[PATCH 3.11 56/66] mm: fix BUG in __split_huge_page_pmd

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

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

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From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 750e8165f5e87b6a142be953640eabb13a9d350a upstream.

Occasionally we hit the BUG_ON(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) at the end of
__split_huge_page_pmd(): seen when doing madvise(,,MADV_DONTNEED).

It's invalid: we don't always have down_write of mmap_sem there: a racing
do_huge_pmd_wp_page() might have copied-on-write to another huge page
before our split_huge_page() got the anon_vma lock.

Forget the BUG_ON, just go back and try again if this happens.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 mm/huge_memory.c |   10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2709,6 +2709,7 @@ void __split_huge_page_pmd(struct vm_are
 
 	mmun_start = haddr;
 	mmun_end   = haddr + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE;
+again:
 	mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(mm, mmun_start, mmun_end);
 	spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
 	if (unlikely(!pmd_trans_huge(*pmd))) {
@@ -2731,7 +2732,14 @@ void __split_huge_page_pmd(struct vm_are
 	split_huge_page(page);
 
 	put_page(page);
-	BUG_ON(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd));
+
+	/*
+	 * We don't always have down_write of mmap_sem here: a racing
+	 * do_huge_pmd_wp_page() might have copied-on-write to another
+	 * huge page before our split_huge_page() got the anon_vma lock.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)))
+		goto again;
 }
 
 void split_huge_page_pmd_mm(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,


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