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<entry>
<title>mmap: relax file size limit for regular files</title>
<updated>2018-06-13T14:16:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-19T16:29:11+00:00</published>
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commit 423913ad4ae5b3e8fb8983f70969fb522261ba26 upstream.

Commit be83bbf80682 ("mmap: introduce sane default mmap limits") was
introduced to catch problems in various ad-hoc character device drivers
doing mmap and getting the size limits wrong.  In the process, it used
"known good" limits for the normal cases of mapping regular files and
block device drivers.

It turns out that the "s_maxbytes" limit was less "known good" than I
thought.  In particular, /proc doesn't set it, but exposes one regular
file to mmap: /proc/vmcore.  As a result, that file got limited to the
default MAX_INT s_maxbytes value.

This went unnoticed for a while, because apparently the only thing that
needs it is the s390 kernel zfcpdump, but there might be other tools
that use this too.

Vasily suggested just changing s_maxbytes for all of /proc, which isn't
wrong, but makes me nervous at this stage.  So instead, just make the
new mmap limit always be MAX_LFS_FILESIZE for regular files, which won't
affect anything else.  It wasn't the regular file case I was worried
about.

I'd really prefer for maxsize to have been per-inode, but that is not
how things are today.

Fixes: be83bbf80682 ("mmap: introduce sane default mmap limits")
Reported-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&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 423913ad4ae5b3e8fb8983f70969fb522261ba26 upstream.

Commit be83bbf80682 ("mmap: introduce sane default mmap limits") was
introduced to catch problems in various ad-hoc character device drivers
doing mmap and getting the size limits wrong.  In the process, it used
"known good" limits for the normal cases of mapping regular files and
block device drivers.

It turns out that the "s_maxbytes" limit was less "known good" than I
thought.  In particular, /proc doesn't set it, but exposes one regular
file to mmap: /proc/vmcore.  As a result, that file got limited to the
default MAX_INT s_maxbytes value.

This went unnoticed for a while, because apparently the only thing that
needs it is the s390 kernel zfcpdump, but there might be other tools
that use this too.

Vasily suggested just changing s_maxbytes for all of /proc, which isn't
wrong, but makes me nervous at this stage.  So instead, just make the
new mmap limit always be MAX_LFS_FILESIZE for regular files, which won't
affect anything else.  It wasn't the regular file case I was worried
about.

I'd really prefer for maxsize to have been per-inode, but that is not
how things are today.

Fixes: be83bbf80682 ("mmap: introduce sane default mmap limits")
Reported-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&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>mmap: introduce sane default mmap limits</title>
<updated>2018-06-13T14:16:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-11T16:52:01+00:00</published>
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commit be83bbf806822b1b89e0a0f23cd87cddc409e429 upstream.

The internal VM "mmap()" interfaces are based on the mmap target doing
everything using page indexes rather than byte offsets, because
traditionally (ie 32-bit) we had the situation that the byte offset
didn't fit in a register.  So while the mmap virtual address was limited
by the word size of the architecture, the backing store was not.

So we're basically passing "pgoff" around as a page index, in order to
be able to describe backing store locations that are much bigger than
the word size (think files larger than 4GB etc).

But while this all makes a ton of sense conceptually, we've been dogged
by various drivers that don't really understand this, and internally
work with byte offsets, and then try to work with the page index by
turning it into a byte offset with "pgoff &lt;&lt; PAGE_SHIFT".

Which obviously can overflow.

Adding the size of the mapping to it to get the byte offset of the end
of the backing store just exacerbates the problem, and if you then use
this overflow-prone value to check various limits of your device driver
mmap capability, you're just setting yourself up for problems.

The correct thing for drivers to do is to do their limit math in page
indices, the way the interface is designed.  Because the generic mmap
code _does_ test that the index doesn't overflow, since that's what the
mmap code really cares about.

HOWEVER.

Finding and fixing various random drivers is a sisyphean task, so let's
just see if we can just make the core mmap() code do the limiting for
us.  Realistically, the only "big" backing stores we need to care about
are regular files and block devices, both of which are known to do this
properly, and which have nice well-defined limits for how much data they
can access.

So let's special-case just those two known cases, and then limit other
random mmap users to a backing store that still fits in "unsigned long".
Realistically, that's not much of a limit at all on 64-bit, and on
32-bit architectures the only worry might be the GPU drivers, which can
have big physical address spaces.

To make it possible for drivers like that to say that they are 64-bit
clean, this patch does repurpose the "FMODE_UNSIGNED_OFFSET" bit in the
file flags to allow drivers to mark their file descriptors as safe in
the full 64-bit mmap address space.

[ The timing for doing this is less than optimal, and this should really
  go in a merge window. But realistically, this needs wide testing more
  than it needs anything else, and being main-line is the only way to do
  that.

  So the earlier the better, even if it's outside the proper development
  cycle        - Linus ]

Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Cc: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@redhat.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 be83bbf806822b1b89e0a0f23cd87cddc409e429 upstream.

The internal VM "mmap()" interfaces are based on the mmap target doing
everything using page indexes rather than byte offsets, because
traditionally (ie 32-bit) we had the situation that the byte offset
didn't fit in a register.  So while the mmap virtual address was limited
by the word size of the architecture, the backing store was not.

So we're basically passing "pgoff" around as a page index, in order to
be able to describe backing store locations that are much bigger than
the word size (think files larger than 4GB etc).

But while this all makes a ton of sense conceptually, we've been dogged
by various drivers that don't really understand this, and internally
work with byte offsets, and then try to work with the page index by
turning it into a byte offset with "pgoff &lt;&lt; PAGE_SHIFT".

Which obviously can overflow.

Adding the size of the mapping to it to get the byte offset of the end
of the backing store just exacerbates the problem, and if you then use
this overflow-prone value to check various limits of your device driver
mmap capability, you're just setting yourself up for problems.

The correct thing for drivers to do is to do their limit math in page
indices, the way the interface is designed.  Because the generic mmap
code _does_ test that the index doesn't overflow, since that's what the
mmap code really cares about.

HOWEVER.

Finding and fixing various random drivers is a sisyphean task, so let's
just see if we can just make the core mmap() code do the limiting for
us.  Realistically, the only "big" backing stores we need to care about
are regular files and block devices, both of which are known to do this
properly, and which have nice well-defined limits for how much data they
can access.

So let's special-case just those two known cases, and then limit other
random mmap users to a backing store that still fits in "unsigned long".
Realistically, that's not much of a limit at all on 64-bit, and on
32-bit architectures the only worry might be the GPU drivers, which can
have big physical address spaces.

To make it possible for drivers like that to say that they are 64-bit
clean, this patch does repurpose the "FMODE_UNSIGNED_OFFSET" bit in the
file flags to allow drivers to mark their file descriptors as safe in
the full 64-bit mmap address space.

[ The timing for doing this is less than optimal, and this should really
  go in a merge window. But realistically, this needs wide testing more
  than it needs anything else, and being main-line is the only way to do
  that.

  So the earlier the better, even if it's outside the proper development
  cycle        - Linus ]

Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Cc: Dave Airlie &lt;airlied@redhat.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: fix the NULL mapping case in __isolate_lru_page()</title>
<updated>2018-06-06T14:44:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-01T23:50:50+00:00</published>
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commit 145e1a71e090575c74969e3daa8136d1e5b99fc8 upstream.

George Boole would have noticed a slight error in 4.16 commit
69d763fc6d3a ("mm: pin address_space before dereferencing it while
isolating an LRU page").  Fix it, to match both the comment above it,
and the original behaviour.

Although anonymous pages are not marked PageDirty at first, we have an
old habit of calling SetPageDirty when a page is removed from swap
cache: so there's a category of ex-swap pages that are easily
migratable, but were inadvertently excluded from compaction's async
migration in 4.16.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1805302014001.12558@eggly.anvils
Fixes: 69d763fc6d3a ("mm: pin address_space before dereferencing it while isolating an LRU page")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Reported-by:  Ivan Kalvachev &lt;ikalvachev@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&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 145e1a71e090575c74969e3daa8136d1e5b99fc8 upstream.

George Boole would have noticed a slight error in 4.16 commit
69d763fc6d3a ("mm: pin address_space before dereferencing it while
isolating an LRU page").  Fix it, to match both the comment above it,
and the original behaviour.

Although anonymous pages are not marked PageDirty at first, we have an
old habit of calling SetPageDirty when a page is removed from swap
cache: so there's a category of ex-swap pages that are easily
migratable, but were inadvertently excluded from compaction's async
migration in 4.16.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1805302014001.12558@eggly.anvils
Fixes: 69d763fc6d3a ("mm: pin address_space before dereferencing it while isolating an LRU page")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Reported-by:  Ivan Kalvachev &lt;ikalvachev@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&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 races between address_space dereference and free in page_evicatable</title>
<updated>2018-05-30T05:50:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huang Ying</name>
<email>ying.huang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-05T23:23:20+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e92bb4dd9673945179b1fc738c9817dd91bfb629 ]

When page_mapping() is called and the mapping is dereferenced in
page_evicatable() through shrink_active_list(), it is possible for the
inode to be truncated and the embedded address space to be freed at the
same time.  This may lead to the following race.

CPU1                                                CPU2

truncate(inode)                                     shrink_active_list()
  ...                                                 page_evictable(page)
  truncate_inode_page(mapping, page);
    delete_from_page_cache(page)
      spin_lock_irqsave(&amp;mapping-&gt;tree_lock, flags);
        __delete_from_page_cache(page, NULL)
          page_cache_tree_delete(..)
            ...                                         mapping = page_mapping(page);
            page-&gt;mapping = NULL;
            ...
      spin_unlock_irqrestore(&amp;mapping-&gt;tree_lock, flags);
      page_cache_free_page(mapping, page)
        put_page(page)
          if (put_page_testzero(page)) -&gt; false
- inode now has no pages and can be freed including embedded address_space

                                                        mapping_unevictable(mapping)
							  test_bit(AS_UNEVICTABLE, &amp;mapping-&gt;flags);
- we've dereferenced mapping which is potentially already free.

Similar race exists between swap cache freeing and page_evicatable()
too.

The address_space in inode and swap cache will be freed after a RCU
grace period.  So the races are fixed via enclosing the page_mapping()
and address_space usage in rcu_read_lock/unlock().  Some comments are
added in code to make it clear what is protected by the RCU read lock.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180212081227.1940-1-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.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@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit e92bb4dd9673945179b1fc738c9817dd91bfb629 ]

When page_mapping() is called and the mapping is dereferenced in
page_evicatable() through shrink_active_list(), it is possible for the
inode to be truncated and the embedded address space to be freed at the
same time.  This may lead to the following race.

CPU1                                                CPU2

truncate(inode)                                     shrink_active_list()
  ...                                                 page_evictable(page)
  truncate_inode_page(mapping, page);
    delete_from_page_cache(page)
      spin_lock_irqsave(&amp;mapping-&gt;tree_lock, flags);
        __delete_from_page_cache(page, NULL)
          page_cache_tree_delete(..)
            ...                                         mapping = page_mapping(page);
            page-&gt;mapping = NULL;
            ...
      spin_unlock_irqrestore(&amp;mapping-&gt;tree_lock, flags);
      page_cache_free_page(mapping, page)
        put_page(page)
          if (put_page_testzero(page)) -&gt; false
- inode now has no pages and can be freed including embedded address_space

                                                        mapping_unevictable(mapping)
							  test_bit(AS_UNEVICTABLE, &amp;mapping-&gt;flags);
- we've dereferenced mapping which is potentially already free.

Similar race exists between swap cache freeing and page_evicatable()
too.

The address_space in inode and swap cache will be freed after a RCU
grace period.  So the races are fixed via enclosing the page_mapping()
and address_space usage in rcu_read_lock/unlock().  Some comments are
added in code to make it clear what is protected by the RCU read lock.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180212081227.1940-1-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.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@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm/ksm: fix interaction with THP</title>
<updated>2018-05-30T05:50:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Claudio Imbrenda</name>
<email>imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-05T23:25:41+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 77da2ba0648a4fd52e5ff97b8b2b8dd312aec4b0 ]

This patch fixes a corner case for KSM.  When two pages belong or
belonged to the same transparent hugepage, and they should be merged,
KSM fails to split the page, and therefore no merging happens.

This bug can be reproduced by:
* making sure ksm is running (in case disabling ksmtuned)
* enabling transparent hugepages
* allocating a THP-aligned 1-THP-sized buffer
  e.g. on amd64: posix_memalign(&amp;p, 1&lt;&lt;21, 1&lt;&lt;21)
* filling it with the same values
  e.g. memset(p, 42, 1&lt;&lt;21)
* performing madvise to make it mergeable
  e.g. madvise(p, 1&lt;&lt;21, MADV_MERGEABLE)
* waiting for KSM to perform a few scans

The expected outcome is that the all the pages get merged (1 shared and
the rest sharing); the actual outcome is that no pages get merged (1
unshared and the rest volatile)

The reason of this behaviour is that we increase the reference count
once for both pages we want to merge, but if they belong to the same
hugepage (or compound page), the reference counter used in both cases is
the one of the head of the compound page.  This means that
split_huge_page will find a value of the reference counter too high and
will fail.

This patch solves this problem by testing if the two pages to merge
belong to the same hugepage when attempting to merge them.  If so, the
hugepage is split safely.  This means that the hugepage is not split if
not necessary.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1521548069-24758-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda &lt;imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Co-authored-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.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@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 77da2ba0648a4fd52e5ff97b8b2b8dd312aec4b0 ]

This patch fixes a corner case for KSM.  When two pages belong or
belonged to the same transparent hugepage, and they should be merged,
KSM fails to split the page, and therefore no merging happens.

This bug can be reproduced by:
* making sure ksm is running (in case disabling ksmtuned)
* enabling transparent hugepages
* allocating a THP-aligned 1-THP-sized buffer
  e.g. on amd64: posix_memalign(&amp;p, 1&lt;&lt;21, 1&lt;&lt;21)
* filling it with the same values
  e.g. memset(p, 42, 1&lt;&lt;21)
* performing madvise to make it mergeable
  e.g. madvise(p, 1&lt;&lt;21, MADV_MERGEABLE)
* waiting for KSM to perform a few scans

The expected outcome is that the all the pages get merged (1 shared and
the rest sharing); the actual outcome is that no pages get merged (1
unshared and the rest volatile)

The reason of this behaviour is that we increase the reference count
once for both pages we want to merge, but if they belong to the same
hugepage (or compound page), the reference counter used in both cases is
the one of the head of the compound page.  This means that
split_huge_page will find a value of the reference counter too high and
will fail.

This patch solves this problem by testing if the two pages to merge
belong to the same hugepage when attempting to merge them.  If so, the
hugepage is split safely.  This means that the hugepage is not split if
not necessary.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1521548069-24758-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda &lt;imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Co-authored-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.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@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>swap: divide-by-zero when zero length swap file on ssd</title>
<updated>2018-05-30T05:50:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Abraham</name>
<email>tabraham@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-10T23:29:48+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a06ad633a37c64a0cd4c229fc605cee8725d376e ]

Calling swapon() on a zero length swap file on SSD can lead to a
divide-by-zero.

Although creating such files isn't possible with mkswap and they woud be
considered invalid, it would be better for the swapon code to be more
robust and handle this condition gracefully (return -EINVAL).
Especially since the fix is small and straightforward.

To help with wear leveling on SSD, the swapon syscall calculates a
random position in the swap file using modulo p-&gt;highest_bit, which is
set to maxpages - 1 in read_swap_header.

If the swap file is zero length, read_swap_header sets maxpages=1 and
last_page=0, resulting in p-&gt;highest_bit=0 and we divide-by-zero when we
modulo p-&gt;highest_bit in swapon syscall.

This can be prevented by having read_swap_header return zero if
last_page is zero.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5AC747C1020000A7001FA82C@prv-mh.provo.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Abraham &lt;tabraham@suse.com&gt;
Reported-by: &lt;Mark.Landis@Teradata.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.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: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit a06ad633a37c64a0cd4c229fc605cee8725d376e ]

Calling swapon() on a zero length swap file on SSD can lead to a
divide-by-zero.

Although creating such files isn't possible with mkswap and they woud be
considered invalid, it would be better for the swapon code to be more
robust and handle this condition gracefully (return -EINVAL).
Especially since the fix is small and straightforward.

To help with wear leveling on SSD, the swapon syscall calculates a
random position in the swap file using modulo p-&gt;highest_bit, which is
set to maxpages - 1 in read_swap_header.

If the swap file is zero length, read_swap_header sets maxpages=1 and
last_page=0, resulting in p-&gt;highest_bit=0 and we divide-by-zero when we
modulo p-&gt;highest_bit in swapon syscall.

This can be prevented by having read_swap_header return zero if
last_page is zero.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5AC747C1020000A7001FA82C@prv-mh.provo.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Abraham &lt;tabraham@suse.com&gt;
Reported-by: &lt;Mark.Landis@Teradata.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.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: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/kmemleak.c: wait for scan completion before disabling free</title>
<updated>2018-05-30T05:50:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vinayak Menon</name>
<email>vinmenon@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-28T23:01:16+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 914b6dfff790544d9b77dfd1723adb3745ec9700 ]

A crash is observed when kmemleak_scan accesses the object-&gt;pointer,
likely due to the following race.

  TASK A             TASK B                     TASK C
  kmemleak_write
   (with "scan" and
   NOT "scan=on")
  kmemleak_scan()
                     create_object
                     kmem_cache_alloc fails
                     kmemleak_disable
                     kmemleak_do_cleanup
                     kmemleak_free_enabled = 0
                                                kfree
                                                kmemleak_free bails out
                                                 (kmemleak_free_enabled is 0)
                                                slub frees object-&gt;pointer
  update_checksum
  crash - object-&gt;pointer
   freed (DEBUG_PAGEALLOC)

kmemleak_do_cleanup waits for the scan thread to complete, but not for
direct call to kmemleak_scan via kmemleak_write.  So add a wait for
kmemleak_scan completion before disabling kmemleak_free, and while at it
fix the comment on stop_scan_thread.

[vinmenon@codeaurora.org: fix stop_scan_thread comment]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522219972-22809-1-git-send-email-vinmenon@codeaurora.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522063429-18992-1-git-send-email-vinmenon@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon &lt;vinmenon@codeaurora.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@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@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 914b6dfff790544d9b77dfd1723adb3745ec9700 ]

A crash is observed when kmemleak_scan accesses the object-&gt;pointer,
likely due to the following race.

  TASK A             TASK B                     TASK C
  kmemleak_write
   (with "scan" and
   NOT "scan=on")
  kmemleak_scan()
                     create_object
                     kmem_cache_alloc fails
                     kmemleak_disable
                     kmemleak_do_cleanup
                     kmemleak_free_enabled = 0
                                                kfree
                                                kmemleak_free bails out
                                                 (kmemleak_free_enabled is 0)
                                                slub frees object-&gt;pointer
  update_checksum
  crash - object-&gt;pointer
   freed (DEBUG_PAGEALLOC)

kmemleak_do_cleanup waits for the scan thread to complete, but not for
direct call to kmemleak_scan via kmemleak_write.  So add a wait for
kmemleak_scan completion before disabling kmemleak_free, and while at it
fix the comment on stop_scan_thread.

[vinmenon@codeaurora.org: fix stop_scan_thread comment]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522219972-22809-1-git-send-email-vinmenon@codeaurora.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522063429-18992-1-git-send-email-vinmenon@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon &lt;vinmenon@codeaurora.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@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@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, thp: do not cause memcg oom for thp</title>
<updated>2018-05-30T05:50:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Rientjes</name>
<email>rientjes@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-22T23:17:45+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9d3c3354bb85bab4d865fe95039443f09a4c8394 ]

Commit 2516035499b9 ("mm, thp: remove __GFP_NORETRY from khugepaged and
madvised allocations") changed the page allocator to no longer detect
thp allocations based on __GFP_NORETRY.

It did not, however, modify the mem cgroup try_charge() path to avoid
oom kill for either khugepaged collapsing or thp faulting.  It is never
expected to oom kill a process to allocate a hugepage for thp; reclaim
is governed by the thp defrag mode and MADV_HUGEPAGE, but allocations
(and charging) should fallback instead of oom killing processes.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1803191409420.124411@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Fixes: 2516035499b9 ("mm, thp: remove __GFP_NORETRY from khugepaged and madvised allocations")
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: 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: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 9d3c3354bb85bab4d865fe95039443f09a4c8394 ]

Commit 2516035499b9 ("mm, thp: remove __GFP_NORETRY from khugepaged and
madvised allocations") changed the page allocator to no longer detect
thp allocations based on __GFP_NORETRY.

It did not, however, modify the mem cgroup try_charge() path to avoid
oom kill for either khugepaged collapsing or thp faulting.  It is never
expected to oom kill a process to allocate a hugepage for thp; reclaim
is governed by the thp defrag mode and MADV_HUGEPAGE, but allocations
(and charging) should fallback instead of oom killing processes.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1803191409420.124411@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Fixes: 2516035499b9 ("mm, thp: remove __GFP_NORETRY from khugepaged and madvised allocations")
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: 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: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/mempolicy.c: avoid use uninitialized preferred_node</title>
<updated>2018-05-30T05:50:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yisheng Xie</name>
<email>xieyisheng1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-22T23:17:02+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8970a63e965b43288c4f5f40efbc2bbf80de7f16 ]

Alexander reported a use of uninitialized memory in __mpol_equal(),
which is caused by incorrect use of preferred_node.

When mempolicy in mode MPOL_PREFERRED with flags MPOL_F_LOCAL, it uses
numa_node_id() instead of preferred_node, however, __mpol_equal() uses
preferred_node without checking whether it is MPOL_F_LOCAL or not.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: slight comment tweak]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4ebee1c2-57f6-bcb8-0e2d-1833d1ee0bb7@huawei.com
Fixes: fc36b8d3d819 ("mempolicy: use MPOL_F_LOCAL to Indicate Preferred Local Policy")
Signed-off-by: Yisheng Xie &lt;xieyisheng1@huawei.com&gt;
Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@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: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8970a63e965b43288c4f5f40efbc2bbf80de7f16 ]

Alexander reported a use of uninitialized memory in __mpol_equal(),
which is caused by incorrect use of preferred_node.

When mempolicy in mode MPOL_PREFERRED with flags MPOL_F_LOCAL, it uses
numa_node_id() instead of preferred_node, however, __mpol_equal() uses
preferred_node without checking whether it is MPOL_F_LOCAL or not.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: slight comment tweak]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4ebee1c2-57f6-bcb8-0e2d-1833d1ee0bb7@huawei.com
Fixes: fc36b8d3d819 ("mempolicy: use MPOL_F_LOCAL to Indicate Preferred Local Policy")
Signed-off-by: Yisheng Xie &lt;xieyisheng1@huawei.com&gt;
Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@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: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/fadvise: discard partial page if endbyte is also EOF</title>
<updated>2018-05-30T05:50:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>shidao.ytt</name>
<email>shidao.ytt@alibaba-inc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-01T00:19:55+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a7ab400d6fe73d0119fdc234e9982a6f80faea9f ]

During our recent testing with fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED), we find that if
given offset/length is not page-aligned, the last page will not be
discarded.  The tool we use is vmtouch (https://hoytech.com/vmtouch/),
we map a 10KB-sized file into memory and then try to run this tool to
evict the whole file mapping, but the last single page always remains
staying in the memory:

$./vmtouch -e test_10K
           Files: 1
     Directories: 0
   Evicted Pages: 3 (12K)
         Elapsed: 2.1e-05 seconds

$./vmtouch test_10K
           Files: 1
     Directories: 0
  Resident Pages: 1/3  4K/12K  33.3%
         Elapsed: 5.5e-05 seconds

However when we test with an older kernel, say 3.10, this problem is
gone.  So we wonder if this is a regression:

$./vmtouch -e test_10K
           Files: 1
     Directories: 0
   Evicted Pages: 3 (12K)
         Elapsed: 8.2e-05 seconds

$./vmtouch test_10K
           Files: 1
     Directories: 0
  Resident Pages: 0/3  0/12K  0%  &lt;-- partial page also discarded
         Elapsed: 5e-05 seconds

After digging a little bit into this problem, we find it seems not a
regression.  Not discarding partial page is likely to be on purpose
according to commit 441c228f817f ("mm: fadvise: document the
fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED) behaviour for partial pages") written by Mel
Gorman.  He explained why partial pages should be preserved instead of
being discarded when using fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED).

However, the interesting part is that the actual code did NOT work as
the same as it was described, the partial page was still discarded
anyway, due to a calculation mistake of `end_index' passed to
invalidate_mapping_pages().  This mistake has not been fixed until
recently, that's why we fail to reproduce our problem in old kernels.
The fix is done in commit 18aba41cbf ("mm/fadvise.c: do not discard
partial pages with POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED") by Oleg Drokin.

Back to the original testing, our problem becomes that there is a
special case that, if the page-unaligned `endbyte' is also the end of
file, it is not necessary at all to preserve the last partial page, as
we all know no one else will use the rest of it.  It should be safe
enough if we just discard the whole page.  So we add an EOF check in
this patch.

We also find a poosbile real world issue in mainline kernel.  Assume
such scenario: A userspace backup application want to backup a huge
amount of small files (&lt;4k) at once, the developer might (I guess) want
to use fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED) to save memory.  However, FADV_DONTNEED
won't really happen since the only page mapped is a partial page, and
kernel will preserve it.  Our patch also fixes this problem, since we
know the endbyte is EOF, so we discard it.

Here is a simple reproducer to reproduce and verify each scenario we
described above:

  test_fadvise.c
  ==============================
  #include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;
  #include &lt;sys/stat.h&gt;
  #include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
  #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
  #include &lt;string.h&gt;
  #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
  #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;

  int main(int argc, char **argv)
  {
  	int i, fd, ret, len;
  	struct stat buf;
  	void *addr;
  	unsigned char *vec;
  	char *strbuf;
  	ssize_t pagesize = getpagesize();
  	ssize_t filesize;

  	fd = open(argv[1], O_RDWR|O_CREAT, S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR);
  	if (fd &lt; 0)
  		return -1;
  	filesize = strtoul(argv[2], NULL, 10);

  	strbuf = malloc(filesize);
  	memset(strbuf, 42, filesize);
  	write(fd, strbuf, filesize);
  	free(strbuf);
  	fsync(fd);

  	len = (filesize + pagesize - 1) / pagesize;
  	printf("length of pages: %d\n", len);

  	addr = mmap(NULL, filesize, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
  	if (addr == MAP_FAILED)
  		return -1;

  	ret = posix_fadvise(fd, 0, filesize, POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED);
  	if (ret &lt; 0)
  		return -1;

  	vec = malloc(len);
  	ret = mincore(addr, filesize, (void *)vec);
  	if (ret &lt; 0)
  		return -1;

  	for (i = 0; i &lt; len; i++)
  		printf("pages[%d]: %x\n", i, vec[i] &amp; 0x1);

  	free(vec);
  	close(fd);

  	return 0;
  }
  ==============================

Test 1: running on kernel with commit 18aba41cbf reverted:

  [root@caspar ~]# uname -r
  4.15.0-rc6.revert+
  [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise file1 1024
  length of pages: 1
  pages[0]: 0    # &lt;-- partial page discarded
  [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise file2 8192
  length of pages: 2
  pages[0]: 0
  pages[1]: 0
  [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise file3 10240
  length of pages: 3
  pages[0]: 0
  pages[1]: 0
  pages[2]: 0    # &lt;-- partial page discarded

Test 2: running on mainline kernel:

  [root@caspar ~]# uname -r
  4.15.0-rc6+
  [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise test1 1024
  length of pages: 1
  pages[0]: 1    # &lt;-- partial and the only page not discarded
  [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise test2 8192
  length of pages: 2
  pages[0]: 0
  pages[1]: 0
  [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise test3 10240
  length of pages: 3
  pages[0]: 0
  pages[1]: 0
  pages[2]: 1    # &lt;-- partial page not discarded

Test 3: running on kernel with this patch:

  [root@caspar ~]# uname -r
  4.15.0-rc6.patched+
  [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise test1 1024
  length of pages: 1
  pages[0]: 0    # &lt;-- partial page and EOF, discarded
  [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise test2 8192
  length of pages: 2
  pages[0]: 0
  pages[1]: 0
  [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise test3 10240
  length of pages: 3
  pages[0]: 0
  pages[1]: 0
  pages[2]: 0    # &lt;-- partial page and EOF, discarded

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak code comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5222da9ee20e1695eaabb69f631f200d6e6b8876.1515132470.git.jinli.zjl@alibaba-inc.com
Signed-off-by: shidao.ytt &lt;shidao.ytt@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Caspar Zhang &lt;jinli.zjl@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oliver Yang &lt;zhiche.yy@alibaba-inc.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: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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During our recent testing with fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED), we find that if
given offset/length is not page-aligned, the last page will not be
discarded.  The tool we use is vmtouch (https://hoytech.com/vmtouch/),
we map a 10KB-sized file into memory and then try to run this tool to
evict the whole file mapping, but the last single page always remains
staying in the memory:

$./vmtouch -e test_10K
           Files: 1
     Directories: 0
   Evicted Pages: 3 (12K)
         Elapsed: 2.1e-05 seconds

$./vmtouch test_10K
           Files: 1
     Directories: 0
  Resident Pages: 1/3  4K/12K  33.3%
         Elapsed: 5.5e-05 seconds

However when we test with an older kernel, say 3.10, this problem is
gone.  So we wonder if this is a regression:

$./vmtouch -e test_10K
           Files: 1
     Directories: 0
   Evicted Pages: 3 (12K)
         Elapsed: 8.2e-05 seconds

$./vmtouch test_10K
           Files: 1
     Directories: 0
  Resident Pages: 0/3  0/12K  0%  &lt;-- partial page also discarded
         Elapsed: 5e-05 seconds

After digging a little bit into this problem, we find it seems not a
regression.  Not discarding partial page is likely to be on purpose
according to commit 441c228f817f ("mm: fadvise: document the
fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED) behaviour for partial pages") written by Mel
Gorman.  He explained why partial pages should be preserved instead of
being discarded when using fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED).

However, the interesting part is that the actual code did NOT work as
the same as it was described, the partial page was still discarded
anyway, due to a calculation mistake of `end_index' passed to
invalidate_mapping_pages().  This mistake has not been fixed until
recently, that's why we fail to reproduce our problem in old kernels.
The fix is done in commit 18aba41cbf ("mm/fadvise.c: do not discard
partial pages with POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED") by Oleg Drokin.

Back to the original testing, our problem becomes that there is a
special case that, if the page-unaligned `endbyte' is also the end of
file, it is not necessary at all to preserve the last partial page, as
we all know no one else will use the rest of it.  It should be safe
enough if we just discard the whole page.  So we add an EOF check in
this patch.

We also find a poosbile real world issue in mainline kernel.  Assume
such scenario: A userspace backup application want to backup a huge
amount of small files (&lt;4k) at once, the developer might (I guess) want
to use fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED) to save memory.  However, FADV_DONTNEED
won't really happen since the only page mapped is a partial page, and
kernel will preserve it.  Our patch also fixes this problem, since we
know the endbyte is EOF, so we discard it.

Here is a simple reproducer to reproduce and verify each scenario we
described above:

  test_fadvise.c
  ==============================
  #include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;
  #include &lt;sys/stat.h&gt;
  #include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
  #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
  #include &lt;string.h&gt;
  #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
  #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;

  int main(int argc, char **argv)
  {
  	int i, fd, ret, len;
  	struct stat buf;
  	void *addr;
  	unsigned char *vec;
  	char *strbuf;
  	ssize_t pagesize = getpagesize();
  	ssize_t filesize;

  	fd = open(argv[1], O_RDWR|O_CREAT, S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR);
  	if (fd &lt; 0)
  		return -1;
  	filesize = strtoul(argv[2], NULL, 10);

  	strbuf = malloc(filesize);
  	memset(strbuf, 42, filesize);
  	write(fd, strbuf, filesize);
  	free(strbuf);
  	fsync(fd);

  	len = (filesize + pagesize - 1) / pagesize;
  	printf("length of pages: %d\n", len);

  	addr = mmap(NULL, filesize, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
  	if (addr == MAP_FAILED)
  		return -1;

  	ret = posix_fadvise(fd, 0, filesize, POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED);
  	if (ret &lt; 0)
  		return -1;

  	vec = malloc(len);
  	ret = mincore(addr, filesize, (void *)vec);
  	if (ret &lt; 0)
  		return -1;

  	for (i = 0; i &lt; len; i++)
  		printf("pages[%d]: %x\n", i, vec[i] &amp; 0x1);

  	free(vec);
  	close(fd);

  	return 0;
  }
  ==============================

Test 1: running on kernel with commit 18aba41cbf reverted:

  [root@caspar ~]# uname -r
  4.15.0-rc6.revert+
  [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise file1 1024
  length of pages: 1
  pages[0]: 0    # &lt;-- partial page discarded
  [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise file2 8192
  length of pages: 2
  pages[0]: 0
  pages[1]: 0
  [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise file3 10240
  length of pages: 3
  pages[0]: 0
  pages[1]: 0
  pages[2]: 0    # &lt;-- partial page discarded

Test 2: running on mainline kernel:

  [root@caspar ~]# uname -r
  4.15.0-rc6+
  [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise test1 1024
  length of pages: 1
  pages[0]: 1    # &lt;-- partial and the only page not discarded
  [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise test2 8192
  length of pages: 2
  pages[0]: 0
  pages[1]: 0
  [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise test3 10240
  length of pages: 3
  pages[0]: 0
  pages[1]: 0
  pages[2]: 1    # &lt;-- partial page not discarded

Test 3: running on kernel with this patch:

  [root@caspar ~]# uname -r
  4.15.0-rc6.patched+
  [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise test1 1024
  length of pages: 1
  pages[0]: 0    # &lt;-- partial page and EOF, discarded
  [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise test2 8192
  length of pages: 2
  pages[0]: 0
  pages[1]: 0
  [root@caspar ~]# ./test_fadvise test3 10240
  length of pages: 3
  pages[0]: 0
  pages[1]: 0
  pages[2]: 0    # &lt;-- partial page and EOF, discarded

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak code comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5222da9ee20e1695eaabb69f631f200d6e6b8876.1515132470.git.jinli.zjl@alibaba-inc.com
Signed-off-by: shidao.ytt &lt;shidao.ytt@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Caspar Zhang &lt;jinli.zjl@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oliver Yang &lt;zhiche.yy@alibaba-inc.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: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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