linux-toradex.git/mm, branch v3.2.34

mm: bugfix: set current->reclaim_state to NULL while returning from kswapd()

2012-11-16T16:47:13+00:00

commit b0a8cc58e6b9aaae3045752059e5e6260c0b94bc upstream.

In kswapd(), set current->reclaim_state to NULL before returning, as
current->reclaim_state holds reference to variable on kswapd()'s stack.

In rare cases, while returning from kswapd() during memory offlining,
__free_slab() and freepages() can access the dangling pointer of
current->reclaim_state.

Signed-off-by: Takamori Yamaguchi 
Signed-off-by: Aaditya Kumar 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

mm: fix XFS oops due to dirty pages without buffers on s390

2012-10-30T23:27:06+00:00

commit ef5d437f71afdf4afdbab99213add99f4b1318fd upstream.

On s390 any write to a page (even from kernel itself) sets architecture
specific page dirty bit.  Thus when a page is written to via buffered
write, HW dirty bit gets set and when we later map and unmap the page,
page_remove_rmap() finds the dirty bit and calls set_page_dirty().

Dirtying of a page which shouldn't be dirty can cause all sorts of
problems to filesystems.  The bug we observed in practice is that
buffers from the page get freed, so when the page gets later marked as
dirty and writeback writes it, XFS crashes due to an assertion
BUG_ON(!PagePrivate(page)) in page_buffers() called from
xfs_count_page_state().

Similar problem can also happen when zero_user_segment() call from
xfs_vm_writepage() (or block_write_full_page() for that matter) set the
hardware dirty bit during writeback, later buffers get freed, and then
page unmapped.

Fix the issue by ignoring s390 HW dirty bit for page cache pages of
mappings with mapping_cap_account_dirty().  This is safe because for
such mappings when a page gets marked as writeable in PTE it is also
marked dirty in do_wp_page() or do_page_fault().  When the dirty bit is
cleared by clear_page_dirty_for_io(), the page gets writeprotected in
page_mkclean().  So pagecache page is writeable if and only if it is
dirty.

Thanks to Hugh Dickins for pointing out mapping has to have
mapping_cap_account_dirty() for things to work and proposing a cleaned
up variant of the patch.

The patch has survived about two hours of running fsx-linux on tmpfs
while heavily swapping and several days of running on out build machines
where the original problem was triggered.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context; in particular there is no local
 'anon' in page_remove_rmap()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

tmpfs,ceph,gfs2,isofs,reiserfs,xfs: fix fh_len checking

2012-10-30T23:26:40+00:00

commit 35c2a7f4908d404c9124c2efc6ada4640ca4d5d5 upstream.

Fuzzing with trinity oopsed on the 1st instruction of shmem_fh_to_dentry(),
	u64 inum = fid->raw[2];
which is unhelpfully reported as at the end of shmem_alloc_inode():

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff880061cd3000
IP: [] shmem_alloc_inode+0x40/0x40
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Call Trace:
 [] ? exportfs_decode_fh+0x79/0x2d0
 [] do_handle_open+0x163/0x2c0
 [] sys_open_by_handle_at+0xc/0x10
 [] tracesys+0xe1/0xe6

Right, tmpfs is being stupid to access fid->raw[2] before validating that
fh_len includes it: the buffer kmalloc'ed by do_sys_name_to_handle() may
fall at the end of a page, and the next page not be present.

But some other filesystems (ceph, gfs2, isofs, reiserfs, xfs) are being
careless about fh_len too, in fh_to_dentry() and/or fh_to_parent(), and
could oops in the same way: add the missing fh_len checks to those.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Sage Weil 
Cc: Steven Whitehouse 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

mempolicy: fix a memory corruption by refcount imbalance in alloc_pages_vma()

2012-10-17T02:49:59+00:00

commit 00442ad04a5eac08a98255697c510e708f6082e2 upstream.

Commit cc9a6c877661 ("cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier
related damage v3") introduced a potential memory corruption.
shmem_alloc_page() uses a pseudo vma and it has one significant unique
combination, vma->vm_ops=NULL and vma->policy->flags & MPOL_F_SHARED.

get_vma_policy() does NOT increase a policy ref when vma->vm_ops=NULL
and mpol_cond_put() DOES decrease a policy ref when a policy has
MPOL_F_SHARED.  Therefore, when a cpuset update race occurs,
alloc_pages_vma() falls in 'goto retry_cpuset' path, decrements the
reference count and frees the policy prematurely.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Josh Boyer 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

mempolicy: fix refcount leak in mpol_set_shared_policy()

2012-10-17T02:49:59+00:00

commit 63f74ca21f1fad36d075e063f06dcc6d39fe86b2 upstream.

When shared_policy_replace() fails to allocate new->policy is not freed
correctly by mpol_set_shared_policy().  The problem is that shared
mempolicy code directly call kmem_cache_free() in multiple places where
it is easy to make a mistake.

This patch creates an sp_free wrapper function and uses it. The bug was
introduced pre-git age (IOW, before 2.6.12-rc2).

[mgorman@suse.de: Editted changelog]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Josh Boyer 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

mempolicy: fix a race in shared_policy_replace()

2012-10-17T02:49:58+00:00

commit b22d127a39ddd10d93deee3d96e643657ad53a49 upstream.

shared_policy_replace() use of sp_alloc() is unsafe.  1) sp_node cannot
be dereferenced if sp->lock is not held and 2) another thread can modify
sp_node between spin_unlock for allocating a new sp node and next
spin_lock.  The bug was introduced before 2.6.12-rc2.

Kosaki's original patch for this problem was to allocate an sp node and
policy within shared_policy_replace and initialise it when the lock is
reacquired.  I was not keen on this approach because it partially
duplicates sp_alloc().  As the paths were sp->lock is taken are not that
performance critical this patch converts sp->lock to sp->mutex so it can
sleep when calling sp_alloc().

[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: Original patch]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Josh Boyer 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

mempolicy: remove mempolicy sharing

2012-10-17T02:49:57+00:00

commit 869833f2c5c6e4dd09a5378cfc665ffb4615e5d2 upstream.

Dave Jones' system call fuzz testing tool "trinity" triggered the
following bug error with slab debugging enabled

    =============================================================================
    BUG numa_policy (Not tainted): Poison overwritten
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    INFO: 0xffff880146498250-0xffff880146498250. First byte 0x6a instead of 0x6b
    INFO: Allocated in mpol_new+0xa3/0x140 age=46310 cpu=6 pid=32154
     __slab_alloc+0x3d3/0x445
     kmem_cache_alloc+0x29d/0x2b0
     mpol_new+0xa3/0x140
     sys_mbind+0x142/0x620
     system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

    INFO: Freed in __mpol_put+0x27/0x30 age=46268 cpu=6 pid=32154
     __slab_free+0x2e/0x1de
     kmem_cache_free+0x25a/0x260
     __mpol_put+0x27/0x30
     remove_vma+0x68/0x90
     exit_mmap+0x118/0x140
     mmput+0x73/0x110
     exit_mm+0x108/0x130
     do_exit+0x162/0xb90
     do_group_exit+0x4f/0xc0
     sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20
     system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

    INFO: Slab 0xffffea0005192600 objects=27 used=27 fp=0x          (null) flags=0x20000000004080
    INFO: Object 0xffff880146498250 @offset=592 fp=0xffff88014649b9d0

The problem is that the structure is being prematurely freed due to a
reference count imbalance. In the following case mbind(addr, len) should
replace the memory policies of both vma1 and vma2 and thus they will
become to share the same mempolicy and the new mempolicy will have the
MPOL_F_SHARED flag.

  +-------------------+-------------------+
  |     vma1          |     vma2(shmem)   |
  +-------------------+-------------------+
  |                                       |
 addr                                 addr+len

alloc_pages_vma() uses get_vma_policy() and mpol_cond_put() pair for
maintaining the mempolicy reference count.  The current rule is that
get_vma_policy() only increments refcount for shmem VMA and
mpol_conf_put() only decrements refcount if the policy has
MPOL_F_SHARED.

In above case, vma1 is not shmem vma and vma->policy has MPOL_F_SHARED!
The reference count will be decreased even though was not increased
whenever alloc_page_vma() is called.  This has been broken since commit
[52cd3b07: mempolicy: rework mempolicy Reference Counting] in 2008.

There is another serious bug with the sharing of memory policies.
Currently, mempolicy rebind logic (it is called from cpuset rebinding)
ignores a refcount of mempolicy and override it forcibly.  Thus, any
mempolicy sharing may cause mempolicy corruption.  The bug was
introduced by commit [68860ec1: cpusets: automatic numa mempolicy
rebinding].

Ideally, the shared policy handling would be rewritten to either
properly handle COW of the policy structures or at least reference count
MPOL_F_SHARED based exclusively on information within the policy.
However, this patch takes the easier approach of disabling any policy
sharing between VMAs.  Each new range allocated with sp_alloc will
allocate a new policy, set the reference count to 1 and drop the
reference count of the old policy.  This increases the memory footprint
but is not expected to be a major problem as mbind() is unlikely to be
used for fine-grained ranges.  It is also inefficient because it means
we allocate a new policy even in cases where mbind_range() could use the
new_policy passed to it.  However, it is more straight-forward and the
change should be invisible to the user.

[mgorman@suse.de: Edited changelog]
Reported-by: Dave Jones ,
Cc: Christoph Lameter ,
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Josh Boyer 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

hugetlb: do not use vma_hugecache_offset() for vma_prio_tree_foreach

2012-10-17T02:49:47+00:00

commit 36e4f20af833d1ce196e6a4ade05dc26c44652d1 upstream.

Commit 0c176d52b0b2 ("mm: hugetlb: fix pgoff computation when unmapping
page from vma") fixed pgoff calculation but it has replaced it by
vma_hugecache_offset() which is not approapriate for offsets used for
vma_prio_tree_foreach() because that one expects index in page units
rather than in huge_page_shift.

Johannes said:

: The resulting index may not be too big, but it can be too small: assume
: hpage size of 2M and the address to unmap to be 0x200000.  This is regular
: page index 512 and hpage index 1.  If you have a VMA that maps the file
: only starting at the second huge page, that VMAs vm_pgoff will be 512 but
: you ask for offset 1 and miss it even though it does map the page of
: interest.  hugetlb_cow() will try to unmap, miss the vma, and retry the
: cow until the allocation succeeds or the skipped vma(s) go away.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Hillf Danton 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

mm: hugetlb: fix pgoff computation when unmapping page from vma

2012-10-17T02:49:46+00:00

commit 0c176d52b0b2619f231b2bbf329b90c028134f58 upstream.

The computation for pgoff is incorrect, at least with

	(vma->vm_pgoff >> PAGE_SHIFT)

involved.  It is fixed with the available method if HPAGE_SIZE is
concerned in page cache lookup.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use vma_hugecache_offset() directly, per Michal]
Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

mm: fix invalidate_complete_page2() lock ordering

2012-10-17T02:49:45+00:00

commit ec4d9f626d5908b6052c2973f37992f1db52e967 upstream.

In fuzzing with trinity, lockdep protested "possible irq lock inversion
dependency detected" when isolate_lru_page() reenabled interrupts while
still holding the supposedly irq-safe tree_lock:

invalidate_inode_pages2
  invalidate_complete_page2
    spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock)
    clear_page_mlock
      isolate_lru_page
        spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock)

isolate_lru_page() is correct to enable interrupts unconditionally:
invalidate_complete_page2() is incorrect to call clear_page_mlock() while
holding tree_lock, which is supposed to nest inside lru_lock.

Both truncate_complete_page() and invalidate_complete_page() call
clear_page_mlock() before taking tree_lock to remove page from radix_tree.
 I guess invalidate_complete_page2() preferred to test PageDirty (again)
under tree_lock before committing to the munlock; but since the page has
already been unmapped, its state is already somewhat inconsistent, and no
worse if clear_page_mlock() moved up.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin 
Deciphered-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michel Lespinasse 
Cc: Ying Han 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings