeze the system
for many seconds.  This can result in a watchdog timeout.

Make sure other tasks receive some service when cleaning up large VMs.

Signed-off-by: Steven J. Magnani &lt;steve@digidescorp.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@snapgear.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 04c3496152394d17e3bc2316f9731ee3e8a026bc upstream.

Depending on processor speed, page size, and the amount of memory a
process is allowed to amass, cleanup of a large VM may freeze the system
for many seconds.  This can result in a watchdog timeout.

Make sure other tasks receive some service when cleaning up large VMs.

Signed-off-by: Steven J. Magnani &lt;steve@digidescorp.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@snapgear.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/vfs: revalidate page-&gt;mapping in do_generic_file_read()</title>
<updated>2010-12-09T21:26:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Hansen</name>
<email>dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-11T22:05:15+00:00</published>
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commit 8d056cb965b8fb7c53c564abf28b1962d1061cd3 upstream.

70 hours into some stress tests of a 2.6.32-based enterprise kernel, we
ran into a NULL dereference in here:

	int block_is_partially_uptodate(struct page *page, read_descriptor_t *desc,
	                                        unsigned long from)
	{
----&gt;		struct inode *inode = page-&gt;mapping-&gt;host;

It looks like page-&gt;mapping was the culprit.  (xmon trace is below).
After closer examination, I realized that do_generic_file_read() does a
find_get_page(), and eventually locks the page before calling
block_is_partially_uptodate().  However, it doesn't revalidate the
page-&gt;mapping after the page is locked.  So, there's a small window
between the find_get_page() and -&gt;is_partially_uptodate() where the page
could get truncated and page-&gt;mapping cleared.

We _have_ a reference, so it can't get reclaimed, but it certainly
can be truncated.

I think the correct thing is to check page-&gt;mapping after the
trylock_page(), and jump out if it got truncated.  This patch has been
running in the test environment for a month or so now, and we have not
seen this bug pop up again.

xmon info:

  1f:mon&gt; e
  cpu 0x1f: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c0000002ae36f770]
      pc: c0000000001e7a6c: .block_is_partially_uptodate+0xc/0x100
      lr: c000000000142944: .generic_file_aio_read+0x1e4/0x770
      sp: c0000002ae36f9f0
     msr: 8000000000009032
     dar: 0
   dsisr: 40000000
    current = 0xc000000378f99e30
    paca    = 0xc000000000f66300
      pid   = 21946, comm = bash
  1f:mon&gt; r
  R00 = 0025c0500000006d   R16 = 0000000000000000
  R01 = c0000002ae36f9f0   R17 = c000000362cd3af0
  R02 = c000000000e8cd80   R18 = ffffffffffffffff
  R03 = c0000000031d0f88   R19 = 0000000000000001
  R04 = c0000002ae36fa68   R20 = c0000003bb97b8a0
  R05 = 0000000000000000   R21 = c0000002ae36fa68
  R06 = 0000000000000000   R22 = 0000000000000000
  R07 = 0000000000000001   R23 = c0000002ae36fbb0
  R08 = 0000000000000002   R24 = 0000000000000000
  R09 = 0000000000000000   R25 = c000000362cd3a80
  R10 = 0000000000000000   R26 = 0000000000000002
  R11 = c0000000001e7b60   R27 = 0000000000000000
  R12 = 0000000042000484   R28 = 0000000000000001
  R13 = c000000000f66300   R29 = c0000003bb97b9b8
  R14 = 0000000000000001   R30 = c000000000e28a08
  R15 = 000000000000ffff   R31 = c0000000031d0f88
  pc  = c0000000001e7a6c .block_is_partially_uptodate+0xc/0x100
  lr  = c000000000142944 .generic_file_aio_read+0x1e4/0x770
  msr = 8000000000009032   cr  = 22000488
  ctr = c0000000001e7a60   xer = 0000000020000000   trap =  300
  dar = 0000000000000000   dsisr = 40000000
  1f:mon&gt; t
  [link register   ] c000000000142944 .generic_file_aio_read+0x1e4/0x770
  [c0000002ae36f9f0] c000000000142a14 .generic_file_aio_read+0x2b4/0x770 (unreliable)
  [c0000002ae36fb40] c0000000001b03e4 .do_sync_read+0xd4/0x160
  [c0000002ae36fce0] c0000000001b153c .vfs_read+0xec/0x1f0
  [c0000002ae36fd80] c0000000001b1768 .SyS_read+0x58/0xb0
  [c0000002ae36fe30] c00000000000852c syscall_exit+0x0/0x40
  --- Exception: c00 (System Call) at 00000080a840bc54
  SP (fffca15df30) is in userspace
  1f:mon&gt; di c0000000001e7a6c
  c0000000001e7a6c  e9290000      ld      r9,0(r9)
  c0000000001e7a70  418200c0      beq     c0000000001e7b30        # .block_is_partially_uptodate+0xd0/0x100
  c0000000001e7a74  e9440008      ld      r10,8(r4)
  c0000000001e7a78  78a80020      clrldi  r8,r5,32
  c0000000001e7a7c  3c000001      lis     r0,1
  c0000000001e7a80  812900a8      lwz     r9,168(r9)
  c0000000001e7a84  39600001      li      r11,1
  c0000000001e7a88  7c080050      subf    r0,r8,r0
  c0000000001e7a8c  7f805040      cmplw   cr7,r0,r10
  c0000000001e7a90  7d6b4830      slw     r11,r11,r9
  c0000000001e7a94  796b0020      clrldi  r11,r11,32
  c0000000001e7a98  419d00a8      bgt     cr7,c0000000001e7b40    # .block_is_partially_uptodate+0xe0/0x100
  c0000000001e7a9c  7fa55840      cmpld   cr7,r5,r11
  c0000000001e7aa0  7d004214      add     r8,r0,r8
  c0000000001e7aa4  79080020      clrldi  r8,r8,32
  c0000000001e7aa8  419c0078      blt     cr7,c0000000001e7b20    # .block_is_partially_uptodate+0xc0/0x100

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan.kim@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;arunabal@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;sbest@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan.kim@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 8d056cb965b8fb7c53c564abf28b1962d1061cd3 upstream.

70 hours into some stress tests of a 2.6.32-based enterprise kernel, we
ran into a NULL dereference in here:

	int block_is_partially_uptodate(struct page *page, read_descriptor_t *desc,
	                                        unsigned long from)
	{
----&gt;		struct inode *inode = page-&gt;mapping-&gt;host;

It looks like page-&gt;mapping was the culprit.  (xmon trace is below).
After closer examination, I realized that do_generic_file_read() does a
find_get_page(), and eventually locks the page before calling
block_is_partially_uptodate().  However, it doesn't revalidate the
page-&gt;mapping after the page is locked.  So, there's a small window
between the find_get_page() and -&gt;is_partially_uptodate() where the page
could get truncated and page-&gt;mapping cleared.

We _have_ a reference, so it can't get reclaimed, but it certainly
can be truncated.

I think the correct thing is to check page-&gt;mapping after the
trylock_page(), and jump out if it got truncated.  This patch has been
running in the test environment for a month or so now, and we have not
seen this bug pop up again.

xmon info:

  1f:mon&gt; e
  cpu 0x1f: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c0000002ae36f770]
      pc: c0000000001e7a6c: .block_is_partially_uptodate+0xc/0x100
      lr: c000000000142944: .generic_file_aio_read+0x1e4/0x770
      sp: c0000002ae36f9f0
     msr: 8000000000009032
     dar: 0
   dsisr: 40000000
    current = 0xc000000378f99e30
    paca    = 0xc000000000f66300
      pid   = 21946, comm = bash
  1f:mon&gt; r
  R00 = 0025c0500000006d   R16 = 0000000000000000
  R01 = c0000002ae36f9f0   R17 = c000000362cd3af0
  R02 = c000000000e8cd80   R18 = ffffffffffffffff
  R03 = c0000000031d0f88   R19 = 0000000000000001
  R04 = c0000002ae36fa68   R20 = c0000003bb97b8a0
  R05 = 0000000000000000   R21 = c0000002ae36fa68
  R06 = 0000000000000000   R22 = 0000000000000000
  R07 = 0000000000000001   R23 = c0000002ae36fbb0
  R08 = 0000000000000002   R24 = 0000000000000000
  R09 = 0000000000000000   R25 = c000000362cd3a80
  R10 = 0000000000000000   R26 = 0000000000000002
  R11 = c0000000001e7b60   R27 = 0000000000000000
  R12 = 0000000042000484   R28 = 0000000000000001
  R13 = c000000000f66300   R29 = c0000003bb97b9b8
  R14 = 0000000000000001   R30 = c000000000e28a08
  R15 = 000000000000ffff   R31 = c0000000031d0f88
  pc  = c0000000001e7a6c .block_is_partially_uptodate+0xc/0x100
  lr  = c000000000142944 .generic_file_aio_read+0x1e4/0x770
  msr = 8000000000009032   cr  = 22000488
  ctr = c0000000001e7a60   xer = 0000000020000000   trap =  300
  dar = 0000000000000000   dsisr = 40000000
  1f:mon&gt; t
  [link register   ] c000000000142944 .generic_file_aio_read+0x1e4/0x770
  [c0000002ae36f9f0] c000000000142a14 .generic_file_aio_read+0x2b4/0x770 (unreliable)
  [c0000002ae36fb40] c0000000001b03e4 .do_sync_read+0xd4/0x160
  [c0000002ae36fce0] c0000000001b153c .vfs_read+0xec/0x1f0
  [c0000002ae36fd80] c0000000001b1768 .SyS_read+0x58/0xb0
  [c0000002ae36fe30] c00000000000852c syscall_exit+0x0/0x40
  --- Exception: c00 (System Call) at 00000080a840bc54
  SP (fffca15df30) is in userspace
  1f:mon&gt; di c0000000001e7a6c
  c0000000001e7a6c  e9290000      ld      r9,0(r9)
  c0000000001e7a70  418200c0      beq     c0000000001e7b30        # .block_is_partially_uptodate+0xd0/0x100
  c0000000001e7a74  e9440008      ld      r10,8(r4)
  c0000000001e7a78  78a80020      clrldi  r8,r5,32
  c0000000001e7a7c  3c000001      lis     r0,1
  c0000000001e7a80  812900a8      lwz     r9,168(r9)
  c0000000001e7a84  39600001      li      r11,1
  c0000000001e7a88  7c080050      subf    r0,r8,r0
  c0000000001e7a8c  7f805040      cmplw   cr7,r0,r10
  c0000000001e7a90  7d6b4830      slw     r11,r11,r9
  c0000000001e7a94  796b0020      clrldi  r11,r11,32
  c0000000001e7a98  419d00a8      bgt     cr7,c0000000001e7b40    # .block_is_partially_uptodate+0xe0/0x100
  c0000000001e7a9c  7fa55840      cmpld   cr7,r5,r11
  c0000000001e7aa0  7d004214      add     r8,r0,r8
  c0000000001e7aa4  79080020      clrldi  r8,r8,32
  c0000000001e7aa8  419c0078      blt     cr7,c0000000001e7b20    # .block_is_partially_uptodate+0xc0/0x100

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan.kim@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;arunabal@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;sbest@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan.kim@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<title>mm: fix is_mem_section_removable() page_order BUG_ON check</title>
<updated>2010-12-09T21:26:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki</name>
<email>kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-26T21:22:08+00:00</published>
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commit 572438f9b52236bd8938b1647cc15e027d27ef55 upstream.

page_order() is called by memory hotplug's user interface to check the
section is removable or not.  (is_mem_section_removable())

It calls page_order() withoug holding zone-&gt;lock.
So, even if the caller does

	if (PageBuddy(page))
		ret = page_order(page) ...
The caller may hit BUG_ON().

For fixing this, there are 2 choices.
  1. add zone-&gt;lock.
  2. remove BUG_ON().

is_mem_section_removable() is used for some "advice" and doesn't need to
be 100% accurate.  This is_removable() can be called via user program..
We don't want to take this important lock for long by user's request.  So,
this patch removes BUG_ON().

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 572438f9b52236bd8938b1647cc15e027d27ef55 upstream.

page_order() is called by memory hotplug's user interface to check the
section is removable or not.  (is_mem_section_removable())

It calls page_order() withoug holding zone-&gt;lock.
So, even if the caller does

	if (PageBuddy(page))
		ret = page_order(page) ...
The caller may hit BUG_ON().

For fixing this, there are 2 choices.
  1. add zone-&gt;lock.
  2. remove BUG_ON().

is_mem_section_removable() is used for some "advice" and doesn't need to
be 100% accurate.  This is_removable() can be called via user program..
We don't want to take this important lock for long by user's request.  So,
this patch removes BUG_ON().

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: fix return value of scan_lru_pages in memory unplug</title>
<updated>2010-12-09T21:26:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki</name>
<email>kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-26T21:21:10+00:00</published>
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commit f8f72ad5396987e05a42cf7eff826fb2a15ff148 upstream.

scan_lru_pages returns pfn. So, it's type should be "unsigned long"
not "int".

Note: I guess this has been work until now because memory hotplug tester's
      machine has not very big memory....
      physical address &lt; 32bit &lt;&lt; PAGE_SHIFT.

Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit f8f72ad5396987e05a42cf7eff826fb2a15ff148 upstream.

scan_lru_pages returns pfn. So, it's type should be "unsigned long"
not "int".

Note: I guess this has been work until now because memory hotplug tester's
      machine has not very big memory....
      physical address &lt; 32bit &lt;&lt; PAGE_SHIFT.

Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>numa: fix slab_node(MPOL_BIND)</title>
<updated>2010-12-09T21:26:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>eric.dumazet@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-27T17:33:43+00:00</published>
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commit 800416f799e0723635ac2d720ad4449917a1481c upstream.

When a node contains only HighMem memory, slab_node(MPOL_BIND)
dereferences a NULL pointer.

[ This code seems to go back all the way to commit 19770b32609b: "mm:
  filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask".  Which was back in
  April 2008, and it got merged into 2.6.26.  - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;lee.schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 800416f799e0723635ac2d720ad4449917a1481c upstream.

When a node contains only HighMem memory, slab_node(MPOL_BIND)
dereferences a NULL pointer.

[ This code seems to go back all the way to commit 19770b32609b: "mm:
  filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask".  Which was back in
  April 2008, and it got merged into 2.6.26.  - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;lee.schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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