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| author | David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> | 2014-03-03 15:38:18 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-03-04 07:55:47 -0800 |
| commit | 668f9abbd4334e6c29fa8acd71635c4f9101caa7 (patch) | |
| tree | 7060fc64f0164c4936b92f60569e63fcddfdfc51 /fs | |
| parent | aa15aa0e869cb218f68faff8f229fa6b6b5cdf08 (diff) | |
| download | linux-668f9abbd4334e6c29fa8acd71635c4f9101caa7.tar.bz2 | |
mm: close PageTail race
Commit bf6bddf1924e ("mm: introduce compaction and migration for
ballooned pages") introduces page_count(page) into memory compaction
which dereferences page->first_page if PageTail(page).
This results in a very rare NULL pointer dereference on the
aforementioned page_count(page). Indeed, anything that does
compound_head(), including page_count() is susceptible to racing with
prep_compound_page() and seeing a NULL or dangling page->first_page
pointer.
This patch uses Andrea's implementation of compound_trans_head() that
deals with such a race and makes it the default compound_head()
implementation. This includes a read memory barrier that ensures that
if PageTail(head) is true that we return a head page that is neither
NULL nor dangling. The patch then adds a store memory barrier to
prep_compound_page() to ensure page->first_page is set.
This is the safest way to ensure we see the head page that we are
expecting, PageTail(page) is already in the unlikely() path and the
memory barriers are unfortunately required.
Hugetlbfs is the exception, we don't enforce a store memory barrier
during init since no race is possible.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Holger Kiehl <Holger.Kiehl@dwd.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/page.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/page.c b/fs/proc/page.c index 02174a610315..e647c55275d9 100644 --- a/fs/proc/page.c +++ b/fs/proc/page.c @@ -121,9 +121,8 @@ u64 stable_page_flags(struct page *page) * just checks PG_head/PG_tail, so we need to check PageLRU/PageAnon * to make sure a given page is a thp, not a non-huge compound page. */ - else if (PageTransCompound(page) && - (PageLRU(compound_trans_head(page)) || - PageAnon(compound_trans_head(page)))) + else if (PageTransCompound(page) && (PageLRU(compound_head(page)) || + PageAnon(compound_head(page)))) u |= 1 << KPF_THP; /* |