FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm: thp: fix flags for pmd migration when split" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-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 2e83ee1d8694a61d0d95a5b694f2e61e8dde8627 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Xu <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 14:30:50 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] mm: thp: fix flags for pmd migration when split

When splitting a huge migrating PMD, we'll transfer all the existing PMD bits and apply them again onto the small PTEs. However we are fetching the bits unconditionally via pmd_soft_dirty(), pmd_write() or pmd_yound() while actually they don't make sense at all when it's a migration entry. Fix them up. Since at it, drop the ifdef together as not needed.

Note that if my understanding is correct about the problem then if without the patch there is chance to lose some of the dirty bits in the migrating pmd pages (on x86_64 we're fetching bit 11 which is part of swap offset instead of bit 2) and it could potentially corrupt the memory of an userspace program which depends on the dirty bit.

index 5da55b38b1b7..e84a10b0d310 100644
@@ -2144,23 +2144,25 @@ static void __split_huge_pmd_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
 	 */
 	old_pmd = pmdp_invalidate(vma, haddr, pmd);
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION
 	pmd_migration = is_pmd_migration_entry(old_pmd);
-	if (pmd_migration) {
+	if (unlikely(pmd_migration)) {
 		swp_entry_t entry;
 
 		entry = pmd_to_swp_entry(old_pmd);
 		page = pfn_to_page(swp_offset(entry));
-	} else
-#endif
+		write = is_write_migration_entry(entry);
+		young = false;
+		soft_dirty = pmd_swp_soft_dirty(old_pmd);
+	} else {
 		page = pmd_page(old_pmd);
+		if (pmd_dirty(old_pmd))
+			SetPageDirty(page);
+		write = pmd_write(old_pmd);
+		young = pmd_young(old_pmd);
+		soft_dirty = pmd_soft_dirty(old_pmd);
+	}
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!page_count(page), page);
 	page_ref_add(page, HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1);
-	if (pmd_dirty(old_pmd))
-		SetPageDirty(page);
-	write = pmd_write(old_pmd);
-	young = pmd_young(old_pmd);
-	soft_dirty = pmd_soft_dirty(old_pmd);
 
 	/*
 	 * Withdraw the table only after we mark the pmd entry invalid.