Patch "thp: use is_zero_pfn() only after pte_present() check" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
thp: use is_zero_pfn() only after pte_present() check
to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
thp-use-is_zero_pfn-only-after-pte_present-check.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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47aee4d8e314384807e98b67ade07f6da476aa75Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 13:32:19 -0700
Subject: thp: use is_zero_pfn() only after pte_present() check
From: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
commit 47aee4d8e314384807e98b67ade07f6da476aa75 upstream.
Use is_zero_pfn() on pteval only after pte_present() check on pteval (It might be better idea to introduce is_zero_pte() which checks pte_present() first).
Otherwise when working on a swap or migration entry and if pte_pfn's result is equal to zero_pfn by chance, we lose user's data in __collapse_huge_page_copy(). So if you're unlucky, the application segfaults and finally you could see below message on exit:
BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ffff88007f099300 idx:2 val:3
--- mm/huge_memory.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
mm/huge_memory.c +2 -1
@@ -2137,7 +2137,8 @@ static int __collapse_huge_page_isolate(for (_pte = pte; _pte < pte+HPAGE_PMD_NR ; _pte++, address +=PAGE_SIZE ) {pte_t pteval = *_pte; -if (pte_none (pteval) ||is_zero_pfn (pte_pfn (pteval))) { +if (pte_none (pteval) || (pte_present (pteval) && +is_zero_pfn (pte_pfn (pteval)))) {if (++none_or_zero <= khugepaged_max_ptes_none)continue ;else
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.1/thp-use-is_zero_pfn-only-after-pte_present-check.patch