linux-toradex.git/mm, branch v4.4.106

thp: fix MADV_DONTNEED vs. numa balancing race

2017-12-16T09:33:50+00:00

commit ced108037c2aa542b3ed8b7afd1576064ad1362a upstream.

In case prot_numa, we are under down_read(mmap_sem).  It's critical to
not clear pmd intermittently to avoid race with MADV_DONTNEED which is
also under down_read(mmap_sem):

	CPU0:				CPU1:
				change_huge_pmd(prot_numa=1)
				 pmdp_huge_get_and_clear_notify()
madvise_dontneed()
 zap_pmd_range()
  pmd_trans_huge(*pmd) == 0 (without ptl)
  // skip the pmd
				 set_pmd_at();
				 // pmd is re-established

The race makes MADV_DONTNEED miss the huge pmd and don't clear it
which may break userspace.

Found by code analysis, never saw triggered.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170302151034.27829-3-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Hillf Danton 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
[jwang: adjust context for 4.4]
Signed-off-by: Jack Wang 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

thp: reduce indentation level in change_huge_pmd()

2017-12-16T09:33:50+00:00

commit 0a85e51d37645e9ce57e5e1a30859e07810ed07c upstream.

Patch series "thp: fix few MADV_DONTNEED races"

For MADV_DONTNEED to work properly with huge pages, it's critical to not
clear pmd intermittently unless you hold down_write(mmap_sem).

Otherwise MADV_DONTNEED can miss the THP which can lead to userspace
breakage.

See example of such race in commit message of patch 2/4.

All these races are found by code inspection.  I haven't seen them
triggered.  I don't think it's worth to apply them to stable@.

This patch (of 4):

Restructure code in preparation for a fix.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170302151034.27829-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Hillf Danton 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
[jwang: adjust context for 4.4 kernel]
Signed-off-by: Jack Wang 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/madvise.c: fix madvise() infinite loop under special circumstances

2017-12-05T10:22:50+00:00

commit 6ea8d958a2c95a1d514015d4e29ba21a8c0a1a91 upstream.

MADVISE_WILLNEED has always been a noop for DAX (formerly XIP) mappings.
Unfortunately madvise_willneed() doesn't communicate this information
properly to the generic madvise syscall implementation.  The calling
convention is quite subtle there.  madvise_vma() is supposed to either
return an error or update &prev otherwise the main loop will never
advance to the next vma and it will keep looping for ever without a way
to get out of the kernel.

It seems this has been broken since introduction.  Nobody has noticed
because nobody seems to be using MADVISE_WILLNEED on these DAX mappings.

[mhocko@suse.com: rewrite changelog]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171127115318.911-1-guoxuenan@huawei.com
Fixes: fe77ba6f4f97 ("[PATCH] xip: madvice/fadvice: execute in place")
Signed-off-by: chenjie 
Signed-off-by: guoxuenan 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: zhangyi (F) 
Cc: Miao Xie 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Shaohua Li 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Anshuman Khandual 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Carsten Otte 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm, thp: Do not make page table dirty unconditionally in touch_p[mu]d()

2017-12-05T10:22:50+00:00

commit a8f97366452ed491d13cf1e44241bc0b5740b1f0 upstream.

Currently, we unconditionally make page table dirty in touch_pmd().
It may result in false-positive can_follow_write_pmd().

We may avoid the situation, if we would only make the page table entry
dirty if caller asks for write access -- FOLL_WRITE.

The patch also changes touch_pud() in the same way.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
[Salvatore Bonaccorso: backport for 3.16:
 - Adjust context
 - Drop specific part for PUD-sized transparent hugepages. Support
   for PUD-sized transparent hugepages was added in v4.11-rc1
]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm, hwpoison: fixup "mm: check the return value of lookup_page_ext for all call sites"

2017-11-24T10:26:29+00:00

Backport of the upstream commit f86e4271978b ("mm: check the return
value of lookup_page_ext for all call sites") is wrong for hwpoison
pages. I have accidentally negated the condition for bailout. This
basically disables hwpoison pages tracking while the code still
might crash on unusual configurations when struct pages do not have
page_ext allocated. The fix is trivial to invert the condition.

Reported-by: Jiri Slaby 
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/pagewalk.c: report holes in hugetlb ranges

2017-11-24T07:32:25+00:00

commit 373c4557d2aa362702c4c2d41288fb1e54990b7c upstream.

This matters at least for the mincore syscall, which will otherwise copy
uninitialized memory from the page allocator to userspace.  It is
probably also a correctness error for /proc/$pid/pagemap, but I haven't
tested that.

Removing the `walk->hugetlb_entry` condition in walk_hugetlb_range() has
no effect because the caller already checks for that.

This only reports holes in hugetlb ranges to callers who have specified
a hugetlb_entry callback.

This issue was found using an AFL-based fuzzer.

v2:
 - don't crash on ->pte_hole==NULL (Andrew Morton)
 - add Cc stable (Andrew Morton)

Changed for 4.4/4.9 stable backport:
 - fix up conflict in the huge_pte_offset() call

Fixes: 1e25a271c8ac ("mincore: apply page table walker on do_mincore()")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/page_ext.c: check if page_ext is not prepared

2017-11-24T07:32:25+00:00

commit e492080e640c2d1235ddf3441cae634cfffef7e1 upstream.

online_page_ext() and page_ext_init() allocate page_ext for each
section, but they do not allocate if the first PFN is !pfn_present(pfn)
or !pfn_valid(pfn).  Then section->page_ext remains as NULL.
lookup_page_ext checks NULL only if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is enabled.  For a
valid PFN, __set_page_owner will try to get page_ext through
lookup_page_ext.  Without CONFIG_DEBUG_VM lookup_page_ext will misuse
NULL pointer as value 0.  This incurrs invalid address access.

This is the panic example when PFN 0x100000 is not valid but PFN
0x13FC00 is being used for page_ext.  section->page_ext is NULL,
get_entry returned invalid page_ext address as 0x1DFA000 for a PFN
0x13FC00.

To avoid this panic, CONFIG_DEBUG_VM should be removed so that page_ext
will be checked at all times.

  Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 01dfa014
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  Kernel BUG at ffffff80082371e0 [verbose debug info unavailable]
  Internal error: Oops: 96000045 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
  Modules linked in:
  PC is at __set_page_owner+0x48/0x78
  LR is at __set_page_owner+0x44/0x78
    __set_page_owner+0x48/0x78
    get_page_from_freelist+0x880/0x8e8
    __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x14c/0xc48
    __do_page_cache_readahead+0xdc/0x264
    filemap_fault+0x2ac/0x550
    ext4_filemap_fault+0x3c/0x58
    __do_fault+0x80/0x120
    handle_mm_fault+0x704/0xbb0
    do_page_fault+0x2e8/0x394
    do_mem_abort+0x88/0x124

Pre-4.7 kernels also need commit f86e4271978b ("mm: check the return
value of lookup_page_ext for all call sites").

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171107094131.14621-1-jaewon31.kim@samsung.com
Fixes: eefa864b701d ("mm/page_ext: resurrect struct page extending code for debugging")
Signed-off-by: Jaewon Kim 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: check the return value of lookup_page_ext for all call sites

2017-11-24T07:32:25+00:00

commit f86e4271978bd93db466d6a95dad4b0fdcdb04f6 upstream.

Per the discussion with Joonsoo Kim [1], we need check the return value
of lookup_page_ext() for all call sites since it might return NULL in
some cases, although it is unlikely, i.e.  memory hotplug.

Tested with ltp with "page_owner=0".

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160519002809.GA10245@js1304-P5Q-DELUXE

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build-breaking typos]
[arnd@arndb.de: fix build problems from lookup_page_ext]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6285269.2CksypHdYp@wuerfel
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464023768-31025-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/page_alloc.c: broken deferred calculation

2017-11-24T07:32:25+00:00

commit d135e5750205a21a212a19dbb05aeb339e2cbea7 upstream.

In reset_deferred_meminit() we determine number of pages that must not
be deferred.  We initialize pages for at least 2G of memory, but also
pages for reserved memory in this node.

The reserved memory is determined in this function:
memblock_reserved_memory_within(), which operates over physical
addresses, and returns size in bytes.  However, reset_deferred_meminit()
assumes that that this function operates with pfns, and returns page
count.

The result is that in the best case machine boots slower than expected
due to initializing more pages than needed in single thread, and in the
worst case panics because fewer than needed pages are initialized early.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171021011707.15191-1-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com
Fixes: 864b9a393dcb ("mm: consider memblock reservations for deferred memory initialization sizing")
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

slub: do not merge cache if slub_debug contains a never-merge flag

2017-10-21T15:09:05+00:00

[ Upstream commit c6e28895a4372992961888ffaadc9efc643b5bfe ]

In case CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON=n, find_mergeable() gets debug features from
commandline but never checks if there are features from the
SLAB_NEVER_MERGE set.

As a result selected by slub_debug caches are always mergeable if they
have been created without a custom constructor set or without one of the
SLAB_* debug features on.

This moves the SLAB_NEVER_MERGE check below the flags update from
commandline to make sure it won't merge the slab cache if one of the debug
features is on.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170101124451.GA4740@lp-laptop-d
Signed-off-by: Grygorii Maistrenko 
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman