The patch titled Subject: khugepaged: khugepaged_test_exit() check mmget_still_valid() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is khugepaged-khugepaged_test_exit-check-mmget_still_valid.patch
This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/khugepaged-khugepaged_test_exit-che... and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/khugepaged-khugepaged_test_exit-che...
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------------------------------------------------------ From: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Subject: 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.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.2008021217020.27773@eggly.anvils Fixes: 59ea6d06cfa9 ("coredump: fix race condition between collapse_huge_page() and core dumping") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Cc: Andrea Arcangeli aarcange@redhat.com Cc: Song Liu songliubraving@fb.com Cc: Mike Kravetz mike.kravetz@oracle.com Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [4.8+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
mm/khugepaged.c | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c~khugepaged-khugepaged_test_exit-check-mmget_still_valid +++ a/mm/khugepaged.c @@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ static void insert_to_mm_slots_hash(stru
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 * 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; _
Patches currently in -mm which might be from hughd@google.com are
mm-memcontrol-decouple-reference-counting-from-page-accounting-fix.patch khugepaged-collapse_pte_mapped_thp-flush-the-right-range.patch khugepaged-collapse_pte_mapped_thp-protect-the-pmd-lock.patch khugepaged-retract_page_tables-remember-to-test-exit.patch khugepaged-khugepaged_test_exit-check-mmget_still_valid.patch