[PATCH] read_zero_pagealigned() locking fix

Ramiro Voicu hits the BUG_ON(!pte_none(*pte)) in zeromap_pte_range: kernel
bugzilla 7645.  Right: read_zero_pagealigned uses down_read of mmap_sem,
but another thread's racing read of /dev/zero, or a normal fault, can
easily set that pte again, in between zap_page_range and zeromap_page_range
getting there.  It's been wrong ever since 2.4.3.

The simple fix is to use down_write instead, but that would serialize reads
of /dev/zero more than at present: perhaps some app would be badly
affected.  So instead let zeromap_page_range return the error instead of
BUG_ON, and read_zero_pagealigned break to the slower clear_user loop in
that case - there's no need to optimize for it.

Use -EEXIST for when a pte is found: BUG_ON in mmap_zero (the other user of
zeromap_page_range), though it really isn't interesting there.  And since
mmap_zero wants -EAGAIN for out-of-memory, the zeromaps better return that
than -ENOMEM.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Ramiro Voicu: <Ramiro.Voicu@cern.ch>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 4198df0dff1c..bf6100236e62 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1110,23 +1110,29 @@ static int zeromap_pte_range(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
 {
 	pte_t *pte;
 	spinlock_t *ptl;
+	int err = 0;
 
 	pte = pte_alloc_map_lock(mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
 	if (!pte)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		return -EAGAIN;
 	arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode();
 	do {
 		struct page *page = ZERO_PAGE(addr);
 		pte_t zero_pte = pte_wrprotect(mk_pte(page, prot));
+
+		if (unlikely(!pte_none(*pte))) {
+			err = -EEXIST;
+			pte++;
+			break;
+		}
 		page_cache_get(page);
 		page_add_file_rmap(page);
 		inc_mm_counter(mm, file_rss);
-		BUG_ON(!pte_none(*pte));
 		set_pte_at(mm, addr, pte, zero_pte);
 	} while (pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end);
 	arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
 	pte_unmap_unlock(pte - 1, ptl);
-	return 0;
+	return err;
 }
 
 static inline int zeromap_pmd_range(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pud,
@@ -1134,16 +1140,18 @@ static inline int zeromap_pmd_range(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pud,
 {
 	pmd_t *pmd;
 	unsigned long next;
+	int err;
 
 	pmd = pmd_alloc(mm, pud, addr);
 	if (!pmd)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		return -EAGAIN;
 	do {
 		next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
-		if (zeromap_pte_range(mm, pmd, addr, next, prot))
-			return -ENOMEM;
+		err = zeromap_pte_range(mm, pmd, addr, next, prot);
+		if (err)
+			break;
 	} while (pmd++, addr = next, addr != end);
-	return 0;
+	return err;
 }
 
 static inline int zeromap_pud_range(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd,
@@ -1151,16 +1159,18 @@ static inline int zeromap_pud_range(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd,
 {
 	pud_t *pud;
 	unsigned long next;
+	int err;
 
 	pud = pud_alloc(mm, pgd, addr);
 	if (!pud)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		return -EAGAIN;
 	do {
 		next = pud_addr_end(addr, end);
-		if (zeromap_pmd_range(mm, pud, addr, next, prot))
-			return -ENOMEM;
+		err = zeromap_pmd_range(mm, pud, addr, next, prot);
+		if (err)
+			break;
 	} while (pud++, addr = next, addr != end);
-	return 0;
+	return err;
 }
 
 int zeromap_page_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,