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[3.11.y.z,extended,stable] Patch "mm: hugetlb: fix copy_hugetlb_page_range()" has been added to staging queue

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Luis Henriques July 24, 2014, 9:42 a.m. UTC
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    mm: hugetlb: fix copy_hugetlb_page_range()

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.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-3.11.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 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From 1ac74bf660284a8879dafb63fa5ed99f37ed110b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 14:00:19 -0700
Subject: mm: hugetlb: fix copy_hugetlb_page_range()

commit 0253d634e0803a8376a0d88efee0bf523d8673f9 upstream.

Commit 4a705fef9862 ("hugetlb: fix copy_hugetlb_page_range() to handle
migration/hwpoisoned entry") changed the order of
huge_ptep_set_wrprotect() and huge_ptep_get(), which leads to breakage
in some workloads like hugepage-backed heap allocation via libhugetlbfs.
This patch fixes it.

The test program for the problem is shown below:

  $ cat heap.c
  #include <unistd.h>
  #include <stdlib.h>
  #include <string.h>

  #define HPS 0x200000

  int main() {
  	int i;
  	char *p = malloc(HPS);
  	memset(p, '1', HPS);
  	for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
  		if (!fork()) {
  			memset(p, '2', HPS);
  			p = malloc(HPS);
  			memset(p, '3', HPS);
  			free(p);
  			return 0;
  		}
  	}
  	sleep(1);
  	free(p);
  	return 0;
  }

  $ export HUGETLB_MORECORE=yes ; export HUGETLB_NO_PREFAULT= ; hugectl --heap ./heap

Fixes 4a705fef9862 ("hugetlb: fix copy_hugetlb_page_range() to handle
migration/hwpoisoned entry"), so is applicable to -stable kernels which
include it.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Reported-by: Guillaume Morin <guillaume@morinfr.org>
Suggested-by: Guillaume Morin <guillaume@morinfr.org>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.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/hugetlb.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

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diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 16c25a39939f..7c574fb35df3 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2393,6 +2393,7 @@  int copy_hugetlb_page_range(struct mm_struct *dst, struct mm_struct *src,
 		} else {
 			if (cow)
 				huge_ptep_set_wrprotect(src, addr, src_pte);
+			entry = huge_ptep_get(src_pte);
 			ptepage = pte_page(entry);
 			get_page(ptepage);
 			page_dup_rmap(ptepage);