[PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 178/305] mm: hugetlb: call huge_pte_alloc() only if ptep is null

From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Fri Jan 15 2016 - 19:44:53 EST


4.2.8-ckt2 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 0d777df5d8953293be090d9ab5a355db893e8357 upstream.

Currently at the beginning of hugetlb_fault(), we call huge_pte_offset()
and check whether the obtained *ptep is a migration/hwpoison entry or
not. And if not, then we get to call huge_pte_alloc(). This is racy
because the *ptep could turn into migration/hwpoison entry after the
huge_pte_offset() check. This race results in BUG_ON in
huge_pte_alloc().

We don't have to call huge_pte_alloc() when the huge_pte_offset()
returns non-NULL, so let's fix this bug with moving the code into else
block.

Note that the *ptep could turn into a migration/hwpoison entry after
this block, but that's not a problem because we have another
!pte_present check later (we never go into hugetlb_no_page() in that
case.)

Fixes: 290408d4a250 ("hugetlb: hugepage migration core")
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index f70850e..080ed4b 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3350,12 +3350,12 @@ int hugetlb_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
} else if (unlikely(is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned(entry)))
return VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE |
VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX(hstate_index(h));
+ } else {
+ ptep = huge_pte_alloc(mm, address, huge_page_size(h));
+ if (!ptep)
+ return VM_FAULT_OOM;
}

- ptep = huge_pte_alloc(mm, address, huge_page_size(h));
- if (!ptep)
- return VM_FAULT_OOM;
-
mapping = vma->vm_file->f_mapping;
idx = vma_hugecache_offset(h, vma, address);

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