[12/98] hugetlb: fix infinite loop in get_futex_key() when backed by huge pages

[Greg KH]

2.6.32-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 23be7468e8802a2ac1de6ee3eecb3ec7f14dc703 upstream.

If a futex key happens to be located within a huge page mapped
MAP_PRIVATE, get_futex_key() can go into an infinite loop waiting for a
page->mapping that will never exist.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552257 for more details
about the problem.

This patch makes page->mapping a poisoned value that includes
PAGE_MAPPING_ANON mapped MAP_PRIVATE.  This is enough for futex to
continue but because of PAGE_MAPPING_ANON, the poisoned value is not
dereferenced or used by futex.  No other part of the VM should be
dereferencing the page->mapping of a hugetlbfs page as its page cache is
not on the LRU.

This patch fixes the problem with the test case described in the bugzilla.

[akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: mel cant spel]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <darren@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
 include/linux/poison.h |    9 +++++++++
 mm/hugetlb.c           |    5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/include/linux/poison.h
+++ b/include/linux/poison.h
@@ -48,6 +48,15 @@
 #define POISON_FREE	0x6b	/* for use-after-free poisoning */
 #define	POISON_END	0xa5	/* end-byte of poisoning */
 
+/********** mm/hugetlb.c **********/
+/*
+ * Private mappings of hugetlb pages use this poisoned value for
+ * page->mapping. The core VM should not be doing anything with this mapping
+ * but futex requires the existence of some page->mapping value even though it
+ * is unused if PAGE_MAPPING_ANON is set.
+ */
+#define HUGETLB_POISON	((void *)(0x00300300 + POISON_POINTER_DELTA + PAGE_MAPPING_ANON))
+
 /********** arch/$ARCH/mm/init.c **********/
 #define POISON_FREE_INITMEM	0xcc
 
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -545,6 +545,7 @@ static void free_huge_page(struct page *
 
 	mapping = (struct address_space *) page_private(page);
 	set_page_private(page, 0);
+	page->mapping = NULL;
 	BUG_ON(page_count(page));
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&page->lru);
 
@@ -2095,8 +2096,10 @@ retry:
 			spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
 			inode->i_blocks += blocks_per_huge_page(h);
 			spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
-		} else
+		} else {
 			lock_page(page);
+			page->mapping = HUGETLB_POISON;
+		}
 	}
 
 	/*


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