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<title>mm: avoid data corruption on CoW fault into PFN-mapped VMA</title>
<updated>2020-10-01T11:17:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill@shutemov.name</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-06T06:28:32+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c3e5ea6ee574ae5e845a40ac8198de1fb63bb3ab ]

Jeff Moyer has reported that one of xfstests triggers a warning when run
on DAX-enabled filesystem:

	WARNING: CPU: 76 PID: 51024 at mm/memory.c:2317 wp_page_copy+0xc40/0xd50
	...
	wp_page_copy+0x98c/0xd50 (unreliable)
	do_wp_page+0xd8/0xad0
	__handle_mm_fault+0x748/0x1b90
	handle_mm_fault+0x120/0x1f0
	__do_page_fault+0x240/0xd70
	do_page_fault+0x38/0xd0
	handle_page_fault+0x10/0x30

The warning happens on failed __copy_from_user_inatomic() which tries to
copy data into a CoW page.

This happens because of race between MADV_DONTNEED and CoW page fault:

	CPU0					CPU1
 handle_mm_fault()
   do_wp_page()
     wp_page_copy()
       do_wp_page()
					madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)
					  zap_page_range()
					    zap_pte_range()
					      ptep_get_and_clear_full()
					      &lt;TLB flush&gt;
	 __copy_from_user_inatomic()
	 sees empty PTE and fails
	 WARN_ON_ONCE(1)
	 clear_page()

The solution is to re-try __copy_from_user_inatomic() under PTL after
checking that PTE is matches the orig_pte.

The second copy attempt can still fail, like due to non-readable PTE, but
there's nothing reasonable we can do about, except clearing the CoW page.

Reported-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Justin He &lt;Justin.He@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200218154151.13349-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit c3e5ea6ee574ae5e845a40ac8198de1fb63bb3ab ]

Jeff Moyer has reported that one of xfstests triggers a warning when run
on DAX-enabled filesystem:

	WARNING: CPU: 76 PID: 51024 at mm/memory.c:2317 wp_page_copy+0xc40/0xd50
	...
	wp_page_copy+0x98c/0xd50 (unreliable)
	do_wp_page+0xd8/0xad0
	__handle_mm_fault+0x748/0x1b90
	handle_mm_fault+0x120/0x1f0
	__do_page_fault+0x240/0xd70
	do_page_fault+0x38/0xd0
	handle_page_fault+0x10/0x30

The warning happens on failed __copy_from_user_inatomic() which tries to
copy data into a CoW page.

This happens because of race between MADV_DONTNEED and CoW page fault:

	CPU0					CPU1
 handle_mm_fault()
   do_wp_page()
     wp_page_copy()
       do_wp_page()
					madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)
					  zap_page_range()
					    zap_pte_range()
					      ptep_get_and_clear_full()
					      &lt;TLB flush&gt;
	 __copy_from_user_inatomic()
	 sees empty PTE and fails
	 WARN_ON_ONCE(1)
	 clear_page()

The solution is to re-try __copy_from_user_inatomic() under PTL after
checking that PTE is matches the orig_pte.

The second copy attempt can still fail, like due to non-readable PTE, but
there's nothing reasonable we can do about, except clearing the CoW page.

Reported-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Justin He &lt;Justin.He@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200218154151.13349-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: fix double page fault on arm64 if PTE_AF is cleared</title>
<updated>2020-10-01T11:17:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jia He</name>
<email>justin.he@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-11T14:09:39+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 83d116c53058d505ddef051e90ab27f57015b025 ]

When we tested pmdk unit test [1] vmmalloc_fork TEST3 on arm64 guest, there
will be a double page fault in __copy_from_user_inatomic of cow_user_page.

To reproduce the bug, the cmd is as follows after you deployed everything:
make -C src/test/vmmalloc_fork/ TEST_TIME=60m check

Below call trace is from arm64 do_page_fault for debugging purpose:
[  110.016195] Call trace:
[  110.016826]  do_page_fault+0x5a4/0x690
[  110.017812]  do_mem_abort+0x50/0xb0
[  110.018726]  el1_da+0x20/0xc4
[  110.019492]  __arch_copy_from_user+0x180/0x280
[  110.020646]  do_wp_page+0xb0/0x860
[  110.021517]  __handle_mm_fault+0x994/0x1338
[  110.022606]  handle_mm_fault+0xe8/0x180
[  110.023584]  do_page_fault+0x240/0x690
[  110.024535]  do_mem_abort+0x50/0xb0
[  110.025423]  el0_da+0x20/0x24

The pte info before __copy_from_user_inatomic is (PTE_AF is cleared):
[ffff9b007000] pgd=000000023d4f8003, pud=000000023da9b003,
               pmd=000000023d4b3003, pte=360000298607bd3

As told by Catalin: "On arm64 without hardware Access Flag, copying from
user will fail because the pte is old and cannot be marked young. So we
always end up with zeroed page after fork() + CoW for pfn mappings. we
don't always have a hardware-managed access flag on arm64."

This patch fixes it by calling pte_mkyoung. Also, the parameter is
changed because vmf should be passed to cow_user_page()

Add a WARN_ON_ONCE when __copy_from_user_inatomic() returns error
in case there can be some obscure use-case (by Kirill).

[1] https://github.com/pmem/pmdk/tree/master/src/test/vmmalloc_fork

Signed-off-by: Jia He &lt;justin.he@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Yibo Cai &lt;Yibo.Cai@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 83d116c53058d505ddef051e90ab27f57015b025 ]

When we tested pmdk unit test [1] vmmalloc_fork TEST3 on arm64 guest, there
will be a double page fault in __copy_from_user_inatomic of cow_user_page.

To reproduce the bug, the cmd is as follows after you deployed everything:
make -C src/test/vmmalloc_fork/ TEST_TIME=60m check

Below call trace is from arm64 do_page_fault for debugging purpose:
[  110.016195] Call trace:
[  110.016826]  do_page_fault+0x5a4/0x690
[  110.017812]  do_mem_abort+0x50/0xb0
[  110.018726]  el1_da+0x20/0xc4
[  110.019492]  __arch_copy_from_user+0x180/0x280
[  110.020646]  do_wp_page+0xb0/0x860
[  110.021517]  __handle_mm_fault+0x994/0x1338
[  110.022606]  handle_mm_fault+0xe8/0x180
[  110.023584]  do_page_fault+0x240/0x690
[  110.024535]  do_mem_abort+0x50/0xb0
[  110.025423]  el0_da+0x20/0x24

The pte info before __copy_from_user_inatomic is (PTE_AF is cleared):
[ffff9b007000] pgd=000000023d4f8003, pud=000000023da9b003,
               pmd=000000023d4b3003, pte=360000298607bd3

As told by Catalin: "On arm64 without hardware Access Flag, copying from
user will fail because the pte is old and cannot be marked young. So we
always end up with zeroed page after fork() + CoW for pfn mappings. we
don't always have a hardware-managed access flag on arm64."

This patch fixes it by calling pte_mkyoung. Also, the parameter is
changed because vmf should be passed to cow_user_page()

Add a WARN_ON_ONCE when __copy_from_user_inatomic() returns error
in case there can be some obscure use-case (by Kirill).

[1] https://github.com/pmem/pmdk/tree/master/src/test/vmmalloc_fork

Signed-off-by: Jia He &lt;justin.he@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Yibo Cai &lt;Yibo.Cai@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: drop mmap_sem before calling balance_dirty_pages() in write fault</title>
<updated>2020-01-09T09:19:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-01T01:50:22+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 89b15332af7c0312a41e50846819ca6613b58b4c ]

One of our services is observing hanging ps/top/etc under heavy write
IO, and the task states show this is an mmap_sem priority inversion:

A write fault is holding the mmap_sem in read-mode and waiting for
(heavily cgroup-limited) IO in balance_dirty_pages():

    balance_dirty_pages+0x724/0x905
    balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited+0x254/0x390
    fault_dirty_shared_page.isra.96+0x4a/0x90
    do_wp_page+0x33e/0x400
    __handle_mm_fault+0x6f0/0xfa0
    handle_mm_fault+0xe4/0x200
    __do_page_fault+0x22b/0x4a0
    page_fault+0x45/0x50

Somebody tries to change the address space, contending for the mmap_sem in
write-mode:

    call_rwsem_down_write_failed_killable+0x13/0x20
    do_mprotect_pkey+0xa8/0x330
    SyS_mprotect+0xf/0x20
    do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x100
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2

The waiting writer locks out all subsequent readers to avoid lock
starvation, and several threads can be seen hanging like this:

    call_rwsem_down_read_failed+0x14/0x30
    proc_pid_cmdline_read+0xa0/0x480
    __vfs_read+0x23/0x140
    vfs_read+0x87/0x130
    SyS_read+0x42/0x90
    do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x100
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2

To fix this, do what we do for cache read faults already: drop the
mmap_sem before calling into anything IO bound, in this case the
balance_dirty_pages() function, and return VM_FAULT_RETRY.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190924194238.GA29030@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;hdanton@sina.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 89b15332af7c0312a41e50846819ca6613b58b4c ]

One of our services is observing hanging ps/top/etc under heavy write
IO, and the task states show this is an mmap_sem priority inversion:

A write fault is holding the mmap_sem in read-mode and waiting for
(heavily cgroup-limited) IO in balance_dirty_pages():

    balance_dirty_pages+0x724/0x905
    balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited+0x254/0x390
    fault_dirty_shared_page.isra.96+0x4a/0x90
    do_wp_page+0x33e/0x400
    __handle_mm_fault+0x6f0/0xfa0
    handle_mm_fault+0xe4/0x200
    __do_page_fault+0x22b/0x4a0
    page_fault+0x45/0x50

Somebody tries to change the address space, contending for the mmap_sem in
write-mode:

    call_rwsem_down_write_failed_killable+0x13/0x20
    do_mprotect_pkey+0xa8/0x330
    SyS_mprotect+0xf/0x20
    do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x100
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2

The waiting writer locks out all subsequent readers to avoid lock
starvation, and several threads can be seen hanging like this:

    call_rwsem_down_read_failed+0x14/0x30
    proc_pid_cmdline_read+0xa0/0x480
    __vfs_read+0x23/0x140
    vfs_read+0x87/0x130
    SyS_read+0x42/0x90
    do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x100
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2

To fix this, do what we do for cache read faults already: drop the
mmap_sem before calling into anything IO bound, in this case the
balance_dirty_pages() function, and return VM_FAULT_RETRY.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190924194238.GA29030@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;hdanton@sina.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: do not hash address in print_bad_pte()</title>
<updated>2019-09-24T22:54:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kefeng Wang</name>
<email>wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-23T22:35:34+00:00</published>
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Using %px to show the actual address in print_bad_pte()
to help us to debug issue.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190831011816.141002-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Using %px to show the actual address in print_bad_pte()
to help us to debug issue.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190831011816.141002-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: release the spinlock on zap_pte_range</title>
<updated>2019-09-24T22:54:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Minchan Kim</name>
<email>minchan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-24T00:02:24+00:00</published>
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In our testing (camera recording), Miguel and Wei found
unmap_page_range() takes above 6ms with preemption disabled easily.
When I see that, the reason is it holds page table spinlock during
entire 512 page operation in a PMD.  6.2ms is never trivial for user
experince if RT task couldn't run in the time because it could make
frame drop or glitch audio problem.

I had a time to benchmark it via adding some trace_printk hooks between
pte_offset_map_lock and pte_unmap_unlock in zap_pte_range.  The testing
device is 2018 premium mobile device.

I can get 2ms delay rather easily to release 2M(ie, 512 pages) when the
task runs on little core even though it doesn't have any IPI and LRU
lock contention.  It's already too heavy.

If I remove activate_page, 35-40% overhead of zap_pte_range is gone so
most of overhead(about 0.7ms) comes from activate_page via
mark_page_accessed.  Thus, if there are LRU contention, that 0.7ms could
accumulate up to several ms.

So this patch adds a check for need_resched() in the loop, and a
preemption point if necessary.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190731061440.GC155569@google.com
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Miguel de Dios &lt;migueldedios@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Wei Wang &lt;wvw@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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In our testing (camera recording), Miguel and Wei found
unmap_page_range() takes above 6ms with preemption disabled easily.
When I see that, the reason is it holds page table spinlock during
entire 512 page operation in a PMD.  6.2ms is never trivial for user
experince if RT task couldn't run in the time because it could make
frame drop or glitch audio problem.

I had a time to benchmark it via adding some trace_printk hooks between
pte_offset_map_lock and pte_unmap_unlock in zap_pte_range.  The testing
device is 2018 premium mobile device.

I can get 2ms delay rather easily to release 2M(ie, 512 pages) when the
task runs on little core even though it doesn't have any IPI and LRU
lock contention.  It's already too heavy.

If I remove activate_page, 35-40% overhead of zap_pte_range is gone so
most of overhead(about 0.7ms) comes from activate_page via
mark_page_accessed.  Thus, if there are LRU contention, that 0.7ms could
accumulate up to several ms.

So this patch adds a check for need_resched() in the loop, and a
preemption point if necessary.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190731061440.GC155569@google.com
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Miguel de Dios &lt;migueldedios@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Wei Wang &lt;wvw@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: remove redundant assignment of entry</title>
<updated>2019-09-24T22:54:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wei Yang</name>
<email>richardw.yang@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-23T22:35:13+00:00</published>
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Since ptent will not be changed after previous assignment of entry, it is
not necessary to do the assignment again.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190708082740.21111-1-richardw.yang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang &lt;richardw.yang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Since ptent will not be changed after previous assignment of entry, it is
not necessary to do the assignment again.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190708082740.21111-1-richardw.yang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang &lt;richardw.yang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: don't allow writes to swap files</title>
<updated>2019-08-20T14:55:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Darrick J. Wong</name>
<email>darrick.wong@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-20T14:55:16+00:00</published>
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Don't let userspace write to an active swap file because the kernel
effectively has a long term lease on the storage and things could get
seriously corrupted if we let this happen.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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Don't let userspace write to an active swap file because the kernel
effectively has a long term lease on the storage and things could get
seriously corrupted if we let this happen.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: thp: make transhuge_vma_suitable available for anonymous THP</title>
<updated>2019-07-19T00:08:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yang Shi</name>
<email>yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-18T22:57:24+00:00</published>
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transhuge_vma_suitable() was only available for shmem THP, but anonymous
THP has the same check except pgoff check.  And, it will be used for THP
eligible check in the later patch, so make it available for all kind of
THPs.  This also helps reduce code duplication slightly.

Since anonymous THP doesn't have to check pgoff, so make pgoff check
shmem vma only.

And regroup some functions in include/linux/mm.h to solve compile issue
since transhuge_vma_suitable() needs call vma_is_anonymous() which was
defined after huge_mm.h is included.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo]
[yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com: v4]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1563400758-124759-2-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1560401041-32207-2-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi &lt;yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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transhuge_vma_suitable() was only available for shmem THP, but anonymous
THP has the same check except pgoff check.  And, it will be used for THP
eligible check in the later patch, so make it available for all kind of
THPs.  This also helps reduce code duplication slightly.

Since anonymous THP doesn't have to check pgoff, so make pgoff check
shmem vma only.

And regroup some functions in include/linux/mm.h to solve compile issue
since transhuge_vma_suitable() needs call vma_is_anonymous() which was
defined after huge_mm.h is included.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo]
[yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com: v4]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1563400758-124759-2-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1560401041-32207-2-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi &lt;yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-hmm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma</title>
<updated>2019-07-15T02:42:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-15T02:42:11+00:00</published>
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Pull HMM updates from Jason Gunthorpe:
 "Improvements and bug fixes for the hmm interface in the kernel:

   - Improve clarity, locking and APIs related to the 'hmm mirror'
     feature merged last cycle. In linux-next we now see AMDGPU and
     nouveau to be using this API.

   - Remove old or transitional hmm APIs. These are hold overs from the
     past with no users, or APIs that existed only to manage cross tree
     conflicts. There are still a few more of these cleanups that didn't
     make the merge window cut off.

   - Improve some core mm APIs:
       - export alloc_pages_vma() for driver use
       - refactor into devm_request_free_mem_region() to manage
         DEVICE_PRIVATE resource reservations
       - refactor duplicative driver code into the core dev_pagemap
         struct

   - Remove hmm wrappers of improved core mm APIs, instead have drivers
     use the simplified API directly

   - Remove DEVICE_PUBLIC

   - Simplify the kconfig flow for the hmm users and core code"

* tag 'for-linus-hmm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma: (42 commits)
  mm: don't select MIGRATE_VMA_HELPER from HMM_MIRROR
  mm: remove the HMM config option
  mm: sort out the DEVICE_PRIVATE Kconfig mess
  mm: simplify ZONE_DEVICE page private data
  mm: remove hmm_devmem_add
  mm: remove hmm_vma_alloc_locked_page
  nouveau: use devm_memremap_pages directly
  nouveau: use alloc_page_vma directly
  PCI/P2PDMA: use the dev_pagemap internal refcount
  device-dax: use the dev_pagemap internal refcount
  memremap: provide an optional internal refcount in struct dev_pagemap
  memremap: replace the altmap_valid field with a PGMAP_ALTMAP_VALID flag
  memremap: remove the data field in struct dev_pagemap
  memremap: add a migrate_to_ram method to struct dev_pagemap_ops
  memremap: lift the devmap_enable manipulation into devm_memremap_pages
  memremap: pass a struct dev_pagemap to -&gt;kill and -&gt;cleanup
  memremap: move dev_pagemap callbacks into a separate structure
  memremap: validate the pagemap type passed to devm_memremap_pages
  mm: factor out a devm_request_free_mem_region helper
  mm: export alloc_pages_vma
  ...
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Pull HMM updates from Jason Gunthorpe:
 "Improvements and bug fixes for the hmm interface in the kernel:

   - Improve clarity, locking and APIs related to the 'hmm mirror'
     feature merged last cycle. In linux-next we now see AMDGPU and
     nouveau to be using this API.

   - Remove old or transitional hmm APIs. These are hold overs from the
     past with no users, or APIs that existed only to manage cross tree
     conflicts. There are still a few more of these cleanups that didn't
     make the merge window cut off.

   - Improve some core mm APIs:
       - export alloc_pages_vma() for driver use
       - refactor into devm_request_free_mem_region() to manage
         DEVICE_PRIVATE resource reservations
       - refactor duplicative driver code into the core dev_pagemap
         struct

   - Remove hmm wrappers of improved core mm APIs, instead have drivers
     use the simplified API directly

   - Remove DEVICE_PUBLIC

   - Simplify the kconfig flow for the hmm users and core code"

* tag 'for-linus-hmm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma: (42 commits)
  mm: don't select MIGRATE_VMA_HELPER from HMM_MIRROR
  mm: remove the HMM config option
  mm: sort out the DEVICE_PRIVATE Kconfig mess
  mm: simplify ZONE_DEVICE page private data
  mm: remove hmm_devmem_add
  mm: remove hmm_vma_alloc_locked_page
  nouveau: use devm_memremap_pages directly
  nouveau: use alloc_page_vma directly
  PCI/P2PDMA: use the dev_pagemap internal refcount
  device-dax: use the dev_pagemap internal refcount
  memremap: provide an optional internal refcount in struct dev_pagemap
  memremap: replace the altmap_valid field with a PGMAP_ALTMAP_VALID flag
  memremap: remove the data field in struct dev_pagemap
  memremap: add a migrate_to_ram method to struct dev_pagemap_ops
  memremap: lift the devmap_enable manipulation into devm_memremap_pages
  memremap: pass a struct dev_pagemap to -&gt;kill and -&gt;cleanup
  memremap: move dev_pagemap callbacks into a separate structure
  memremap: validate the pagemap type passed to devm_memremap_pages
  mm: factor out a devm_request_free_mem_region helper
  mm: export alloc_pages_vma
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: use down_read_killable for locking mmap_sem in access_remote_vm</title>
<updated>2019-07-12T18:05:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konstantin Khlebnikov</name>
<email>khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-12T04:00:07+00:00</published>
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This function is used by ptrace and proc files like /proc/pid/cmdline and
/proc/pid/environ.

Access_remote_vm never returns error codes, all errors are ignored and
only size of successfully read data is returned.  So, if current task was
killed we'll simply return 0 (bytes read).

Mmap_sem could be locked for a long time or forever if something goes
wrong.  Using a killable lock permits cleanup of stuck tasks and
simplifies investigation.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156007494202.3335.16782303099589302087.stgit@buzz
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This function is used by ptrace and proc files like /proc/pid/cmdline and
/proc/pid/environ.

Access_remote_vm never returns error codes, all errors are ignored and
only size of successfully read data is returned.  So, if current task was
killed we'll simply return 0 (bytes read).

Mmap_sem could be locked for a long time or forever if something goes
wrong.  Using a killable lock permits cleanup of stuck tasks and
simplifies investigation.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156007494202.3335.16782303099589302087.stgit@buzz
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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