FAILED: patch "[PATCH] khugepaged: khugepaged_test_exit() check mmget_still_valid()" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From bbe98f9cadff58cdd6a4acaeba0efa8565dabe65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 23:26:25 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] khugepaged: khugepaged_test_exit() check mmget_still_valid()

Move collapse_huge_page()'s mmget_still_valid() check into khugepaged_test_exit() itself. collapse_huge_page() is used for anon THP only, and earned its mmget_still_valid() check because it inserts a huge pmd entry in place of the page table's pmd entry; whereas collapse_file()'s retract_page_tables() or collapse_pte_mapped_thp() merely clears the page table's pmd entry. But core dumping without mmap lock must have been as open to mistaking a racily cleared pmd entry for a page table at physical page 0, as exit_mmap() was. And we certainly have no interest in mapping as a THP once dumping core.

index ac04b332a373..b52bd46ad146 100644
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ static void insert_to_mm_slots_hash(struct mm_struct *mm,
 
 static inline int khugepaged_test_exit(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
-	return atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 0;
+	return atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 0 || !mmget_still_valid(mm);
 }
 
 static bool hugepage_vma_check(struct vm_area_struct *vma,

@@ -1100,9 +1100,6 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
 	 * handled by the anon_vma lock + PG_lock.
 	 */
 	mmap_write_lock(mm);
-	result = SCAN_ANY_PROCESS;
-	if (!mmget_still_valid(mm))
-		goto out;
 	result = hugepage_vma_revalidate(mm, address, &vma);
 	if (result)
 		goto out;