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<title>mm: make sendfile(2) killable</title>
<updated>2015-11-09T18:12:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-22T20:32:21+00:00</published>
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commit 296291cdd1629c308114504b850dc343eabc2782 upstream.

Currently a simple program below issues a sendfile(2) system call which
takes about 62 days to complete in my test KVM instance.

        int fd;
        off_t off = 0;

        fd = open("file", O_RDWR | O_TRUNC | O_SYNC | O_CREAT, 0644);
        ftruncate(fd, 2);
        lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END);
        sendfile(fd, fd, &amp;off, 0xfffffff);

Now you should not ask kernel to do a stupid stuff like copying 256MB in
2-byte chunks and call fsync(2) after each chunk but if you do, sysadmin
should have a way to stop you.

We actually do have a check for fatal_signal_pending() in
generic_perform_write() which triggers in this path however because we
always succeed in writing something before the check is done, we return
value &gt; 0 from generic_perform_write() and thus the information about
signal gets lost.

Fix the problem by doing the signal check before writing anything.  That
way generic_perform_write() returns -EINTR, the error gets propagated up
and the sendfile loop terminates early.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&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: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 296291cdd1629c308114504b850dc343eabc2782 upstream.

Currently a simple program below issues a sendfile(2) system call which
takes about 62 days to complete in my test KVM instance.

        int fd;
        off_t off = 0;

        fd = open("file", O_RDWR | O_TRUNC | O_SYNC | O_CREAT, 0644);
        ftruncate(fd, 2);
        lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END);
        sendfile(fd, fd, &amp;off, 0xfffffff);

Now you should not ask kernel to do a stupid stuff like copying 256MB in
2-byte chunks and call fsync(2) after each chunk but if you do, sysadmin
should have a way to stop you.

We actually do have a check for fatal_signal_pending() in
generic_perform_write() which triggers in this path however because we
always succeed in writing something before the check is done, we return
value &gt; 0 from generic_perform_write() and thus the information about
signal gets lost.

Fix the problem by doing the signal check before writing anything.  That
way generic_perform_write() returns -EINTR, the error gets propagated up
and the sendfile loop terminates early.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&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: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>mm: hugetlbfs: skip shared VMAs when unmapping private pages to satisfy a fault</title>
<updated>2015-10-22T21:37:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@techsingularity.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-01T22:36:57+00:00</published>
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commit 2f84a8990ebbe235c59716896e017c6b2ca1200f upstream.

SunDong reported the following on

  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103841

	I think I find a linux bug, I have the test cases is constructed. I
	can stable recurring problems in fedora22(4.0.4) kernel version,
	arch for x86_64.  I construct transparent huge page, when the parent
	and child process with MAP_SHARE, MAP_PRIVATE way to access the same
	huge page area, it has the opportunity to lead to huge page copy on
	write failure, and then it will munmap the child corresponding mmap
	area, but then the child mmap area with VM_MAYSHARE attributes, child
	process munmap this area can trigger VM_BUG_ON in set_vma_resv_flags
	functions (vma - &gt; vm_flags &amp; VM_MAYSHARE).

There were a number of problems with the report (e.g.  it's hugetlbfs that
triggers this, not transparent huge pages) but it was fundamentally
correct in that a VM_BUG_ON in set_vma_resv_flags() can be triggered that
looks like this

	 vma ffff8804651fd0d0 start 00007fc474e00000 end 00007fc475e00000
	 next ffff8804651fd018 prev ffff8804651fd188 mm ffff88046b1b1800
	 prot 8000000000000027 anon_vma           (null) vm_ops ffffffff8182a7a0
	 pgoff 0 file ffff88106bdb9800 private_data           (null)
	 flags: 0x84400fb(read|write|shared|mayread|maywrite|mayexec|mayshare|dontexpand|hugetlb)
	 ------------
	 kernel BUG at mm/hugetlb.c:462!
	 SMP
	 Modules linked in: xt_pkttype xt_LOG xt_limit [..]
	 CPU: 38 PID: 26839 Comm: map Not tainted 4.0.4-default #1
	 Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R810/0TT6JF, BIOS 2.7.4 04/26/2012
	 set_vma_resv_flags+0x2d/0x30

The VM_BUG_ON is correct because private and shared mappings have
different reservation accounting but the warning clearly shows that the
VMA is shared.

When a private COW fails to allocate a new page then only the process
that created the VMA gets the page -- all the children unmap the page.
If the children access that data in the future then they get killed.

The problem is that the same file is mapped shared and private.  During
the COW, the allocation fails, the VMAs are traversed to unmap the other
private pages but a shared VMA is found and the bug is triggered.  This
patch identifies such VMAs and skips them.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Reported-by: SunDong &lt;sund_sky@126.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.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: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 2f84a8990ebbe235c59716896e017c6b2ca1200f upstream.

SunDong reported the following on

  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103841

	I think I find a linux bug, I have the test cases is constructed. I
	can stable recurring problems in fedora22(4.0.4) kernel version,
	arch for x86_64.  I construct transparent huge page, when the parent
	and child process with MAP_SHARE, MAP_PRIVATE way to access the same
	huge page area, it has the opportunity to lead to huge page copy on
	write failure, and then it will munmap the child corresponding mmap
	area, but then the child mmap area with VM_MAYSHARE attributes, child
	process munmap this area can trigger VM_BUG_ON in set_vma_resv_flags
	functions (vma - &gt; vm_flags &amp; VM_MAYSHARE).

There were a number of problems with the report (e.g.  it's hugetlbfs that
triggers this, not transparent huge pages) but it was fundamentally
correct in that a VM_BUG_ON in set_vma_resv_flags() can be triggered that
looks like this

	 vma ffff8804651fd0d0 start 00007fc474e00000 end 00007fc475e00000
	 next ffff8804651fd018 prev ffff8804651fd188 mm ffff88046b1b1800
	 prot 8000000000000027 anon_vma           (null) vm_ops ffffffff8182a7a0
	 pgoff 0 file ffff88106bdb9800 private_data           (null)
	 flags: 0x84400fb(read|write|shared|mayread|maywrite|mayexec|mayshare|dontexpand|hugetlb)
	 ------------
	 kernel BUG at mm/hugetlb.c:462!
	 SMP
	 Modules linked in: xt_pkttype xt_LOG xt_limit [..]
	 CPU: 38 PID: 26839 Comm: map Not tainted 4.0.4-default #1
	 Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R810/0TT6JF, BIOS 2.7.4 04/26/2012
	 set_vma_resv_flags+0x2d/0x30

The VM_BUG_ON is correct because private and shared mappings have
different reservation accounting but the warning clearly shows that the
VMA is shared.

When a private COW fails to allocate a new page then only the process
that created the VMA gets the page -- all the children unmap the page.
If the children access that data in the future then they get killed.

The problem is that the same file is mapped shared and private.  During
the COW, the allocation fails, the VMAs are traversed to unmap the other
private pages but a shared VMA is found and the bug is triggered.  This
patch identifies such VMAs and skips them.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Reported-by: SunDong &lt;sund_sky@126.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.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: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>vmscan: fix increasing nr_isolated incurred by putback unevictable pages</title>
<updated>2015-10-01T10:07:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jaewon Kim</name>
<email>jaewon31.kim@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-08T22:02:21+00:00</published>
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commit c54839a722a02818677bcabe57e957f0ce4f841d upstream.

reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() assumes that shrink_page_list() returns
number of pages removed from the candidate list.  But shrink_page_list()
puts back mlocked pages without passing it to caller and without
counting as nr_reclaimed.  This increases nr_isolated.

To fix this, this patch changes shrink_page_list() to pass unevictable
pages back to caller.  Caller will take care those pages.

Minchan said:

It fixes two issues.

1. With unevictable page, cma_alloc will be successful.

Exactly speaking, cma_alloc of current kernel will fail due to
unevictable pages.

2. fix leaking of NR_ISOLATED counter of vmstat

With it, too_many_isolated works.  Otherwise, it could make hang until
the process get SIGKILL.

Signed-off-by: Jaewon Kim &lt;jaewon31.kim@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&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: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c54839a722a02818677bcabe57e957f0ce4f841d upstream.

reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() assumes that shrink_page_list() returns
number of pages removed from the candidate list.  But shrink_page_list()
puts back mlocked pages without passing it to caller and without
counting as nr_reclaimed.  This increases nr_isolated.

To fix this, this patch changes shrink_page_list() to pass unevictable
pages back to caller.  Caller will take care those pages.

Minchan said:

It fixes two issues.

1. With unevictable page, cma_alloc will be successful.

Exactly speaking, cma_alloc of current kernel will fail due to
unevictable pages.

2. fix leaking of NR_ISOLATED counter of vmstat

With it, too_many_isolated works.  Otherwise, it could make hang until
the process get SIGKILL.

Signed-off-by: Jaewon Kim &lt;jaewon31.kim@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&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: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/hwpoison: fix page refcount of unknown non LRU page</title>
<updated>2015-09-13T16:07:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wanpeng Li</name>
<email>wanpeng.li@hotmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-14T22:34:56+00:00</published>
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commit 4f32be677b124a49459e2603321c7a5605ceb9f8 upstream.

After trying to drain pages from pagevec/pageset, we try to get reference
count of the page again, however, the reference count of the page is not
reduced if the page is still not on LRU list.

Fix it by adding the put_page() to drop the page reference which is from
__get_any_page().

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpeng.li@hotmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.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: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 4f32be677b124a49459e2603321c7a5605ceb9f8 upstream.

After trying to drain pages from pagevec/pageset, we try to get reference
count of the page again, however, the reference count of the page is not
reduced if the page is still not on LRU list.

Fix it by adding the put_page() to drop the page reference which is from
__get_any_page().

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpeng.li@hotmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.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: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>mm, vmscan: Do not wait for page writeback for GFP_NOFS allocations</title>
<updated>2015-08-17T03:51:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-04T21:36:58+00:00</published>
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commit ecf5fc6e9654cd7a268c782a523f072b2f1959f9 upstream.

Nikolay has reported a hang when a memcg reclaim got stuck with the
following backtrace:

PID: 18308  TASK: ffff883d7c9b0a30  CPU: 1   COMMAND: "rsync"
  #0 __schedule at ffffffff815ab152
  #1 schedule at ffffffff815ab76e
  #2 schedule_timeout at ffffffff815ae5e5
  #3 io_schedule_timeout at ffffffff815aad6a
  #4 bit_wait_io at ffffffff815abfc6
  #5 __wait_on_bit at ffffffff815abda5
  #6 wait_on_page_bit at ffffffff8111fd4f
  #7 shrink_page_list at ffffffff81135445
  #8 shrink_inactive_list at ffffffff81135845
  #9 shrink_lruvec at ffffffff81135ead
 #10 shrink_zone at ffffffff811360c3
 #11 shrink_zones at ffffffff81136eff
 #12 do_try_to_free_pages at ffffffff8113712f
 #13 try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages at ffffffff811372be
 #14 try_charge at ffffffff81189423
 #15 mem_cgroup_try_charge at ffffffff8118c6f5
 #16 __add_to_page_cache_locked at ffffffff8112137d
 #17 add_to_page_cache_lru at ffffffff81121618
 #18 pagecache_get_page at ffffffff8112170b
 #19 grow_dev_page at ffffffff811c8297
 #20 __getblk_slow at ffffffff811c91d6
 #21 __getblk_gfp at ffffffff811c92c1
 #22 ext4_ext_grow_indepth at ffffffff8124565c
 #23 ext4_ext_create_new_leaf at ffffffff81246ca8
 #24 ext4_ext_insert_extent at ffffffff81246f09
 #25 ext4_ext_map_blocks at ffffffff8124a848
 #26 ext4_map_blocks at ffffffff8121a5b7
 #27 mpage_map_one_extent at ffffffff8121b1fa
 #28 mpage_map_and_submit_extent at ffffffff8121f07b
 #29 ext4_writepages at ffffffff8121f6d5
 #30 do_writepages at ffffffff8112c490
 #31 __filemap_fdatawrite_range at ffffffff81120199
 #32 filemap_flush at ffffffff8112041c
 #33 ext4_alloc_da_blocks at ffffffff81219da1
 #34 ext4_rename at ffffffff81229b91
 #35 ext4_rename2 at ffffffff81229e32
 #36 vfs_rename at ffffffff811a08a5
 #37 SYSC_renameat2 at ffffffff811a3ffc
 #38 sys_renameat2 at ffffffff811a408e
 #39 sys_rename at ffffffff8119e51e
 #40 system_call_fastpath at ffffffff815afa89

Dave Chinner has properly pointed out that this is a deadlock in the
reclaim code because ext4 doesn't submit pages which are marked by
PG_writeback right away.

The heuristic was introduced by commit e62e384e9da8 ("memcg: prevent OOM
with too many dirty pages") and it was applied only when may_enter_fs
was specified.  The code has been changed by c3b94f44fcb0 ("memcg:
further prevent OOM with too many dirty pages") which has removed the
__GFP_FS restriction with a reasoning that we do not get into the fs
code.  But this is not sufficient apparently because the fs doesn't
necessarily submit pages marked PG_writeback for IO right away.

ext4_bio_write_page calls io_submit_add_bh but that doesn't necessarily
submit the bio.  Instead it tries to map more pages into the bio and
mpage_map_one_extent might trigger memcg charge which might end up
waiting on a page which is marked PG_writeback but hasn't been submitted
yet so we would end up waiting for something that never finishes.

Fix this issue by replacing __GFP_IO by may_enter_fs check (for case 2)
before we go to wait on the writeback.  The page fault path, which is
the only path that triggers memcg oom killer since 3.12, shouldn't
require GFP_NOFS and so we shouldn't reintroduce the premature OOM
killer issue which was originally addressed by the heuristic.

As per David Chinner the xfs is doing similar thing since 2.6.15 already
so ext4 is not the only affected filesystem.  Moreover he notes:

: For example: IO completion might require unwritten extent conversion
: which executes filesystem transactions and GFP_NOFS allocations. The
: writeback flag on the pages can not be cleared until unwritten
: extent conversion completes. Hence memory reclaim cannot wait on
: page writeback to complete in GFP_NOFS context because it is not
: safe to do so, memcg reclaim or otherwise.

[tytso@mit.edu: corrected the control flow]
Fixes: c3b94f44fcb0 ("memcg: further prevent OOM with too many dirty pages")
Reported-by: Nikolay Borisov &lt;kernel@kyup.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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commit ecf5fc6e9654cd7a268c782a523f072b2f1959f9 upstream.

Nikolay has reported a hang when a memcg reclaim got stuck with the
following backtrace:

PID: 18308  TASK: ffff883d7c9b0a30  CPU: 1   COMMAND: "rsync"
  #0 __schedule at ffffffff815ab152
  #1 schedule at ffffffff815ab76e
  #2 schedule_timeout at ffffffff815ae5e5
  #3 io_schedule_timeout at ffffffff815aad6a
  #4 bit_wait_io at ffffffff815abfc6
  #5 __wait_on_bit at ffffffff815abda5
  #6 wait_on_page_bit at ffffffff8111fd4f
  #7 shrink_page_list at ffffffff81135445
  #8 shrink_inactive_list at ffffffff81135845
  #9 shrink_lruvec at ffffffff81135ead
 #10 shrink_zone at ffffffff811360c3
 #11 shrink_zones at ffffffff81136eff
 #12 do_try_to_free_pages at ffffffff8113712f
 #13 try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages at ffffffff811372be
 #14 try_charge at ffffffff81189423
 #15 mem_cgroup_try_charge at ffffffff8118c6f5
 #16 __add_to_page_cache_locked at ffffffff8112137d
 #17 add_to_page_cache_lru at ffffffff81121618
 #18 pagecache_get_page at ffffffff8112170b
 #19 grow_dev_page at ffffffff811c8297
 #20 __getblk_slow at ffffffff811c91d6
 #21 __getblk_gfp at ffffffff811c92c1
 #22 ext4_ext_grow_indepth at ffffffff8124565c
 #23 ext4_ext_create_new_leaf at ffffffff81246ca8
 #24 ext4_ext_insert_extent at ffffffff81246f09
 #25 ext4_ext_map_blocks at ffffffff8124a848
 #26 ext4_map_blocks at ffffffff8121a5b7
 #27 mpage_map_one_extent at ffffffff8121b1fa
 #28 mpage_map_and_submit_extent at ffffffff8121f07b
 #29 ext4_writepages at ffffffff8121f6d5
 #30 do_writepages at ffffffff8112c490
 #31 __filemap_fdatawrite_range at ffffffff81120199
 #32 filemap_flush at ffffffff8112041c
 #33 ext4_alloc_da_blocks at ffffffff81219da1
 #34 ext4_rename at ffffffff81229b91
 #35 ext4_rename2 at ffffffff81229e32
 #36 vfs_rename at ffffffff811a08a5
 #37 SYSC_renameat2 at ffffffff811a3ffc
 #38 sys_renameat2 at ffffffff811a408e
 #39 sys_rename at ffffffff8119e51e
 #40 system_call_fastpath at ffffffff815afa89

Dave Chinner has properly pointed out that this is a deadlock in the
reclaim code because ext4 doesn't submit pages which are marked by
PG_writeback right away.

The heuristic was introduced by commit e62e384e9da8 ("memcg: prevent OOM
with too many dirty pages") and it was applied only when may_enter_fs
was specified.  The code has been changed by c3b94f44fcb0 ("memcg:
further prevent OOM with too many dirty pages") which has removed the
__GFP_FS restriction with a reasoning that we do not get into the fs
code.  But this is not sufficient apparently because the fs doesn't
necessarily submit pages marked PG_writeback for IO right away.

ext4_bio_write_page calls io_submit_add_bh but that doesn't necessarily
submit the bio.  Instead it tries to map more pages into the bio and
mpage_map_one_extent might trigger memcg charge which might end up
waiting on a page which is marked PG_writeback but hasn't been submitted
yet so we would end up waiting for something that never finishes.

Fix this issue by replacing __GFP_IO by may_enter_fs check (for case 2)
before we go to wait on the writeback.  The page fault path, which is
the only path that triggers memcg oom killer since 3.12, shouldn't
require GFP_NOFS and so we shouldn't reintroduce the premature OOM
killer issue which was originally addressed by the heuristic.

As per David Chinner the xfs is doing similar thing since 2.6.15 already
so ext4 is not the only affected filesystem.  Moreover he notes:

: For example: IO completion might require unwritten extent conversion
: which executes filesystem transactions and GFP_NOFS allocations. The
: writeback flag on the pages can not be cleared until unwritten
: extent conversion completes. Hence memory reclaim cannot wait on
: page writeback to complete in GFP_NOFS context because it is not
: safe to do so, memcg reclaim or otherwise.

[tytso@mit.edu: corrected the control flow]
Fixes: c3b94f44fcb0 ("memcg: further prevent OOM with too many dirty pages")
Reported-by: Nikolay Borisov &lt;kernel@kyup.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: avoid setting up anonymous pages into file mapping</title>
<updated>2015-08-10T19:20:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-06T20:18:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=efcbc94afe6dd0f8a4b112a0f3385cdc89ea58ba'/>
<id>efcbc94afe6dd0f8a4b112a0f3385cdc89ea58ba</id>
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commit 6b7339f4c31ad69c8e9c0b2859276e22cf72176d upstream.

Reading page fault handler code I've noticed that under right
circumstances kernel would map anonymous pages into file mappings: if
the VMA doesn't have vm_ops-&gt;fault() and the VMA wasn't fully populated
on -&gt;mmap(), kernel would handle page fault to not populated pte with
do_anonymous_page().

Let's change page fault handler to use do_anonymous_page() only on
anonymous VMA (-&gt;vm_ops == NULL) and make sure that the VMA is not
shared.

For file mappings without vm_ops-&gt;fault() or shred VMA without vm_ops,
page fault on pte_none() entry would lead to SIGBUS.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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commit 6b7339f4c31ad69c8e9c0b2859276e22cf72176d upstream.

Reading page fault handler code I've noticed that under right
circumstances kernel would map anonymous pages into file mappings: if
the VMA doesn't have vm_ops-&gt;fault() and the VMA wasn't fully populated
on -&gt;mmap(), kernel would handle page fault to not populated pte with
do_anonymous_page().

Let's change page fault handler to use do_anonymous_page() only on
anonymous VMA (-&gt;vm_ops == NULL) and make sure that the VMA is not
shared.

For file mappings without vm_ops-&gt;fault() or shred VMA without vm_ops,
page fault on pte_none() entry would lead to SIGBUS.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/memory_hotplug.c: set zone-&gt;wait_table to null after freeing it</title>
<updated>2015-06-22T23:55:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gu Zheng</name>
<email>guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-10T18:14:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=31c6d4e4ff5061e7be65166bdce7bfa59e3a351c'/>
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commit 85bd839983778fcd0c1c043327b14a046e979b39 upstream.

Izumi found the following oops when hot re-adding a node:

    BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90008963690
    IP: __wake_up_bit+0x20/0x70
    Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
    CPU: 68 PID: 1237 Comm: rs:main Q:Reg Not tainted 4.1.0-rc5 #80
    Hardware name: FUJITSU PRIMEQUEST2800E/SB, BIOS PRIMEQUEST 2000 Series BIOS Version 1.87 04/28/2015
    task: ffff880838df8000 ti: ffff880017b94000 task.ti: ffff880017b94000
    RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff810dff80&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff810dff80&gt;] __wake_up_bit+0x20/0x70
    RSP: 0018:ffff880017b97be8  EFLAGS: 00010246
    RAX: ffffc90008963690 RBX: 00000000003c0000 RCX: 000000000000a4c9
    RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffea101bffd500 RDI: ffffc90008963648
    RBP: ffff880017b97c08 R08: 0000000002000020 R09: 0000000000000000
    R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8a0797c73800
    R13: ffffea101bffd500 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 00000000003c0000
    FS:  00007fcc7ffff700(0000) GS:ffff880874800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
    CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
    CR2: ffffc90008963690 CR3: 0000000836761000 CR4: 00000000001407e0
    Call Trace:
      unlock_page+0x6d/0x70
      generic_write_end+0x53/0xb0
      xfs_vm_write_end+0x29/0x80 [xfs]
      generic_perform_write+0x10a/0x1e0
      xfs_file_buffered_aio_write+0x14d/0x3e0 [xfs]
      xfs_file_write_iter+0x79/0x120 [xfs]
      __vfs_write+0xd4/0x110
      vfs_write+0xac/0x1c0
      SyS_write+0x58/0xd0
      system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x76
    Code: 5d c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 48 83 ec 20 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 45 f8 31 c0 48 8d 47 48 &lt;48&gt; 39 47 48 48 c7 45 e8 00 00 00 00 48 c7 45 f0 00 00 00 00 48
    RIP  [&lt;ffffffff810dff80&gt;] __wake_up_bit+0x20/0x70
     RSP &lt;ffff880017b97be8&gt;
    CR2: ffffc90008963690

Reproduce method (re-add a node)::
  Hot-add nodeA --&gt; remove nodeA --&gt; hot-add nodeA (panic)

This seems an use-after-free problem, and the root cause is
zone-&gt;wait_table was not set to *NULL* after free it in
try_offline_node.

When hot re-add a node, we will reuse the pgdat of it, so does the zone
struct, and when add pages to the target zone, it will init the zone
first (including the wait_table) if the zone is not initialized.  The
judgement of zone initialized is based on zone-&gt;wait_table:

	static inline bool zone_is_initialized(struct zone *zone)
	{
		return !!zone-&gt;wait_table;
	}

so if we do not set the zone-&gt;wait_table to *NULL* after free it, the
memory hotplug routine will skip the init of new zone when hot re-add
the node, and the wait_table still points to the freed memory, then we
will access the invalid address when trying to wake up the waiting
people after the i/o operation with the page is done, such as mentioned
above.

Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng &lt;guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reported-by: Taku Izumi &lt;izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu &lt;isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.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: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 85bd839983778fcd0c1c043327b14a046e979b39 upstream.

Izumi found the following oops when hot re-adding a node:

    BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90008963690
    IP: __wake_up_bit+0x20/0x70
    Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
    CPU: 68 PID: 1237 Comm: rs:main Q:Reg Not tainted 4.1.0-rc5 #80
    Hardware name: FUJITSU PRIMEQUEST2800E/SB, BIOS PRIMEQUEST 2000 Series BIOS Version 1.87 04/28/2015
    task: ffff880838df8000 ti: ffff880017b94000 task.ti: ffff880017b94000
    RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff810dff80&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff810dff80&gt;] __wake_up_bit+0x20/0x70
    RSP: 0018:ffff880017b97be8  EFLAGS: 00010246
    RAX: ffffc90008963690 RBX: 00000000003c0000 RCX: 000000000000a4c9
    RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffea101bffd500 RDI: ffffc90008963648
    RBP: ffff880017b97c08 R08: 0000000002000020 R09: 0000000000000000
    R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8a0797c73800
    R13: ffffea101bffd500 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 00000000003c0000
    FS:  00007fcc7ffff700(0000) GS:ffff880874800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
    CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
    CR2: ffffc90008963690 CR3: 0000000836761000 CR4: 00000000001407e0
    Call Trace:
      unlock_page+0x6d/0x70
      generic_write_end+0x53/0xb0
      xfs_vm_write_end+0x29/0x80 [xfs]
      generic_perform_write+0x10a/0x1e0
      xfs_file_buffered_aio_write+0x14d/0x3e0 [xfs]
      xfs_file_write_iter+0x79/0x120 [xfs]
      __vfs_write+0xd4/0x110
      vfs_write+0xac/0x1c0
      SyS_write+0x58/0xd0
      system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x76
    Code: 5d c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 48 83 ec 20 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 45 f8 31 c0 48 8d 47 48 &lt;48&gt; 39 47 48 48 c7 45 e8 00 00 00 00 48 c7 45 f0 00 00 00 00 48
    RIP  [&lt;ffffffff810dff80&gt;] __wake_up_bit+0x20/0x70
     RSP &lt;ffff880017b97be8&gt;
    CR2: ffffc90008963690

Reproduce method (re-add a node)::
  Hot-add nodeA --&gt; remove nodeA --&gt; hot-add nodeA (panic)

This seems an use-after-free problem, and the root cause is
zone-&gt;wait_table was not set to *NULL* after free it in
try_offline_node.

When hot re-add a node, we will reuse the pgdat of it, so does the zone
struct, and when add pages to the target zone, it will init the zone
first (including the wait_table) if the zone is not initialized.  The
judgement of zone initialized is based on zone-&gt;wait_table:

	static inline bool zone_is_initialized(struct zone *zone)
	{
		return !!zone-&gt;wait_table;
	}

so if we do not set the zone-&gt;wait_table to *NULL* after free it, the
memory hotplug routine will skip the init of new zone when hot re-add
the node, and the wait_table still points to the freed memory, then we
will access the invalid address when trying to wake up the waiting
people after the i/o operation with the page is done, such as mentioned
above.

Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng &lt;guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reported-by: Taku Izumi &lt;izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu &lt;isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.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: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/memory-failure: call shake_page() when error hits thp tail page</title>
<updated>2015-05-17T16:51:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naoya Horiguchi</name>
<email>n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-05T23:23:35+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0073e613da6fb1f39ab75f0373a63ee30d51d635'/>
<id>0073e613da6fb1f39ab75f0373a63ee30d51d635</id>
<content type='text'>
commit 09789e5de18e4e442870b2d700831f5cb802eb05 upstream.

Currently memory_failure() calls shake_page() to sweep pages out from
pcplists only when the victim page is 4kB LRU page or thp head page.
But we should do this for a thp tail page too.

Consider that a memory error hits a thp tail page whose head page is on
a pcplist when memory_failure() runs.  Then, the current kernel skips
shake_pages() part, so hwpoison_user_mappings() returns without calling
split_huge_page() nor try_to_unmap() because PageLRU of the thp head is
still cleared due to the skip of shake_page().

As a result, me_huge_page() runs for the thp, which is broken behavior.

One effect is a leak of the thp.  And another is to fail to isolate the
memory error, so later access to the error address causes another MCE,
which kills the processes which used the thp.

This patch fixes this problem by calling shake_page() for thp tail case.

Fixes: 385de35722c9 ("thp: allow a hwpoisoned head page to be put back to LRU")
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dean Nelson &lt;dnelson@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hidetoshi Seto &lt;seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Jin Dongming &lt;jin.dongming@np.css.fujitsu.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: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 09789e5de18e4e442870b2d700831f5cb802eb05 upstream.

Currently memory_failure() calls shake_page() to sweep pages out from
pcplists only when the victim page is 4kB LRU page or thp head page.
But we should do this for a thp tail page too.

Consider that a memory error hits a thp tail page whose head page is on
a pcplist when memory_failure() runs.  Then, the current kernel skips
shake_pages() part, so hwpoison_user_mappings() returns without calling
split_huge_page() nor try_to_unmap() because PageLRU of the thp head is
still cleared due to the skip of shake_page().

As a result, me_huge_page() runs for the thp, which is broken behavior.

One effect is a leak of the thp.  And another is to fail to isolate the
memory error, so later access to the error address causes another MCE,
which kills the processes which used the thp.

This patch fixes this problem by calling shake_page() for thp tail case.

Fixes: 385de35722c9 ("thp: allow a hwpoisoned head page to be put back to LRU")
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dean Nelson &lt;dnelson@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hidetoshi Seto &lt;seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Jin Dongming &lt;jin.dongming@np.css.fujitsu.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: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vm: make stack guard page errors return VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV rather than SIGBUS</title>
<updated>2015-04-29T08:34:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-29T19:15:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1f74b26b0f118db0e658cbef2816d11d5ae0242c'/>
<id>1f74b26b0f118db0e658cbef2816d11d5ae0242c</id>
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commit 9c145c56d0c8a0b62e48c8d71e055ad0fb2012ba upstream.

The stack guard page error case has long incorrectly caused a SIGBUS
rather than a SIGSEGV, but nobody actually noticed until commit
fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error from stack expansion even for guard
page") because that error case was never actually triggered in any
normal situations.

Now that we actually report the error, people noticed the wrong signal
that resulted.  So far, only the test suite of libsigsegv seems to have
actually cared, but there are real applications that use libsigsegv, so
let's not wait for any of those to break.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@inai.de&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 9c145c56d0c8a0b62e48c8d71e055ad0fb2012ba upstream.

The stack guard page error case has long incorrectly caused a SIGBUS
rather than a SIGSEGV, but nobody actually noticed until commit
fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error from stack expansion even for guard
page") because that error case was never actually triggered in any
normal situations.

Now that we actually report the error, people noticed the wrong signal
that resulted.  So far, only the test suite of libsigsegv seems to have
actually cared, but there are real applications that use libsigsegv, so
let's not wait for any of those to break.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@inai.de&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support</title>
<updated>2015-04-29T08:34:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-29T18:51:32+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0c42d1fbb33f7e3fc97a4854e1f9804951ebdd0d'/>
<id>0c42d1fbb33f7e3fc97a4854e1f9804951ebdd0d</id>
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commit 33692f27597fcab536d7cbbcc8f52905133e4aa7 upstream.

The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a
"you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally
handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler.

That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault
handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do
retries etc" - but it generally works.  However, there are cases where
the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV.

In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a
SIGSEGV.  And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by
that duplicated architecture fault handler.

However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return
from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error
from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the
existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space.  And user space really
expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS.

To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those
duplicate architecture fault handlers about it.  They all already have
the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return
value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying.

This is the mindless minimal patch to do this.  A more extensive patch
would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into
one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that
cleanup.

Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just
copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in
the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM
semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other
"newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those
improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about
them too.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@inai.de&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[shengyong: Backport to 3.10
 - adjust context
 - ignore modification for arch nios2, because 3.10 does not support it
 - ignore modification for driver lustre, because 3.10 does not support it
 - ignore VM_FAULT_FALLBACK in VM_FAULT_ERROR, becase 3.10 does not support
   this flag
 - add SIGSEGV handling to powerpc/cell spu_fault.c, because 3.10 does not
   separate it to copro_fault.c
 - add SIGSEGV handling in mm/memory.c, because 3.10 does not separate it
   to gup.c
]
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yong &lt;shengyong1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 33692f27597fcab536d7cbbcc8f52905133e4aa7 upstream.

The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a
"you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally
handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler.

That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault
handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do
retries etc" - but it generally works.  However, there are cases where
the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV.

In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a
SIGSEGV.  And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by
that duplicated architecture fault handler.

However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return
from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error
from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the
existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space.  And user space really
expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS.

To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those
duplicate architecture fault handlers about it.  They all already have
the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return
value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying.

This is the mindless minimal patch to do this.  A more extensive patch
would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into
one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that
cleanup.

Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just
copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in
the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM
semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other
"newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those
improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about
them too.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt &lt;jengelh@inai.de&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[shengyong: Backport to 3.10
 - adjust context
 - ignore modification for arch nios2, because 3.10 does not support it
 - ignore modification for driver lustre, because 3.10 does not support it
 - ignore VM_FAULT_FALLBACK in VM_FAULT_ERROR, becase 3.10 does not support
   this flag
 - add SIGSEGV handling to powerpc/cell spu_fault.c, because 3.10 does not
   separate it to copro_fault.c
 - add SIGSEGV handling in mm/memory.c, because 3.10 does not separate it
   to gup.c
]
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yong &lt;shengyong1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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