From 3fe89b3e2a7bbf3e97657104b9b33a9d81b950b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Leon Yu Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 15:55:11 -0700 Subject: mm: fix anon_vma->degree underflow in anon_vma endless growing prevention I have constantly stumbled upon "kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:399!" after upgrading to 3.19 and had no luck with 4.0-rc1 neither. So, after looking into new logic introduced by commit 7a3ef208e662 ("mm: prevent endless growth of anon_vma hierarchy"), I found chances are that unlink_anon_vmas() is called without incrementing dst->anon_vma->degree in anon_vma_clone() due to allocation failure. If dst->anon_vma is not NULL in error path, its degree will be incorrectly decremented in unlink_anon_vmas() and eventually underflow when exiting as a result of another call to unlink_anon_vmas(). That's how "kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:399!" is triggered for me. This patch fixes the underflow by dropping dst->anon_vma when allocation fails. It's safe to do so regardless of original value of dst->anon_vma because dst->anon_vma doesn't have valid meaning if anon_vma_clone() fails. Besides, callers don't care dst->anon_vma in such case neither. Also suggested by Michal Hocko, we can clean up vma_adjust() a bit as anon_vma_clone() now does the work. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment] Fixes: 7a3ef208e662 ("mm: prevent endless growth of anon_vma hierarchy") Signed-off-by: Leon Yu Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Rik van Riel Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/mmap.c | 4 +--- mm/rmap.c | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index da9990acc08b..9ec50a368634 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -774,10 +774,8 @@ again: remove_next = 1 + (end > next->vm_end); importer->anon_vma = exporter->anon_vma; error = anon_vma_clone(importer, exporter); - if (error) { - importer->anon_vma = NULL; + if (error) return error; - } } } diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c index 5e3e09081164..c161a14b6a8f 100644 --- a/mm/rmap.c +++ b/mm/rmap.c @@ -287,6 +287,13 @@ int anon_vma_clone(struct vm_area_struct *dst, struct vm_area_struct *src) return 0; enomem_failure: + /* + * dst->anon_vma is dropped here otherwise its degree can be incorrectly + * decremented in unlink_anon_vmas(). + * We can safely do this because callers of anon_vma_clone() don't care + * about dst->anon_vma if anon_vma_clone() failed. + */ + dst->anon_vma = NULL; unlink_anon_vmas(dst); return -ENOMEM; } -- cgit v1.2.3