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mm, thp: close race between mremap() and split_huge_page()
authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Fri, 9 May 2014 22:37:00 +0000 (15:37 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 7 Jun 2014 17:28:10 +0000 (10:28 -0700)
commit2bcd64e5aaa27654473ba5fbda7e6e057aa75cc8
tree4bbc77ba6d64d0603a56076c40275478c7089a4d
parent6a12f896ce0aa2e88af62b5282b2a40488a5283e
mm, thp: close race between mremap() and split_huge_page()

commit dd18dbc2d42af75fffa60c77e0f02220bc329829 upstream.

It's critical for split_huge_page() (and migration) to catch and freeze
all PMDs on rmap walk.  It gets tricky if there's concurrent fork() or
mremap() since usually we copy/move page table entries on dup_mm() or
move_page_tables() without rmap lock taken.  To get it work we rely on
rmap walk order to not miss any entry.  We expect to see destination VMA
after source one to work correctly.

But after switching rmap implementation to interval tree it's not always
possible to preserve expected walk order.

It works fine for dup_mm() since new VMA has the same vma_start_pgoff()
/ vma_last_pgoff() and explicitly insert dst VMA after src one with
vma_interval_tree_insert_after().

But on move_vma() destination VMA can be merged into adjacent one and as
result shifted left in interval tree.  Fortunately, we can detect the
situation and prevent race with rmap walk by moving page table entries
under rmap lock.  See commit 38a76013ad80.

Problem is that we miss the lock when we move transhuge PMD.  Most
likely this bug caused the crash[1].

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/96473

Fixes: 108d6642ad81 ("mm anon rmap: remove anon_vma_moveto_tail")
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/mremap.c