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[3.5.y.z,extended,stable] Patch "mm/pagewalk.c: walk_page_range should avoid VM_PFNMAP areas" has been added to staging queue

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Luis Henriques May 28, 2013, 9:51 a.m. UTC 
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    mm/pagewalk.c: walk_page_range should avoid VM_PFNMAP areas

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From 0aab32cdc47abcca740dccb34794d7fe8c2b1b51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 15:55:36 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] mm/pagewalk.c: walk_page_range should avoid VM_PFNMAP areas

commit a9ff785e4437c83d2179161e012f5bdfbd6381f0 upstream.

A panic can be caused by simply cat'ing /proc/<pid>/smaps while an
application has a VM_PFNMAP range.  It happened in-house when a
benchmarker was trying to decipher the memory layout of his program.

/proc/<pid>/smaps and similar walks through a user page table should not
be looking at VM_PFNMAP areas.

Certain tests in walk_page_range() (specifically split_huge_page_pmd())
assume that all the mapped PFN's are backed with page structures.  And
this is not usually true for VM_PFNMAP areas.  This can result in panics
on kernel page faults when attempting to address those page structures.

There are a half dozen callers of walk_page_range() that walk through a
task's entire page table (as N.  Horiguchi pointed out).  So rather than
change all of them, this patch changes just walk_page_range() to ignore
VM_PFNMAP areas.

The logic of hugetlb_vma() is moved back into walk_page_range(), as we
want to test any vma in the range.

VM_PFNMAP areas are used by:
- graphics memory manager   gpu/drm/drm_gem.c
- global reference unit     sgi-gru/grufile.c
- sgi special memory        char/mspec.c
- and probably several out-of-tree modules

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove now-unused hugetlb_vma() stub]
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
---
 mm/pagewalk.c | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

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diff --git a/mm/pagewalk.c b/mm/pagewalk.c
index 6c118d0..449cad6 100644
--- a/mm/pagewalk.c
+++ b/mm/pagewalk.c
@@ -127,28 +127,7 @@  static int walk_hugetlb_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	return 0;
 }

-static struct vm_area_struct* hugetlb_vma(unsigned long addr, struct mm_walk *walk)
-{
-	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
-
-	/* We don't need vma lookup at all. */
-	if (!walk->hugetlb_entry)
-		return NULL;
-
-	VM_BUG_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(&walk->mm->mmap_sem));
-	vma = find_vma(walk->mm, addr);
-	if (vma && vma->vm_start <= addr && is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma))
-		return vma;
-
-	return NULL;
-}
-
 #else /* CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE */
-static struct vm_area_struct* hugetlb_vma(unsigned long addr, struct mm_walk *walk)
-{
-	return NULL;
-}
-
 static int walk_hugetlb_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 			      unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 			      struct mm_walk *walk)
@@ -198,30 +177,53 @@  int walk_page_range(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 	if (!walk->mm)
 		return -EINVAL;

+	VM_BUG_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(&walk->mm->mmap_sem));
+
 	pgd = pgd_offset(walk->mm, addr);
 	do {
-		struct vm_area_struct *vma;
+		struct vm_area_struct *vma = NULL;

 		next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);

 		/*
-		 * handle hugetlb vma individually because pagetable walk for
-		 * the hugetlb page is dependent on the architecture and
-		 * we can't handled it in the same manner as non-huge pages.
+		 * This function was not intended to be vma based.
+		 * But there are vma special cases to be handled:
+		 * - hugetlb vma's
+		 * - VM_PFNMAP vma's
 		 */
-		vma = hugetlb_vma(addr, walk);
+		vma = find_vma(walk->mm, addr);
 		if (vma) {
-			if (vma->vm_end < next)
+			/*
+			 * There are no page structures backing a VM_PFNMAP
+			 * range, so do not allow split_huge_page_pmd().
+			 */
+			if ((vma->vm_start <= addr) &&
+			    (vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP)) {
 				next = vma->vm_end;
+				pgd = pgd_offset(walk->mm, next);
+				continue;
+			}
 			/*
-			 * Hugepage is very tightly coupled with vma, so
-			 * walk through hugetlb entries within a given vma.
+			 * Handle hugetlb vma individually because pagetable
+			 * walk for the hugetlb page is dependent on the
+			 * architecture and we can't handled it in the same
+			 * manner as non-huge pages.
 			 */
-			err = walk_hugetlb_range(vma, addr, next, walk);
-			if (err)
-				break;
-			pgd = pgd_offset(walk->mm, next);
-			continue;
+			if (walk->hugetlb_entry && (vma->vm_start <= addr) &&
+			    is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) {
+				if (vma->vm_end < next)
+					next = vma->vm_end;
+				/*
+				 * Hugepage is very tightly coupled with vma,
+				 * so walk through hugetlb entries within a
+				 * given vma.
+				 */
+				err = walk_hugetlb_range(vma, addr, next, walk);
+				if (err)
+					break;
+				pgd = pgd_offset(walk->mm, next);
+				continue;
+			}
 		}

 		if (pgd_none_or_clear_bad(pgd)) {