kernel/linux.git/mm, branch v4.4.142

mm, page_alloc: do not break __GFP_THISNODE by zonelist reset

2018-07-11T14:03:51+00:00

commit 7810e6781e0fcbca78b91cf65053f895bf59e85f upstream. In __alloc_pages_slowpath() we reset zonelist and preferred_zoneref for allocations that can ignore memory policies. The zonelist is obtained from current CPU's node. This is a problem for __GFP_THISNODE allocations that want to allocate on a different node, e.g. because the allocating thread has been migrated to a different CPU. This has been observed to break SLAB in our 4.4-based kernel, because there it relies on __GFP_THISNODE working as intended. If a slab page is put on wrong node's list, then further list manipulations may corrupt the list because page_to_nid() is used to determine which node's list_lock should be locked and thus we may take a wrong lock and race. Current SLAB implementation seems to be immune by luck thanks to commit 511e3a058812 ("mm/slab: make cache_grow() handle the page allocated on arbitrary node") but there may be others assuming that __GFP_THISNODE works as promised. We can fix it by simply removing the zonelist reset completely. There is actually no reason to reset it, because memory policies and cpusets don't affect the zonelist choice in the first place. This was different when commit 183f6371aac2 ("mm: ignore mempolicies when using ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK") introduced the code, as mempolicies provided their own restricted zonelists. We might consider this for 4.17 although I don't know if there's anything currently broken. SLAB is currently not affected, but in kernels older than 4.7 that don't yet have 511e3a058812 ("mm/slab: make cache_grow() handle the page allocated on arbitrary node") it is. That's at least 4.4 LTS. Older ones I'll have to check. So stable backports should be more important, but will have to be reviewed carefully, as the code went through many changes. BTW I think that also the ac->preferred_zoneref reset is currently useless if we don't also reset ac->nodemask from a mempolicy to NULL first (which we probably should for the OOM victims etc?), but I would leave that for a separate patch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180525130853.13915-1-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Fixes: 183f6371aac2 ("mm: ignore mempolicies when using ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK") Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: hugetlb: yield when prepping struct pages

2018-07-11T14:03:48+00:00

commit 520495fe96d74e05db585fc748351e0504d8f40d upstream. When booting with very large numbers of gigantic (i.e. 1G) pages, the operations in the loop of gather_bootmem_prealloc, and specifically prep_compound_gigantic_page, takes a very long time, and can cause a softlockup if enough pages are requested at boot. For example booting with 3844 1G pages requires prepping (set_compound_head, init the count) over 1 billion 4K tail pages, which takes considerable time. Add a cond_resched() to the outer loop in gather_bootmem_prealloc() to prevent this lockup. Tested: Booted with softlockup_panic=1 hugepagesz=1G hugepages=3844 and no softlockup is reported, and the hugepages are reported as successfully setup. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180627214447.260804-1-cannonmatthews@google.com Signed-off-by: Cannon Matthews Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla Cc: Peter Feiner Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mmap: relax file size limit for regular files

2018-06-13T14:15:27+00:00

commit 423913ad4ae5b3e8fb8983f70969fb522261ba26 upstream. Commit be83bbf80682 ("mmap: introduce sane default mmap limits") was introduced to catch problems in various ad-hoc character device drivers doing mmap and getting the size limits wrong. In the process, it used "known good" limits for the normal cases of mapping regular files and block device drivers. It turns out that the "s_maxbytes" limit was less "known good" than I thought. In particular, /proc doesn't set it, but exposes one regular file to mmap: /proc/vmcore. As a result, that file got limited to the default MAX_INT s_maxbytes value. This went unnoticed for a while, because apparently the only thing that needs it is the s390 kernel zfcpdump, but there might be other tools that use this too. Vasily suggested just changing s_maxbytes for all of /proc, which isn't wrong, but makes me nervous at this stage. So instead, just make the new mmap limit always be MAX_LFS_FILESIZE for regular files, which won't affect anything else. It wasn't the regular file case I was worried about. I'd really prefer for maxsize to have been per-inode, but that is not how things are today. Fixes: be83bbf80682 ("mmap: introduce sane default mmap limits") Reported-by: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mmap: introduce sane default mmap limits

2018-06-13T14:15:27+00:00

commit be83bbf806822b1b89e0a0f23cd87cddc409e429 upstream. The internal VM "mmap()" interfaces are based on the mmap target doing everything using page indexes rather than byte offsets, because traditionally (ie 32-bit) we had the situation that the byte offset didn't fit in a register. So while the mmap virtual address was limited by the word size of the architecture, the backing store was not. So we're basically passing "pgoff" around as a page index, in order to be able to describe backing store locations that are much bigger than the word size (think files larger than 4GB etc). But while this all makes a ton of sense conceptually, we've been dogged by various drivers that don't really understand this, and internally work with byte offsets, and then try to work with the page index by turning it into a byte offset with "pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT". Which obviously can overflow. Adding the size of the mapping to it to get the byte offset of the end of the backing store just exacerbates the problem, and if you then use this overflow-prone value to check various limits of your device driver mmap capability, you're just setting yourself up for problems. The correct thing for drivers to do is to do their limit math in page indices, the way the interface is designed. Because the generic mmap code _does_ test that the index doesn't overflow, since that's what the mmap code really cares about. HOWEVER. Finding and fixing various random drivers is a sisyphean task, so let's just see if we can just make the core mmap() code do the limiting for us. Realistically, the only "big" backing stores we need to care about are regular files and block devices, both of which are known to do this properly, and which have nice well-defined limits for how much data they can access. So let's special-case just those two known cases, and then limit other random mmap users to a backing store that still fits in "unsigned long". Realistically, that's not much of a limit at all on 64-bit, and on 32-bit architectures the only worry might be the GPU drivers, which can have big physical address spaces. To make it possible for drivers like that to say that they are 64-bit clean, this patch does repurpose the "FMODE_UNSIGNED_OFFSET" bit in the file flags to allow drivers to mark their file descriptors as safe in the full 64-bit mmap address space. [ The timing for doing this is less than optimal, and this should really go in a merge window. But realistically, this needs wide testing more than it needs anything else, and being main-line is the only way to do that. So the earlier the better, even if it's outside the proper development cycle - Linus ] Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Dan Carpenter Cc: Al Viro Cc: Willy Tarreau Cc: Dave Airlie Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: fix the NULL mapping case in __isolate_lru_page()

2018-06-06T14:46:23+00:00

commit 145e1a71e090575c74969e3daa8136d1e5b99fc8 upstream. George Boole would have noticed a slight error in 4.16 commit 69d763fc6d3a ("mm: pin address_space before dereferencing it while isolating an LRU page"). Fix it, to match both the comment above it, and the original behaviour. Although anonymous pages are not marked PageDirty at first, we have an old habit of calling SetPageDirty when a page is removed from swap cache: so there's a category of ex-swap pages that are easily migratable, but were inadvertently excluded from compaction's async migration in 4.16. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1805302014001.12558@eggly.anvils Fixes: 69d763fc6d3a ("mm: pin address_space before dereferencing it while isolating an LRU page") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Acked-by: Minchan Kim Acked-by: Mel Gorman Reported-by: Ivan Kalvachev Cc: "Huang, Ying" Cc: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: fix races between address_space dereference and free in page_evicatable

2018-05-30T05:49:08+00:00

[ Upstream commit e92bb4dd9673945179b1fc738c9817dd91bfb629 ] When page_mapping() is called and the mapping is dereferenced in page_evicatable() through shrink_active_list(), it is possible for the inode to be truncated and the embedded address space to be freed at the same time. This may lead to the following race. CPU1 CPU2 truncate(inode) shrink_active_list() ... page_evictable(page) truncate_inode_page(mapping, page); delete_from_page_cache(page) spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags); __delete_from_page_cache(page, NULL) page_cache_tree_delete(..) ... mapping = page_mapping(page); page->mapping = NULL; ... spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags); page_cache_free_page(mapping, page) put_page(page) if (put_page_testzero(page)) -> false - inode now has no pages and can be freed including embedded address_space mapping_unevictable(mapping) test_bit(AS_UNEVICTABLE, &mapping->flags); - we've dereferenced mapping which is potentially already free. Similar race exists between swap cache freeing and page_evicatable() too. The address_space in inode and swap cache will be freed after a RCU grace period. So the races are fixed via enclosing the page_mapping() and address_space usage in rcu_read_lock/unlock(). Some comments are added in code to make it clear what is protected by the RCU read lock. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180212081227.1940-1-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: "Huang, Ying" Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/ksm: fix interaction with THP

2018-05-30T05:49:08+00:00

[ Upstream commit 77da2ba0648a4fd52e5ff97b8b2b8dd312aec4b0 ] This patch fixes a corner case for KSM. When two pages belong or belonged to the same transparent hugepage, and they should be merged, KSM fails to split the page, and therefore no merging happens. This bug can be reproduced by: * making sure ksm is running (in case disabling ksmtuned) * enabling transparent hugepages * allocating a THP-aligned 1-THP-sized buffer e.g. on amd64: posix_memalign(&p, 1<<21, 1<<21) * filling it with the same values e.g. memset(p, 42, 1<<21) * performing madvise to make it mergeable e.g. madvise(p, 1<<21, MADV_MERGEABLE) * waiting for KSM to perform a few scans The expected outcome is that the all the pages get merged (1 shared and the rest sharing); the actual outcome is that no pages get merged (1 unshared and the rest volatile) The reason of this behaviour is that we increase the reference count once for both pages we want to merge, but if they belong to the same hugepage (or compound page), the reference counter used in both cases is the one of the head of the compound page. This means that split_huge_page will find a value of the reference counter too high and will fail. This patch solves this problem by testing if the two pages to merge belong to the same hugepage when attempting to merge them. If so, the hugepage is split safely. This means that the hugepage is not split if not necessary. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1521548069-24758-1-git-send-email-imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda Co-authored-by: Gerald Schaefer Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Christian Borntraeger Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

swap: divide-by-zero when zero length swap file on ssd

2018-05-30T05:49:07+00:00

[ Upstream commit a06ad633a37c64a0cd4c229fc605cee8725d376e ] Calling swapon() on a zero length swap file on SSD can lead to a divide-by-zero. Although creating such files isn't possible with mkswap and they woud be considered invalid, it would be better for the swapon code to be more robust and handle this condition gracefully (return -EINVAL). Especially since the fix is small and straightforward. To help with wear leveling on SSD, the swapon syscall calculates a random position in the swap file using modulo p->highest_bit, which is set to maxpages - 1 in read_swap_header. If the swap file is zero length, read_swap_header sets maxpages=1 and last_page=0, resulting in p->highest_bit=0 and we divide-by-zero when we modulo p->highest_bit in swapon syscall. This can be prevented by having read_swap_header return zero if last_page is zero. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5AC747C1020000A7001FA82C@prv-mh.provo.novell.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Abraham Reported-by: Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/kmemleak.c: wait for scan completion before disabling free

2018-05-30T05:49:06+00:00

[ Upstream commit 914b6dfff790544d9b77dfd1723adb3745ec9700 ] A crash is observed when kmemleak_scan accesses the object->pointer, likely due to the following race. TASK A TASK B TASK C kmemleak_write (with "scan" and NOT "scan=on") kmemleak_scan() create_object kmem_cache_alloc fails kmemleak_disable kmemleak_do_cleanup kmemleak_free_enabled = 0 kfree kmemleak_free bails out (kmemleak_free_enabled is 0) slub frees object->pointer update_checksum crash - object->pointer freed (DEBUG_PAGEALLOC) kmemleak_do_cleanup waits for the scan thread to complete, but not for direct call to kmemleak_scan via kmemleak_write. So add a wait for kmemleak_scan completion before disabling kmemleak_free, and while at it fix the comment on stop_scan_thread. [vinmenon@codeaurora.org: fix stop_scan_thread comment] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522219972-22809-1-git-send-email-vinmenon@codeaurora.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522063429-18992-1-git-send-email-vinmenon@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/mempolicy.c: avoid use uninitialized preferred_node

2018-05-30T05:49:05+00:00

[ Upstream commit 8970a63e965b43288c4f5f40efbc2bbf80de7f16 ] Alexander reported a use of uninitialized memory in __mpol_equal(), which is caused by incorrect use of preferred_node. When mempolicy in mode MPOL_PREFERRED with flags MPOL_F_LOCAL, it uses numa_node_id() instead of preferred_node, however, __mpol_equal() uses preferred_node without checking whether it is MPOL_F_LOCAL or not. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: slight comment tweak] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4ebee1c2-57f6-bcb8-0e2d-1833d1ee0bb7@huawei.com Fixes: fc36b8d3d819 ("mempolicy: use MPOL_F_LOCAL to Indicate Preferred Local Policy") Signed-off-by: Yisheng Xie Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko Tested-by: Alexander Potapenko Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman