This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
userfaultfd: shmem: __do_fault requires VM_FAULT_NOPAGE
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: userfaultfd-shmem-__do_fault-requires-vm_fault_nopage.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Mon Dec 18 14:12:34 CET 2017
From: Andrea Arcangeli aarcange@redhat.com Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 16:16:28 -0800 Subject: userfaultfd: shmem: __do_fault requires VM_FAULT_NOPAGE
From: Andrea Arcangeli aarcange@redhat.com
[ Upstream commit 6bbc4a4144b1a69743022ac68dfaf6e7d993abb9 ]
__do_fault assumes vmf->page has been initialized and is valid if VM_FAULT_NOPAGE is not returned by vma->vm_ops->fault(vma, vmf).
handle_userfault() in turn should return VM_FAULT_NOPAGE if it doesn't return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS or VM_FAULT_RETRY (the other two possibilities).
This VM_FAULT_NOPAGE case is only invoked when signal are pending and it didn't matter for anonymous memory before. It only started to matter since shmem was introduced. hugetlbfs also takes a different path and doesn't exercise __do_fault.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170228154201.GH5816@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli aarcange@redhat.com Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov dvyukov@google.com Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" kirill@shutemov.name Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/userfaultfd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/userfaultfd.c +++ b/fs/userfaultfd.c @@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ int handle_userfault(struct fault_env *f * in such case. */ down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); - ret = 0; + ret = VM_FAULT_NOPAGE; } }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aarcange@redhat.com are
queue-4.9/userfaultfd-selftest-vm-allow-to-build-in-vm-directory.patch queue-4.9/userfaultfd-shmem-__do_fault-requires-vm_fault_nopage.patch