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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>mm: rmap: fix use-after-free in __put_anon_vma</title>
<updated>2014-06-11T19:03:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Ryabinin</name>
<email>a.ryabinin@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-06T15:09:30+00:00</published>
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commit 624483f3ea82598ab0f62f1bdb9177f531ab1892 upstream.

While working address sanitizer for kernel I've discovered
use-after-free bug in __put_anon_vma.

For the last anon_vma, anon_vma-&gt;root freed before child anon_vma.
Later in anon_vma_free(anon_vma) we are referencing to already freed
anon_vma-&gt;root to check rwsem.

This fixes it by freeing the child anon_vma before freeing
anon_vma-&gt;root.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;a.ryabinin@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&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 624483f3ea82598ab0f62f1bdb9177f531ab1892 upstream.

While working address sanitizer for kernel I've discovered
use-after-free bug in __put_anon_vma.

For the last anon_vma, anon_vma-&gt;root freed before child anon_vma.
Later in anon_vma_free(anon_vma) we are referencing to already freed
anon_vma-&gt;root to check rwsem.

This fixes it by freeing the child anon_vma before freeing
anon_vma-&gt;root.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;a.ryabinin@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&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>
<entry>
<title>mm/memory-failure.c: fix memory leak by race between poison and unpoison</title>
<updated>2014-06-11T19:03:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naoya Horiguchi</name>
<email>n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-22T18:54:21+00:00</published>
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commit 3e030ecc0fc7de10fd0da10c1c19939872a31717 upstream.

When a memory error happens on an in-use page or (free and in-use)
hugepage, the victim page is isolated with its refcount set to one.

When you try to unpoison it later, unpoison_memory() calls put_page()
for it twice in order to bring the page back to free page pool (buddy or
free hugepage list).  However, if another memory error occurs on the
page which we are unpoisoning, memory_failure() returns without
releasing the refcount which was incremented in the same call at first,
which results in memory leak and unconsistent num_poisoned_pages
statistics.  This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&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@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3e030ecc0fc7de10fd0da10c1c19939872a31717 upstream.

When a memory error happens on an in-use page or (free and in-use)
hugepage, the victim page is isolated with its refcount set to one.

When you try to unpoison it later, unpoison_memory() calls put_page()
for it twice in order to bring the page back to free page pool (buddy or
free hugepage list).  However, if another memory error occurs on the
page which we are unpoisoning, memory_failure() returns without
releasing the refcount which was incremented in the same call at first,
which results in memory leak and unconsistent num_poisoned_pages
statistics.  This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&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@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>percpu: make pcpu_alloc_chunk() use pcpu_mem_free() instead of kfree()</title>
<updated>2014-06-07T20:25:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jianyu Zhan</name>
<email>nasa4836@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-14T05:47:40+00:00</published>
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commit 5a838c3b60e3a36ade764cf7751b8f17d7c9c2da upstream.

pcpu_chunk_struct_size = sizeof(struct pcpu_chunk) +
	BITS_TO_LONGS(pcpu_unit_pages) * sizeof(unsigned long)

It hardly could be ever bigger than PAGE_SIZE even for large-scale machine,
but for consistency with its couterpart pcpu_mem_zalloc(),
use pcpu_mem_free() instead.

Commit b4916cb17c26 ("percpu: make pcpu_free_chunk() use
pcpu_mem_free() instead of kfree()") addressed this problem, but
missed this one.

tj: commit message updated

Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan &lt;nasa4836@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 099a19d91ca4 ("percpu: allow limited allocation before slab is online)
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 5a838c3b60e3a36ade764cf7751b8f17d7c9c2da upstream.

pcpu_chunk_struct_size = sizeof(struct pcpu_chunk) +
	BITS_TO_LONGS(pcpu_unit_pages) * sizeof(unsigned long)

It hardly could be ever bigger than PAGE_SIZE even for large-scale machine,
but for consistency with its couterpart pcpu_mem_zalloc(),
use pcpu_mem_free() instead.

Commit b4916cb17c26 ("percpu: make pcpu_free_chunk() use
pcpu_mem_free() instead of kfree()") addressed this problem, but
missed this one.

tj: commit message updated

Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan &lt;nasa4836@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 099a19d91ca4 ("percpu: allow limited allocation before slab is online)
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>hwpoison, hugetlb: lock_page/unlock_page does not match for handling a free hugepage</title>
<updated>2014-06-07T20:25:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chen Yucong</name>
<email>slaoub@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-22T18:54:15+00:00</published>
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commit b985194c8c0a130ed155b71662e39f7eaea4876f upstream.

For handling a free hugepage in memory failure, the race will happen if
another thread hwpoisoned this hugepage concurrently.  So we need to
check PageHWPoison instead of !PageHWPoison.

If hwpoison_filter(p) returns true or a race happens, then we need to
unlock_page(hpage).

Signed-off-by: Chen Yucong &lt;slaoub@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Tested-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.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@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b985194c8c0a130ed155b71662e39f7eaea4876f upstream.

For handling a free hugepage in memory failure, the race will happen if
another thread hwpoisoned this hugepage concurrently.  So we need to
check PageHWPoison instead of !PageHWPoison.

If hwpoison_filter(p) returns true or a race happens, then we need to
unlock_page(hpage).

Signed-off-by: Chen Yucong &lt;slaoub@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Tested-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.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@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, thp: close race between mremap() and split_huge_page()</title>
<updated>2014-06-07T20:25:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-09T22:37:00+00:00</published>
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commit dd18dbc2d42af75fffa60c77e0f02220bc329829 upstream.

It's critical for split_huge_page() (and migration) to catch and freeze
all PMDs on rmap walk.  It gets tricky if there's concurrent fork() or
mremap() since usually we copy/move page table entries on dup_mm() or
move_page_tables() without rmap lock taken.  To get it work we rely on
rmap walk order to not miss any entry.  We expect to see destination VMA
after source one to work correctly.

But after switching rmap implementation to interval tree it's not always
possible to preserve expected walk order.

It works fine for dup_mm() since new VMA has the same vma_start_pgoff()
/ vma_last_pgoff() and explicitly insert dst VMA after src one with
vma_interval_tree_insert_after().

But on move_vma() destination VMA can be merged into adjacent one and as
result shifted left in interval tree.  Fortunately, we can detect the
situation and prevent race with rmap walk by moving page table entries
under rmap lock.  See commit 38a76013ad80.

Problem is that we miss the lock when we move transhuge PMD.  Most
likely this bug caused the crash[1].

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/96473

Fixes: 108d6642ad81 ("mm anon rmap: remove anon_vma_moveto_tail")

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&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@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit dd18dbc2d42af75fffa60c77e0f02220bc329829 upstream.

It's critical for split_huge_page() (and migration) to catch and freeze
all PMDs on rmap walk.  It gets tricky if there's concurrent fork() or
mremap() since usually we copy/move page table entries on dup_mm() or
move_page_tables() without rmap lock taken.  To get it work we rely on
rmap walk order to not miss any entry.  We expect to see destination VMA
after source one to work correctly.

But after switching rmap implementation to interval tree it's not always
possible to preserve expected walk order.

It works fine for dup_mm() since new VMA has the same vma_start_pgoff()
/ vma_last_pgoff() and explicitly insert dst VMA after src one with
vma_interval_tree_insert_after().

But on move_vma() destination VMA can be merged into adjacent one and as
result shifted left in interval tree.  Fortunately, we can detect the
situation and prevent race with rmap walk by moving page table entries
under rmap lock.  See commit 38a76013ad80.

Problem is that we miss the lock when we move transhuge PMD.  Most
likely this bug caused the crash[1].

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/96473

Fixes: 108d6642ad81 ("mm anon rmap: remove anon_vma_moveto_tail")

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&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@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>mm: make fixup_user_fault() check the vma access rights too</title>
<updated>2014-06-07T20:25:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-22T20:49:40+00:00</published>
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commit 1b17844b29ae042576bea588164f2f1e9590a8bc upstream.

fixup_user_fault() is used by the futex code when the direct user access
fails, and the futex code wants it to either map in the page in a usable
form or return an error.  It relied on handle_mm_fault() to map the
page, and correctly checked the error return from that, but while that
does map the page, it doesn't actually guarantee that the page will be
mapped with sufficient permissions to be then accessed.

So do the appropriate tests of the vma access rights by hand.

[ Side note: arguably handle_mm_fault() could just do that itself, but
  we have traditionally done it in the caller, because some callers -
  notably get_user_pages() - have been able to access pages even when
  they are mapped with PROT_NONE.  Maybe we should re-visit that design
  decision, but in the meantime this is the minimal patch. ]

Found by Dave Jones running his trinity tool.

Reported-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&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@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 1b17844b29ae042576bea588164f2f1e9590a8bc upstream.

fixup_user_fault() is used by the futex code when the direct user access
fails, and the futex code wants it to either map in the page in a usable
form or return an error.  It relied on handle_mm_fault() to map the
page, and correctly checked the error return from that, but while that
does map the page, it doesn't actually guarantee that the page will be
mapped with sufficient permissions to be then accessed.

So do the appropriate tests of the vma access rights by hand.

[ Side note: arguably handle_mm_fault() could just do that itself, but
  we have traditionally done it in the caller, because some callers -
  notably get_user_pages() - have been able to access pages even when
  they are mapped with PROT_NONE.  Maybe we should re-visit that design
  decision, but in the meantime this is the minimal patch. ]

Found by Dave Jones running his trinity tool.

Reported-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&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@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/hugetlb.c: add cond_resched_lock() in return_unused_surplus_pages()</title>
<updated>2014-05-31T04:52:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mizuma, Masayoshi</name>
<email>m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-18T22:07:18+00:00</published>
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commit 7848a4bf51b34f41fcc9bd77e837126d99ae84e3 upstream.

soft lockup in freeing gigantic hugepage fixed in commit 55f67141a892 "mm:
hugetlb: fix softlockup when a large number of hugepages are freed." can
happen in return_unused_surplus_pages(), so let's fix it.

Signed-off-by: Masayoshi Mizuma &lt;m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: 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@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 7848a4bf51b34f41fcc9bd77e837126d99ae84e3 upstream.

soft lockup in freeing gigantic hugepage fixed in commit 55f67141a892 "mm:
hugetlb: fix softlockup when a large number of hugepages are freed." can
happen in return_unused_surplus_pages(), so let's fix it.

Signed-off-by: Masayoshi Mizuma &lt;m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: 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@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: hugetlb: fix softlockup when a large number of hugepages are freed.</title>
<updated>2014-05-06T14:55:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mizuma, Masayoshi</name>
<email>m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-07T22:37:54+00:00</published>
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commit 55f67141a8927b2be3e51840da37b8a2320143ed upstream.

When I decrease the value of nr_hugepage in procfs a lot, softlockup
happens.  It is because there is no chance of context switch during this
process.

On the other hand, when I allocate a large number of hugepages, there is
some chance of context switch.  Hence softlockup doesn't happen during
this process.  So it's necessary to add the context switch in the
freeing process as same as allocating process to avoid softlockup.

When I freed 12 TB hugapages with kernel-2.6.32-358.el6, the freeing
process occupied a CPU over 150 seconds and following softlockup message
appeared twice or more.

$ echo 6000000 &gt; /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
$ cat /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
6000000
$ grep ^Huge /proc/meminfo
HugePages_Total:   6000000
HugePages_Free:    6000000
HugePages_Rsvd:        0
HugePages_Surp:        0
Hugepagesize:       2048 kB
$ echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages

BUG: soft lockup - CPU#16 stuck for 67s! [sh:12883] ...
Pid: 12883, comm: sh Not tainted 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 #1
Call Trace:
  free_pool_huge_page+0xb8/0xd0
  set_max_huge_pages+0x128/0x190
  hugetlb_sysctl_handler_common+0x113/0x140
  hugetlb_sysctl_handler+0x1e/0x20
  proc_sys_call_handler+0x97/0xd0
  proc_sys_write+0x14/0x20
  vfs_write+0xb8/0x1a0
  sys_write+0x51/0x90
  __audit_syscall_exit+0x265/0x290
  system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

I have not confirmed this problem with upstream kernels because I am not
able to prepare the machine equipped with 12TB memory now.  However I
confirmed that the amount of decreasing hugepages was directly
proportional to the amount of required time.

I measured required times on a smaller machine.  It showed 130-145
hugepages decreased in a millisecond.

  Amount of decreasing     Required time      Decreasing rate
  hugepages                     (msec)         (pages/msec)
  ------------------------------------------------------------
  10,000 pages == 20GB         70 -  74          135-142
  30,000 pages == 60GB        208 - 229          131-144

It means decrement of 6TB hugepages will trigger softlockup with the
default threshold 20sec, in this decreasing rate.

Signed-off-by: Masayoshi Mizuma &lt;m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Wanpeng Li &lt;liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.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@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 55f67141a8927b2be3e51840da37b8a2320143ed upstream.

When I decrease the value of nr_hugepage in procfs a lot, softlockup
happens.  It is because there is no chance of context switch during this
process.

On the other hand, when I allocate a large number of hugepages, there is
some chance of context switch.  Hence softlockup doesn't happen during
this process.  So it's necessary to add the context switch in the
freeing process as same as allocating process to avoid softlockup.

When I freed 12 TB hugapages with kernel-2.6.32-358.el6, the freeing
process occupied a CPU over 150 seconds and following softlockup message
appeared twice or more.

$ echo 6000000 &gt; /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
$ cat /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
6000000
$ grep ^Huge /proc/meminfo
HugePages_Total:   6000000
HugePages_Free:    6000000
HugePages_Rsvd:        0
HugePages_Surp:        0
Hugepagesize:       2048 kB
$ echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages

BUG: soft lockup - CPU#16 stuck for 67s! [sh:12883] ...
Pid: 12883, comm: sh Not tainted 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 #1
Call Trace:
  free_pool_huge_page+0xb8/0xd0
  set_max_huge_pages+0x128/0x190
  hugetlb_sysctl_handler_common+0x113/0x140
  hugetlb_sysctl_handler+0x1e/0x20
  proc_sys_call_handler+0x97/0xd0
  proc_sys_write+0x14/0x20
  vfs_write+0xb8/0x1a0
  sys_write+0x51/0x90
  __audit_syscall_exit+0x265/0x290
  system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

I have not confirmed this problem with upstream kernels because I am not
able to prepare the machine equipped with 12TB memory now.  However I
confirmed that the amount of decreasing hugepages was directly
proportional to the amount of required time.

I measured required times on a smaller machine.  It showed 130-145
hugepages decreased in a millisecond.

  Amount of decreasing     Required time      Decreasing rate
  hugepages                     (msec)         (pages/msec)
  ------------------------------------------------------------
  10,000 pages == 20GB         70 -  74          135-142
  30,000 pages == 60GB        208 - 229          131-144

It means decrement of 6TB hugepages will trigger softlockup with the
default threshold 20sec, in this decreasing rate.

Signed-off-by: Masayoshi Mizuma &lt;m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Wanpeng Li &lt;liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.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@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>mm: try_to_unmap_cluster() should lock_page() before mlocking</title>
<updated>2014-05-06T14:55:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vlastimil Babka</name>
<email>vbabka@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-07T22:37:50+00:00</published>
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commit 57e68e9cd65b4b8eb4045a1e0d0746458502554c upstream.

A BUG_ON(!PageLocked) was triggered in mlock_vma_page() by Sasha Levin
fuzzing with trinity.  The call site try_to_unmap_cluster() does not lock
the pages other than its check_page parameter (which is already locked).

The BUG_ON in mlock_vma_page() is not documented and its purpose is
somewhat unclear, but apparently it serializes against page migration,
which could otherwise fail to transfer the PG_mlocked flag.  This would
not be fatal, as the page would be eventually encountered again, but
NR_MLOCK accounting would become distorted nevertheless.  This patch adds
a comment to the BUG_ON in mlock_vma_page() and munlock_vma_page() to that
effect.

The call site try_to_unmap_cluster() is fixed so that for page !=
check_page, trylock_page() is attempted (to avoid possible deadlocks as we
already have check_page locked) and mlock_vma_page() is performed only
upon success.  If the page lock cannot be obtained, the page is left
without PG_mlocked, which is again not a problem in the whole unevictable
memory design.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu &lt;bob.liu@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Wanpeng Li &lt;liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.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@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 57e68e9cd65b4b8eb4045a1e0d0746458502554c upstream.

A BUG_ON(!PageLocked) was triggered in mlock_vma_page() by Sasha Levin
fuzzing with trinity.  The call site try_to_unmap_cluster() does not lock
the pages other than its check_page parameter (which is already locked).

The BUG_ON in mlock_vma_page() is not documented and its purpose is
somewhat unclear, but apparently it serializes against page migration,
which could otherwise fail to transfer the PG_mlocked flag.  This would
not be fatal, as the page would be eventually encountered again, but
NR_MLOCK accounting would become distorted nevertheless.  This patch adds
a comment to the BUG_ON in mlock_vma_page() and munlock_vma_page() to that
effect.

The call site try_to_unmap_cluster() is fixed so that for page !=
check_page, trylock_page() is attempted (to avoid possible deadlocks as we
already have check_page locked) and mlock_vma_page() is performed only
upon success.  If the page lock cannot be obtained, the page is left
without PG_mlocked, which is again not a problem in the whole unevictable
memory design.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu &lt;bob.liu@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Wanpeng Li &lt;liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.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@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bdi: avoid oops on device removal</title>
<updated>2014-04-27T00:15:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-03T21:46:23+00:00</published>
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commit 5acda9d12dcf1ad0d9a5a2a7c646de3472fa7555 upstream.

After commit 839a8e8660b6 ("writeback: replace custom worker pool
implementation with unbound workqueue") when device is removed while we
are writing to it we crash in bdi_writeback_workfn() -&gt;
set_worker_desc() because bdi-&gt;dev is NULL.

This can happen because even though bdi_unregister() cancels all pending
flushing work, nothing really prevents new ones from being queued from
balance_dirty_pages() or other places.

Fix the problem by clearing BDI_registered bit in bdi_unregister() and
checking it before scheduling of any flushing work.

Fixes: 839a8e8660b6777e7fe4e80af1a048aebe2b5977

Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Derek Basehore &lt;dbasehore@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&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@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 5acda9d12dcf1ad0d9a5a2a7c646de3472fa7555 upstream.

After commit 839a8e8660b6 ("writeback: replace custom worker pool
implementation with unbound workqueue") when device is removed while we
are writing to it we crash in bdi_writeback_workfn() -&gt;
set_worker_desc() because bdi-&gt;dev is NULL.

This can happen because even though bdi_unregister() cancels all pending
flushing work, nothing really prevents new ones from being queued from
balance_dirty_pages() or other places.

Fix the problem by clearing BDI_registered bit in bdi_unregister() and
checking it before scheduling of any flushing work.

Fixes: 839a8e8660b6777e7fe4e80af1a048aebe2b5977

Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Derek Basehore &lt;dbasehore@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&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@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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