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Hugh Dickins 2406c45db3 khugepaged: retract_page_tables() remember to test exit 
commit 18e77600f7 upstream.

Only once have I seen this scenario (and forgot even to notice what forced
the eventual crash): a sequence of "BUG: Bad page map" alerts from
vm_normal_page(), from zap_pte_range() servicing exit_mmap();
pmd:00000000, pte values corresponding to data in physical page 0.

The pte mappings being zapped in this case were supposed to be from a huge
page of ext4 text (but could as well have been shmem): my belief is that
it was racing with collapse_file()'s retract_page_tables(), found *pmd
pointing to a page table, locked it, but *pmd had become 0 by the time
start_pte was decided.

In most cases, that possibility is excluded by holding mmap lock; but
exit_mmap() proceeds without mmap lock.  Most of what's run by khugepaged
checks khugepaged_test_exit() after acquiring mmap lock:
khugepaged_collapse_pte_mapped_thps() and hugepage_vma_revalidate() do so,
for example.  But retract_page_tables() did not: fix that.

The fix is for retract_page_tables() to check khugepaged_test_exit(),
after acquiring mmap lock, before doing anything to the page table.
Getting the mmap lock serializes with __mmput(), which briefly takes and
drops it in __khugepaged_exit(); then the khugepaged_test_exit() check on
mm_users makes sure we don't touch the page table once exit_mmap() might
reach it, since exit_mmap() will be proceeding without mmap lock, not
expecting anyone to be racing with it.

Fixes: f3f0e1d215 ("khugepaged: add support of collapse for tmpfs/shmem pages")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[4.8+]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.2008021215400.27773@eggly.anvils
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-08-21 11:05:39 +02:00
arch sh: landisk: Add missing initialization of sh_io_port_base 2020-08-21 11:05:39 +02:00
block block: release bip in a right way in error path 2020-07-16 08:17:23 +02:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - fix use-after-free in af_alg_accept() due to bh_lock_sock() 2020-07-09 09:37:10 +02:00
Documentation dt-bindings: iio: io-channel-mux: Fix compatible string in example code 2020-08-21 11:05:30 +02:00
drivers mfd: dln2: Run event handler loop under spinlock 2020-08-21 11:05:38 +02:00
firmware Fix built-in early-load Intel microcode alignment 2020-01-23 08:21:29 +01:00
fs fs/ufs: avoid potential u32 multiplication overflow 2020-08-21 11:05:38 +02:00
include iommu/vt-d: Enforce PASID devTLB field mask 2020-08-21 11:05:36 +02:00
init printk: queue wake_up_klogd irq_work only if per-CPU areas are ready 2020-07-22 09:32:13 +02:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index 2020-05-20 08:18:40 +02:00
kernel module: Correctly truncate sysfs sections output 2020-08-21 11:05:34 +02:00
lib test_kmod: avoid potential double free in trigger_config_run_type() 2020-08-21 11:05:38 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Remove CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text 2018-10-18 11:28:50 +02:00
mm khugepaged: retract_page_tables() remember to test exit 2020-08-21 11:05:39 +02:00
net mac80211: fix misplaced while instead of if 2020-08-21 11:05:32 +02:00
samples samples: bpf: Fix build error 2020-06-03 08:19:31 +02:00
scripts scripts/gdb: fix lx-symbols 'gdb.error' while loading modules 2020-07-29 10:16:51 +02:00
security Smack: prevent underflow in smk_set_cipso() 2020-08-19 08:14:59 +02:00
sound ALSA: echoaudio: Fix potential Oops in snd_echo_resume() 2020-08-21 11:05:38 +02:00
tools tools build feature: Quote CC and CXX for their arguments 2020-08-21 11:05:39 +02:00
usr initramfs: restore default compression behavior 2020-04-13 10:44:59 +02:00
virt KVM: arm64: Synchronize sysreg state on injecting an AArch32 exception 2020-06-22 09:05:09 +02:00
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MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Update drm/i915 bug filing URL 2020-02-28 16:38:49 +01:00
Makefile Linux 4.19.140 2020-08-19 08:15:08 +02:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.