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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Sanitize 'move_pages()' permission checks</title>
<updated>2017-08-25T00:02:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-20T20:26:27+00:00</published>
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commit 197e7e521384a23b9e585178f3f11c9fa08274b9 upstream.

The 'move_paghes()' system call was introduced long long ago with the
same permission checks as for sending a signal (except using
CAP_SYS_NICE instead of CAP_SYS_KILL for the overriding capability).

That turns out to not be a great choice - while the system call really
only moves physical page allocations around (and you need other
capabilities to do a lot of it), you can check the return value to map
out some the virtual address choices and defeat ASLR of a binary that
still shares your uid.

So change the access checks to the more common 'ptrace_may_access()'
model instead.

This tightens the access checks for the uid, and also effectively
changes the CAP_SYS_NICE check to CAP_SYS_PTRACE, but it's unlikely that
anybody really _uses_ this legacy system call any more (we hav ebetter
NUMA placement models these days), so I expect nobody to notice.

Famous last words.

Reported-by: Otto Ebeling &lt;otto.ebeling@iki.fi&gt;
Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&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 197e7e521384a23b9e585178f3f11c9fa08274b9 upstream.

The 'move_paghes()' system call was introduced long long ago with the
same permission checks as for sending a signal (except using
CAP_SYS_NICE instead of CAP_SYS_KILL for the overriding capability).

That turns out to not be a great choice - while the system call really
only moves physical page allocations around (and you need other
capabilities to do a lot of it), you can check the return value to map
out some the virtual address choices and defeat ASLR of a binary that
still shares your uid.

So change the access checks to the more common 'ptrace_may_access()'
model instead.

This tightens the access checks for the uid, and also effectively
changes the CAP_SYS_NICE check to CAP_SYS_PTRACE, but it's unlikely that
anybody really _uses_ this legacy system call any more (we hav ebetter
NUMA placement models these days), so I expect nobody to notice.

Famous last words.

Reported-by: Otto Ebeling &lt;otto.ebeling@iki.fi&gt;
Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&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/mempolicy: fix use after free when calling get_mempolicy</title>
<updated>2017-08-25T00:02:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>zhong jiang</name>
<email>zhongjiang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-18T22:16:24+00:00</published>
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commit 73223e4e2e3867ebf033a5a8eb2e5df0158ccc99 upstream.

I hit a use after free issue when executing trinity and repoduced it
with KASAN enabled.  The related call trace is as follows.

  BUG: KASan: use after free in SyS_get_mempolicy+0x3c8/0x960 at addr ffff8801f582d766
  Read of size 2 by task syz-executor1/798

  INFO: Allocated in mpol_new.part.2+0x74/0x160 age=3 cpu=1 pid=799
     __slab_alloc+0x768/0x970
     kmem_cache_alloc+0x2e7/0x450
     mpol_new.part.2+0x74/0x160
     mpol_new+0x66/0x80
     SyS_mbind+0x267/0x9f0
     system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
  INFO: Freed in __mpol_put+0x2b/0x40 age=4 cpu=1 pid=799
     __slab_free+0x495/0x8e0
     kmem_cache_free+0x2f3/0x4c0
     __mpol_put+0x2b/0x40
     SyS_mbind+0x383/0x9f0
     system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
  INFO: Slab 0xffffea0009cb8dc0 objects=23 used=8 fp=0xffff8801f582de40 flags=0x200000000004080
  INFO: Object 0xffff8801f582d760 @offset=5984 fp=0xffff8801f582d600

  Bytes b4 ffff8801f582d750: ae 01 ff ff 00 00 00 00 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a  ........ZZZZZZZZ
  Object ffff8801f582d760: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b  kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
  Object ffff8801f582d770: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b a5                          kkkkkkk.
  Redzone ffff8801f582d778: bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb                          ........
  Padding ffff8801f582d8b8: 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a                          ZZZZZZZZ
  Memory state around the buggy address:
  ffff8801f582d600: fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
  ffff8801f582d680: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
  &gt;ffff8801f582d700: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fb fb fb fc

!shared memory policy is not protected against parallel removal by other
thread which is normally protected by the mmap_sem.  do_get_mempolicy,
however, drops the lock midway while we can still access it later.

Early premature up_read is a historical artifact from times when
put_user was called in this path see https://lwn.net/Articles/124754/
but that is gone since 8bccd85ffbaf ("[PATCH] Implement sys_* do_*
layering in the memory policy layer.").  but when we have the the
current mempolicy ref count model.  The issue was introduced
accordingly.

Fix the issue by removing the premature release.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502950924-27521-1-git-send-email-zhongjiang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: zhong jiang &lt;zhongjiang@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&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 73223e4e2e3867ebf033a5a8eb2e5df0158ccc99 upstream.

I hit a use after free issue when executing trinity and repoduced it
with KASAN enabled.  The related call trace is as follows.

  BUG: KASan: use after free in SyS_get_mempolicy+0x3c8/0x960 at addr ffff8801f582d766
  Read of size 2 by task syz-executor1/798

  INFO: Allocated in mpol_new.part.2+0x74/0x160 age=3 cpu=1 pid=799
     __slab_alloc+0x768/0x970
     kmem_cache_alloc+0x2e7/0x450
     mpol_new.part.2+0x74/0x160
     mpol_new+0x66/0x80
     SyS_mbind+0x267/0x9f0
     system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
  INFO: Freed in __mpol_put+0x2b/0x40 age=4 cpu=1 pid=799
     __slab_free+0x495/0x8e0
     kmem_cache_free+0x2f3/0x4c0
     __mpol_put+0x2b/0x40
     SyS_mbind+0x383/0x9f0
     system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
  INFO: Slab 0xffffea0009cb8dc0 objects=23 used=8 fp=0xffff8801f582de40 flags=0x200000000004080
  INFO: Object 0xffff8801f582d760 @offset=5984 fp=0xffff8801f582d600

  Bytes b4 ffff8801f582d750: ae 01 ff ff 00 00 00 00 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a  ........ZZZZZZZZ
  Object ffff8801f582d760: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b  kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
  Object ffff8801f582d770: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b a5                          kkkkkkk.
  Redzone ffff8801f582d778: bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb                          ........
  Padding ffff8801f582d8b8: 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a                          ZZZZZZZZ
  Memory state around the buggy address:
  ffff8801f582d600: fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
  ffff8801f582d680: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
  &gt;ffff8801f582d700: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fb fb fb fc

!shared memory policy is not protected against parallel removal by other
thread which is normally protected by the mmap_sem.  do_get_mempolicy,
however, drops the lock midway while we can still access it later.

Early premature up_read is a historical artifact from times when
put_user was called in this path see https://lwn.net/Articles/124754/
but that is gone since 8bccd85ffbaf ("[PATCH] Implement sys_* do_*
layering in the memory policy layer.").  but when we have the the
current mempolicy ref count model.  The issue was introduced
accordingly.

Fix the issue by removing the premature release.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502950924-27521-1-git-send-email-zhongjiang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: zhong jiang &lt;zhongjiang@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&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: ratelimit PFNs busy info message</title>
<updated>2017-08-16T20:40:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Toppins</name>
<email>jtoppins@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-10T22:23:35+00:00</published>
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commit 75dddef32514f7aa58930bde6a1263253bc3d4ba upstream.

The RDMA subsystem can generate several thousand of these messages per
second eventually leading to a kernel crash.  Ratelimit these messages
to prevent this crash.

Doug said:
 "I've been carrying a version of this for several kernel versions. I
  don't remember when they started, but we have one (and only one) class
  of machines: Dell PE R730xd, that generate these errors. When it
  happens, without a rate limit, we get rcu timeouts and kernel oopses.
  With the rate limit, we just get a lot of annoying kernel messages but
  the machine continues on, recovers, and eventually the memory
  operations all succeed"

And:
 "&gt; Well... why are all these EBUSY's occurring? It sounds inefficient
  &gt; (at least) but if it is expected, normal and unavoidable then
  &gt; perhaps we should just remove that message altogether?

  I don't have an answer to that question. To be honest, I haven't
  looked real hard. We never had this at all, then it started out of the
  blue, but only on our Dell 730xd machines (and it hits all of them),
  but no other classes or brands of machines. And we have our 730xd
  machines loaded up with different brands and models of cards (for
  instance one dedicated to mlx4 hardware, one for qib, one for mlx5, an
  ocrdma/cxgb4 combo, etc), so the fact that it hit all of the machines
  meant it wasn't tied to any particular brand/model of RDMA hardware.
  To me, it always smelled of a hardware oddity specific to maybe the
  CPUs or mainboard chipsets in these machines, so given that I'm not an
  mm expert anyway, I never chased it down.

  A few other relevant details: it showed up somewhere around 4.8/4.9 or
  thereabouts. It never happened before, but the prinkt has been there
  since the 3.18 days, so possibly the test to trigger this message was
  changed, or something else in the allocator changed such that the
  situation started happening on these machines?

  And, like I said, it is specific to our 730xd machines (but they are
  all identical, so that could mean it's something like their specific
  ram configuration is causing the allocator to hit this on these
  machine but not on other machines in the cluster, I don't want to say
  it's necessarily the model of chipset or CPU, there are other bits of
  identicalness between these machines)"

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/499c0f6cc10d6eb829a67f2a4d75b4228a9b356e.1501695897.git.jtoppins@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Toppins &lt;jtoppins@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Doug Ledford &lt;dledford@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Doug Ledford &lt;dledford@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.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 75dddef32514f7aa58930bde6a1263253bc3d4ba upstream.

The RDMA subsystem can generate several thousand of these messages per
second eventually leading to a kernel crash.  Ratelimit these messages
to prevent this crash.

Doug said:
 "I've been carrying a version of this for several kernel versions. I
  don't remember when they started, but we have one (and only one) class
  of machines: Dell PE R730xd, that generate these errors. When it
  happens, without a rate limit, we get rcu timeouts and kernel oopses.
  With the rate limit, we just get a lot of annoying kernel messages but
  the machine continues on, recovers, and eventually the memory
  operations all succeed"

And:
 "&gt; Well... why are all these EBUSY's occurring? It sounds inefficient
  &gt; (at least) but if it is expected, normal and unavoidable then
  &gt; perhaps we should just remove that message altogether?

  I don't have an answer to that question. To be honest, I haven't
  looked real hard. We never had this at all, then it started out of the
  blue, but only on our Dell 730xd machines (and it hits all of them),
  but no other classes or brands of machines. And we have our 730xd
  machines loaded up with different brands and models of cards (for
  instance one dedicated to mlx4 hardware, one for qib, one for mlx5, an
  ocrdma/cxgb4 combo, etc), so the fact that it hit all of the machines
  meant it wasn't tied to any particular brand/model of RDMA hardware.
  To me, it always smelled of a hardware oddity specific to maybe the
  CPUs or mainboard chipsets in these machines, so given that I'm not an
  mm expert anyway, I never chased it down.

  A few other relevant details: it showed up somewhere around 4.8/4.9 or
  thereabouts. It never happened before, but the prinkt has been there
  since the 3.18 days, so possibly the test to trigger this message was
  changed, or something else in the allocator changed such that the
  situation started happening on these machines?

  And, like I said, it is specific to our 730xd machines (but they are
  all identical, so that could mean it's something like their specific
  ram configuration is causing the allocator to hit this on these
  machine but not on other machines in the cluster, I don't want to say
  it's necessarily the model of chipset or CPU, there are other bits of
  identicalness between these machines)"

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/499c0f6cc10d6eb829a67f2a4d75b4228a9b356e.1501695897.git.jtoppins@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Toppins &lt;jtoppins@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Doug Ledford &lt;dledford@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Doug Ledford &lt;dledford@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.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/mempool: avoid KASAN marking mempool poison checks as use-after-free</title>
<updated>2017-08-13T02:29:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Dawson</name>
<email>matthew@mjdsystems.ca</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-11T21:08:07+00:00</published>
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commit 7640131032db9118a78af715ac77ba2debeeb17c upstream.

When removing an element from the mempool, mark it as unpoisoned in KASAN
before verifying its contents for SLUB/SLAB debugging.  Otherwise KASAN
will flag the reads checking the element use-after-free writes as
use-after-free reads.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dawson &lt;matthew@mjdsystems.ca&gt;
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrii Bordunov &lt;aborduno@cisco.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 7640131032db9118a78af715ac77ba2debeeb17c upstream.

When removing an element from the mempool, mark it as unpoisoned in KASAN
before verifying its contents for SLUB/SLAB debugging.  Otherwise KASAN
will flag the reads checking the element use-after-free writes as
use-after-free reads.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dawson &lt;matthew@mjdsystems.ca&gt;
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrii Bordunov &lt;aborduno@cisco.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: don't dereference struct page fields of invalid pages</title>
<updated>2017-08-11T16:08:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-11T00:58:00+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit f073bdc51771f5a5c7a8d1191bfc3ae371d44de7 ]

The VM_BUG_ON() check in move_freepages() checks whether the node id of
a page matches the node id of its zone.  However, it does this before
having checked whether the struct page pointer refers to a valid struct
page to begin with.  This is guaranteed in most cases, but may not be
the case if CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE=y.

So reorder the VM_BUG_ON() with the pfn_valid_within() check.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481706707-6211-2-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Hanjun Guo &lt;hanjun.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Yisheng Xie &lt;xieyisheng1@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Robert Richter &lt;rrichter@cavium.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.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: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit f073bdc51771f5a5c7a8d1191bfc3ae371d44de7 ]

The VM_BUG_ON() check in move_freepages() checks whether the node id of
a page matches the node id of its zone.  However, it does this before
having checked whether the struct page pointer refers to a valid struct
page to begin with.  This is guaranteed in most cases, but may not be
the case if CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE=y.

So reorder the VM_BUG_ON() with the pfn_valid_within() check.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481706707-6211-2-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Hanjun Guo &lt;hanjun.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Yisheng Xie &lt;xieyisheng1@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Robert Richter &lt;rrichter@cavium.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.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: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, mprotect: flush TLB if potentially racing with a parallel reclaim leaving stale TLB entries</title>
<updated>2017-08-11T16:08:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-02T20:31:52+00:00</published>
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commit 3ea277194daaeaa84ce75180ec7c7a2075027a68 upstream.

Stable note for 4.4: The upstream patch patches madvise(MADV_FREE) but 4.4
	does not have support for that feature. The changelog is left
	as-is but the hunk related to madvise is omitted from the backport.

Nadav Amit identified a theoritical race between page reclaim and
mprotect due to TLB flushes being batched outside of the PTL being held.

He described the race as follows:

        CPU0                            CPU1
        ----                            ----
                                        user accesses memory using RW PTE
                                        [PTE now cached in TLB]
        try_to_unmap_one()
        ==&gt; ptep_get_and_clear()
        ==&gt; set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending()
                                        mprotect(addr, PROT_READ)
                                        ==&gt; change_pte_range()
                                        ==&gt; [ PTE non-present - no flush ]

                                        user writes using cached RW PTE
        ...

        try_to_unmap_flush()

The same type of race exists for reads when protecting for PROT_NONE and
also exists for operations that can leave an old TLB entry behind such
as munmap, mremap and madvise.

For some operations like mprotect, it's not necessarily a data integrity
issue but it is a correctness issue as there is a window where an
mprotect that limits access still allows access.  For munmap, it's
potentially a data integrity issue although the race is massive as an
munmap, mmap and return to userspace must all complete between the
window when reclaim drops the PTL and flushes the TLB.  However, it's
theoritically possible so handle this issue by flushing the mm if
reclaim is potentially currently batching TLB flushes.

Other instances where a flush is required for a present pte should be ok
as either the page lock is held preventing parallel reclaim or a page
reference count is elevated preventing a parallel free leading to
corruption.  In the case of page_mkclean there isn't an obvious path
that userspace could take advantage of without using the operations that
are guarded by this patch.  Other users such as gup as a race with
reclaim looks just at PTEs.  huge page variants should be ok as they
don't race with reclaim.  mincore only looks at PTEs.  userfault also
should be ok as if a parallel reclaim takes place, it will either fault
the page back in or read some of the data before the flush occurs
triggering a fault.

Note that a variant of this patch was acked by Andy Lutomirski but this
was for the x86 parts on top of his PCID work which didn't make the 4.13
merge window as expected.  His ack is dropped from this version and
there will be a follow-on patch on top of PCID that will include his
ack.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170717155523.emckq2esjro6hf3z@suse.de
Reported-by: Nadav Amit &lt;nadav.amit@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.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 3ea277194daaeaa84ce75180ec7c7a2075027a68 upstream.

Stable note for 4.4: The upstream patch patches madvise(MADV_FREE) but 4.4
	does not have support for that feature. The changelog is left
	as-is but the hunk related to madvise is omitted from the backport.

Nadav Amit identified a theoritical race between page reclaim and
mprotect due to TLB flushes being batched outside of the PTL being held.

He described the race as follows:

        CPU0                            CPU1
        ----                            ----
                                        user accesses memory using RW PTE
                                        [PTE now cached in TLB]
        try_to_unmap_one()
        ==&gt; ptep_get_and_clear()
        ==&gt; set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending()
                                        mprotect(addr, PROT_READ)
                                        ==&gt; change_pte_range()
                                        ==&gt; [ PTE non-present - no flush ]

                                        user writes using cached RW PTE
        ...

        try_to_unmap_flush()

The same type of race exists for reads when protecting for PROT_NONE and
also exists for operations that can leave an old TLB entry behind such
as munmap, mremap and madvise.

For some operations like mprotect, it's not necessarily a data integrity
issue but it is a correctness issue as there is a window where an
mprotect that limits access still allows access.  For munmap, it's
potentially a data integrity issue although the race is massive as an
munmap, mmap and return to userspace must all complete between the
window when reclaim drops the PTL and flushes the TLB.  However, it's
theoritically possible so handle this issue by flushing the mm if
reclaim is potentially currently batching TLB flushes.

Other instances where a flush is required for a present pte should be ok
as either the page lock is held preventing parallel reclaim or a page
reference count is elevated preventing a parallel free leading to
corruption.  In the case of page_mkclean there isn't an obvious path
that userspace could take advantage of without using the operations that
are guarded by this patch.  Other users such as gup as a race with
reclaim looks just at PTEs.  huge page variants should be ok as they
don't race with reclaim.  mincore only looks at PTEs.  userfault also
should be ok as if a parallel reclaim takes place, it will either fault
the page back in or read some of the data before the flush occurs
triggering a fault.

Note that a variant of this patch was acked by Andy Lutomirski but this
was for the x86 parts on top of his PCID work which didn't make the 4.13
merge window as expected.  His ack is dropped from this version and
there will be a follow-on patch on top of PCID that will include his
ack.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170717155523.emckq2esjro6hf3z@suse.de
Reported-by: Nadav Amit &lt;nadav.amit@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.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>
<entry>
<title>mm/page_alloc: Remove kernel address exposure in free_reserved_area()</title>
<updated>2017-08-11T16:08:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-25T14:51:14+00:00</published>
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commit adb1fe9ae2ee6ef6bc10f3d5a588020e7664dfa7 upstream.

Linus suggested we try to remove some of the low-hanging fruit related
to kernel address exposure in dmesg.  The only leaks I see on my local
system are:

  Freeing SMP alternatives memory: 32K (ffffffff9e309000 - ffffffff9e311000)
  Freeing initrd memory: 10588K (ffffa0b736b42000 - ffffa0b737599000)
  Freeing unused kernel memory: 3592K (ffffffff9df87000 - ffffffff9e309000)
  Freeing unused kernel memory: 1352K (ffffa0b7288ae000 - ffffa0b728a00000)
  Freeing unused kernel memory: 632K (ffffa0b728d62000 - ffffa0b728e00000)

Linus says:

  "I suspect we should just remove [the addresses in the 'Freeing'
   messages]. I'm sure they are useful in theory, but I suspect they
   were more useful back when the whole "free init memory" was
   originally done.

   These days, if we have a use-after-free, I suspect the init-mem
   situation is the easiest situation by far. Compared to all the dynamic
   allocations which are much more likely to show it anyway. So having
   debug output for that case is likely not all that productive."

With this patch the freeing messages now look like this:

  Freeing SMP alternatives memory: 32K
  Freeing initrd memory: 10588K
  Freeing unused kernel memory: 3592K
  Freeing unused kernel memory: 1352K
  Freeing unused kernel memory: 632K

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6836ff90c45b71d38e5d4405aec56fa9e5d1d4b2.1477405374.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit adb1fe9ae2ee6ef6bc10f3d5a588020e7664dfa7 upstream.

Linus suggested we try to remove some of the low-hanging fruit related
to kernel address exposure in dmesg.  The only leaks I see on my local
system are:

  Freeing SMP alternatives memory: 32K (ffffffff9e309000 - ffffffff9e311000)
  Freeing initrd memory: 10588K (ffffa0b736b42000 - ffffa0b737599000)
  Freeing unused kernel memory: 3592K (ffffffff9df87000 - ffffffff9e309000)
  Freeing unused kernel memory: 1352K (ffffa0b7288ae000 - ffffa0b728a00000)
  Freeing unused kernel memory: 632K (ffffa0b728d62000 - ffffa0b728e00000)

Linus says:

  "I suspect we should just remove [the addresses in the 'Freeing'
   messages]. I'm sure they are useful in theory, but I suspect they
   were more useful back when the whole "free init memory" was
   originally done.

   These days, if we have a use-after-free, I suspect the init-mem
   situation is the easiest situation by far. Compared to all the dynamic
   allocations which are much more likely to show it anyway. So having
   debug output for that case is likely not all that productive."

With this patch the freeing messages now look like this:

  Freeing SMP alternatives memory: 32K
  Freeing initrd memory: 10588K
  Freeing unused kernel memory: 3592K
  Freeing unused kernel memory: 1352K
  Freeing unused kernel memory: 632K

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6836ff90c45b71d38e5d4405aec56fa9e5d1d4b2.1477405374.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: fix overflow check in expand_upwards()</title>
<updated>2017-07-21T05:44:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-14T21:49:38+00:00</published>
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commit 37511fb5c91db93d8bd6e3f52f86e5a7ff7cfcdf upstream.

JÃ¶rn Engel noticed that the expand_upwards() function might not return
-ENOMEM in case the requested address is (unsigned long)-PAGE_SIZE and
if the architecture didn't defined TASK_SIZE as multiple of PAGE_SIZE.

Affected architectures are arm, frv, m68k, blackfin, h8300 and xtensa
which all define TASK_SIZE as 0xffffffff, but since none of those have
an upwards-growing stack we currently have no actual issue.

Nevertheless let's fix this just in case any of the architectures with
an upward-growing stack (currently parisc, metag and partly ia64) define
TASK_SIZE similar.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170702192452.GA11868@p100.box
Fixes: bd726c90b6b8 ("Allow stack to grow up to address space limit")
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Reported-by: Jörn Engel &lt;joern@purestorage.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@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;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 37511fb5c91db93d8bd6e3f52f86e5a7ff7cfcdf upstream.

JÃ¶rn Engel noticed that the expand_upwards() function might not return
-ENOMEM in case the requested address is (unsigned long)-PAGE_SIZE and
if the architecture didn't defined TASK_SIZE as multiple of PAGE_SIZE.

Affected architectures are arm, frv, m68k, blackfin, h8300 and xtensa
which all define TASK_SIZE as 0xffffffff, but since none of those have
an upwards-growing stack we currently have no actual issue.

Nevertheless let's fix this just in case any of the architectures with
an upward-growing stack (currently parisc, metag and partly ia64) define
TASK_SIZE similar.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170702192452.GA11868@p100.box
Fixes: bd726c90b6b8 ("Allow stack to grow up to address space limit")
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Reported-by: Jörn Engel &lt;joern@purestorage.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@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;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/list_lru.c: fix list_lru_count_node() to be race free</title>
<updated>2017-07-21T05:44:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sahitya Tummala</name>
<email>stummala@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-10T22:49:57+00:00</published>
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commit 2c80cd57c74339889a8752b20862a16c28929c3a upstream.

list_lru_count_node() iterates over all memcgs to get the total number of
entries on the node but it can race with memcg_drain_all_list_lrus(),
which migrates the entries from a dead cgroup to another.  This can return
incorrect number of entries from list_lru_count_node().

Fix this by keeping track of entries per node and simply return it in
list_lru_count_node().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498707555-30525-1-git-send-email-stummala@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Sahitya Tummala &lt;stummala@codeaurora.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov.dev@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Alexander Polakov &lt;apolyakov@beget.ru&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&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 2c80cd57c74339889a8752b20862a16c28929c3a upstream.

list_lru_count_node() iterates over all memcgs to get the total number of
entries on the node but it can race with memcg_drain_all_list_lrus(),
which migrates the entries from a dead cgroup to another.  This can return
incorrect number of entries from list_lru_count_node().

Fix this by keeping track of entries per node and simply return it in
list_lru_count_node().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498707555-30525-1-git-send-email-stummala@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Sahitya Tummala &lt;stummala@codeaurora.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov.dev@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Alexander Polakov &lt;apolyakov@beget.ru&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&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: fix classzone_idx underflow in shrink_zones()</title>
<updated>2017-07-15T09:57:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vlastimil Babka</name>
<email>vbabka@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-04T08:45:43+00:00</published>
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[Not upstream as that would take 34+ patches]

We've got reported a BUG in do_try_to_free_pages():

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8ffffff28990
IP: [&lt;ffffffff8119abe0&gt;] do_try_to_free_pages+0x140/0x490
PGD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
megaraid_sas sg scsi_mod efivarfs autofs4
Supported: No, Unsupported modules are loaded
Workqueue: kacpi_hotplug acpi_hotplug_work_fn
task: ffff88ffd0d4c540 ti: ffff88ffd0e48000 task.ti: ffff88ffd0e48000
RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff8119abe0&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff8119abe0&gt;] do_try_to_free_pages+0x140/0x490
RSP: 0018:ffff88ffd0e4ba60  EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: 000006fffffff900 RBX: 00000000ffffffff RCX: ffff88fffff29000
RDX: 000000ffffffff00 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: 00000000024200c8
RBP: 0000000001320122 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff88ffd0e4bbac
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88ffd0e4bae0
R13: 0000000000000e00 R14: ffff88fffff2a500 R15: ffff88fffff2b300
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88ffe6440000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffff8ffffff28990 CR3: 0000000001c0a000 CR4: 00000000003406e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Stack:
 00000002db570a80 024200c80000001e ffff88fffff2b300 0000000000000000
 ffff88fffffd5700 ffff88ffd0d4c540 ffff88ffd0d4c540 ffffffff0000000c
 0000000000000000 0000000000000040 00000000024200c8 ffff88ffd0e4bae0
Call Trace:
 [&lt;ffffffff8119afea&gt;] try_to_free_pages+0xba/0x170
 [&lt;ffffffff8118cf2f&gt;] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x53f/0xb20
 [&lt;ffffffff811d39ff&gt;] alloc_pages_current+0x7f/0x100
 [&lt;ffffffff811e2232&gt;] migrate_pages+0x202/0x710
 [&lt;ffffffff815dadaa&gt;] __offline_pages.constprop.23+0x4ba/0x790
 [&lt;ffffffff81463263&gt;] memory_subsys_offline+0x43/0x70
 [&lt;ffffffff8144cbed&gt;] device_offline+0x7d/0xa0
 [&lt;ffffffff81392fa2&gt;] acpi_bus_offline+0xa5/0xef
 [&lt;ffffffff81394a77&gt;] acpi_device_hotplug+0x21b/0x41f
 [&lt;ffffffff8138dab7&gt;] acpi_hotplug_work_fn+0x1a/0x23
 [&lt;ffffffff81093cee&gt;] process_one_work+0x14e/0x410
 [&lt;ffffffff81094546&gt;] worker_thread+0x116/0x490
 [&lt;ffffffff810999ed&gt;] kthread+0xbd/0xe0
 [&lt;ffffffff815e4e7f&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70

This translates to the loop in shrink_zone():

classzone_idx = requested_highidx;
while (!populated_zone(zone-&gt;zone_pgdat-&gt;node_zones +
					classzone_idx))
	classzone_idx--;

where no zone is populated, so classzone_idx becomes -1 (in RBX).

Added debugging output reveals that we enter the function with
sc-&gt;gfp_mask == GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL|__GFP_HARDWALL|__GFP_MOVABLE
requested_highidx = gfp_zone(sc-&gt;gfp_mask) == 2 (ZONE_NORMAL)

Inside the for loop, however:
gfp_zone(sc-&gt;gfp_mask) == 3 (ZONE_MOVABLE)

This means we have gone through this branch:

if (buffer_heads_over_limit)
    sc-&gt;gfp_mask |= __GFP_HIGHMEM;

This changes the gfp_zone() result, but requested_highidx remains unchanged.
On nodes where the only populated zone is movable, the inner while loop will
check only lower zones, which are not populated, and underflow classzone_idx.

To sum up, the bug occurs in configurations with ZONE_MOVABLE (such as when
booted with the movable_node parameter) and only in situations when
buffer_heads_over_limit is true, and there's an allocation with __GFP_MOVABLE
and without __GFP_HIGHMEM performing direct reclaim.

This patch makes sure that classzone_idx starts with the correct zone.

Mainline has been affected in versions 4.6 and 4.7, but the culprit commit has
been also included in stable trees.
In mainline, this has been fixed accidentally as part of 34-patch series (plus
follow-up fixes) "Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes", which makes the
mainline commit unsuitable for stable backport, unfortunately.

Fixes: 7bf52fb891b6 ("mm: vmscan: reclaim highmem zone if buffer_heads is over limit")
Obsoleted-by: b2e18757f2c9 ("mm, vmscan: begin reclaiming pages on a per-node basis")
Debugged-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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[Not upstream as that would take 34+ patches]

We've got reported a BUG in do_try_to_free_pages():

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8ffffff28990
IP: [&lt;ffffffff8119abe0&gt;] do_try_to_free_pages+0x140/0x490
PGD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
megaraid_sas sg scsi_mod efivarfs autofs4
Supported: No, Unsupported modules are loaded
Workqueue: kacpi_hotplug acpi_hotplug_work_fn
task: ffff88ffd0d4c540 ti: ffff88ffd0e48000 task.ti: ffff88ffd0e48000
RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff8119abe0&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff8119abe0&gt;] do_try_to_free_pages+0x140/0x490
RSP: 0018:ffff88ffd0e4ba60  EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: 000006fffffff900 RBX: 00000000ffffffff RCX: ffff88fffff29000
RDX: 000000ffffffff00 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: 00000000024200c8
RBP: 0000000001320122 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff88ffd0e4bbac
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88ffd0e4bae0
R13: 0000000000000e00 R14: ffff88fffff2a500 R15: ffff88fffff2b300
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88ffe6440000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffff8ffffff28990 CR3: 0000000001c0a000 CR4: 00000000003406e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Stack:
 00000002db570a80 024200c80000001e ffff88fffff2b300 0000000000000000
 ffff88fffffd5700 ffff88ffd0d4c540 ffff88ffd0d4c540 ffffffff0000000c
 0000000000000000 0000000000000040 00000000024200c8 ffff88ffd0e4bae0
Call Trace:
 [&lt;ffffffff8119afea&gt;] try_to_free_pages+0xba/0x170
 [&lt;ffffffff8118cf2f&gt;] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x53f/0xb20
 [&lt;ffffffff811d39ff&gt;] alloc_pages_current+0x7f/0x100
 [&lt;ffffffff811e2232&gt;] migrate_pages+0x202/0x710
 [&lt;ffffffff815dadaa&gt;] __offline_pages.constprop.23+0x4ba/0x790
 [&lt;ffffffff81463263&gt;] memory_subsys_offline+0x43/0x70
 [&lt;ffffffff8144cbed&gt;] device_offline+0x7d/0xa0
 [&lt;ffffffff81392fa2&gt;] acpi_bus_offline+0xa5/0xef
 [&lt;ffffffff81394a77&gt;] acpi_device_hotplug+0x21b/0x41f
 [&lt;ffffffff8138dab7&gt;] acpi_hotplug_work_fn+0x1a/0x23
 [&lt;ffffffff81093cee&gt;] process_one_work+0x14e/0x410
 [&lt;ffffffff81094546&gt;] worker_thread+0x116/0x490
 [&lt;ffffffff810999ed&gt;] kthread+0xbd/0xe0
 [&lt;ffffffff815e4e7f&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70

This translates to the loop in shrink_zone():

classzone_idx = requested_highidx;
while (!populated_zone(zone-&gt;zone_pgdat-&gt;node_zones +
					classzone_idx))
	classzone_idx--;

where no zone is populated, so classzone_idx becomes -1 (in RBX).

Added debugging output reveals that we enter the function with
sc-&gt;gfp_mask == GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL|__GFP_HARDWALL|__GFP_MOVABLE
requested_highidx = gfp_zone(sc-&gt;gfp_mask) == 2 (ZONE_NORMAL)

Inside the for loop, however:
gfp_zone(sc-&gt;gfp_mask) == 3 (ZONE_MOVABLE)

This means we have gone through this branch:

if (buffer_heads_over_limit)
    sc-&gt;gfp_mask |= __GFP_HIGHMEM;

This changes the gfp_zone() result, but requested_highidx remains unchanged.
On nodes where the only populated zone is movable, the inner while loop will
check only lower zones, which are not populated, and underflow classzone_idx.

To sum up, the bug occurs in configurations with ZONE_MOVABLE (such as when
booted with the movable_node parameter) and only in situations when
buffer_heads_over_limit is true, and there's an allocation with __GFP_MOVABLE
and without __GFP_HIGHMEM performing direct reclaim.

This patch makes sure that classzone_idx starts with the correct zone.

Mainline has been affected in versions 4.6 and 4.7, but the culprit commit has
been also included in stable trees.
In mainline, this has been fixed accidentally as part of 34-patch series (plus
follow-up fixes) "Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes", which makes the
mainline commit unsuitable for stable backport, unfortunately.

Fixes: 7bf52fb891b6 ("mm: vmscan: reclaim highmem zone if buffer_heads is over limit")
Obsoleted-by: b2e18757f2c9 ("mm, vmscan: begin reclaiming pages on a per-node basis")
Debugged-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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