FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm: mempolicy: fix potential pte_unmap_unlock pte error" 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 3f08842098e842c51e3b97d0dcdebf810b32558e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shijie Luo <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 17:07:40 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] mm: mempolicy: fix potential pte_unmap_unlock pte error

When flags in queue_pages_pte_range don't have MPOL_MF_MOVE or MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL bits, code breaks and passing origin pte - 1 to pte_unmap_unlock seems like not a good idea.

queue_pages_pte_range can run in MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL mode which doesn't migrate misplaced pages but returns with EIO when encountering such a page. Since commit a7f40cfe3b7a ("mm: mempolicy: make mbind() return -EIO when MPOL_MF_STRICT is specified") and early break on the first pte in the range results in pte_unmap_unlock on an underflow pte. This can lead to lockups later on when somebody tries to lock the pte resp. page_table_lock again..

index 3fde772ef5ef..3ca4898f3f24 100644
@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ static int queue_pages_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
 	unsigned long flags = qp->flags;
 	int ret;
 	bool has_unmovable = false;
-	pte_t *pte;
+	pte_t *pte, *mapped_pte;
 	spinlock_t *ptl;
 
 	ptl = pmd_trans_huge_lock(pmd, vma);

@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ static int queue_pages_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
 	if (pmd_trans_unstable(pmd))
 		return 0;
 
-	pte = pte_offset_map_lock(walk->mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
+	mapped_pte = pte = pte_offset_map_lock(walk->mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
 	for (; addr != end; pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
 		if (!pte_present(*pte))
 			continue;

@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ static int queue_pages_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
 		} else
 			break;
 	}
-	pte_unmap_unlock(pte - 1, ptl);
+	pte_unmap_unlock(mapped_pte, ptl);
 	cond_resched();
 
 	if (has_unmovable)