linux-stable.git/mm, branch v3.4.67

mm: do not grow the stack vma just because of an overrun on preceding vma

2013-10-22T08:02:25+00:00

commit 09884964335e85e897876d17783c2ad33cf8a2e0 upstream.

The stack vma is designed to grow automatically (marked with VM_GROWSUP
or VM_GROWSDOWN depending on architecture) when an access is made beyond
the existing boundary.  However, particularly if you have not limited
your stack at all ("ulimit -s unlimited"), this can cause the stack to
grow even if the access was really just one past *another* segment.

And that's wrong, especially since we first grow the segment, but then
immediately later enforce the stack guard page on the last page of the
segment.  So _despite_ first growing the stack segment as a result of
the access, the kernel will then make the access cause a SIGSEGV anyway!

So do the same logic as the guard page check does, and consider an
access to within one page of the next segment to be a bad access, rather
than growing the stack to abut the next segment.

Reported-and-tested-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Xishi Qiu 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/mmap: check for RLIMIT_AS before unmapping

2013-10-22T08:02:25+00:00

commit e8420a8ece80b3fe810415ecf061d54ca7fab266 upstream.

Fix a corner case for MAP_FIXED when requested mapping length is larger
than rlimit for virtual memory.  In such case any overlapping mappings
are unmapped before we check for the limit and return ENOMEM.

The check is moved before the loop that unmaps overlapping parts of
existing mappings.  When we are about to hit the limit (currently mapped
pages + len > limit) we scan for overlapping pages and check again
accounting for them.

This fixes situation when userspace program expects that the previous
mappings are preserved after the mmap() syscall has returned with error.
(POSIX clearly states that successfull mapping shall replace any
previous mappings.)

This corner case was found and can be tested with LTP testcase:

testcases/open_posix_testsuite/conformance/interfaces/mmap/24-2.c

In this case the mmap, which is clearly over current limit, unmaps
dynamic libraries and the testcase segfaults right after returning into
userspace.

I've also looked at the second instance of the unmapping loop in the
do_brk().  The do_brk() is called from brk() syscall and from vm_brk().
The brk() syscall checks for overlapping mappings and bails out when
there are any (so it can't be triggered from the brk syscall).  The
vm_brk() is called only from binmft handlers so it shouldn't be
triggered unless binmft handler created overlapping mappings.

Signed-off-by: Cyril Hrubis 
Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman 
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Xishi Qiu 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm, show_mem: suppress page counts in non-blockable contexts

2013-10-13T22:42:49+00:00

commit 4b59e6c4730978679b414a8da61514a2518da512 upstream.

On large systems with a lot of memory, walking all RAM to determine page
types may take a half second or even more.

In non-blockable contexts, the page allocator will emit a page allocation
failure warning unless __GFP_NOWARN is specified.  In such contexts, irqs
are typically disabled and such a lengthy delay may even result in NMI
watchdog timeouts.

To fix this, suppress the page walk in such contexts when printing the
page allocation failure warning.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Xishi Qiu 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm, memcg: give exiting processes access to memory reserves

2013-10-05T14:06:54+00:00

commit 465adcf1ea7b2e49b2e0899366624f5532b64012

A memcg may livelock when oom if the process that grabs the hierarchy's
oom lock is never the first process with PF_EXITING set in the memcg's
task iteration.

The oom killer, both global and memcg, will defer if it finds an
eligible process that is in the process of exiting and it is not being
ptraced.  The idea is to allow it to exit without using memory reserves
before needlessly killing another process.

This normally works fine except in the memcg case with a large number of
threads attached to the oom memcg.  In this case, the memcg oom killer
only gets called for the process that grabs the hierarchy's oom lock;
all others end up blocked on the memcg's oom waitqueue.  Thus, if the
process that grabs the hierarchy's oom lock is never the first
PF_EXITING process in the memcg's task iteration, the oom killer is
constantly deferred without anything making progress.

The fix is to give PF_EXITING processes access to memory reserves so
that we've marked them as oom killed without any iteration.  This allows
__mem_cgroup_try_charge() to succeed so that the process may exit.  This
makes the memcg oom killer exemption for TIF_MEMDIE tasks, now
immediately granted for processes with pending SIGKILLs and those in the
exit path, to be equivalent to what is done for the global oom killer.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
[Qiang: backported to 3.4:
 - move the changes from memcontrol.c to oom_kill.c]
Signed-off-by: Qiang Huang 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/huge_memory.c: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

2013-09-27T00:15:51+00:00

commit a8f531ebc33052642b4bd7b812eedf397108ce64 upstream.

In collapse_huge_page() there is a race window between releasing the
mmap_sem read lock and taking the mmap_sem write lock, so find_vma() may
return NULL.  So check the return value to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

collapse_huge_page
	khugepaged_alloc_page
		up_read(&mm->mmap_sem)
	down_write(&mm->mmap_sem)
	vma = find_vma(mm, address)

Signed-off-by: Libin 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li 
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

memcg: fix multiple large threshold notifications

2013-09-27T00:15:50+00:00

commit 2bff24a3707093c435ab3241c47dcdb5f16e432b upstream.

A memory cgroup with (1) multiple threshold notifications and (2) at least
one threshold >=2G was not reliable.  Specifically the notifications would
either not fire or would not fire in the proper order.

The __mem_cgroup_threshold() signaling logic depends on keeping 64 bit
thresholds in sorted order.  mem_cgroup_usage_register_event() sorts them
with compare_thresholds(), which returns the difference of two 64 bit
thresholds as an int.  If the difference is positive but has bit[31] set,
then sort() treats the difference as negative and breaks sort order.

This fix compares the two arbitrary 64 bit thresholds returning the
classic -1, 0, 1 result.

The test below sets two notifications (at 0x1000 and 0x81001000):
  cd /sys/fs/cgroup/memory
  mkdir x
  for x in 4096 2164264960; do
    cgroup_event_listener x/memory.usage_in_bytes $x | sed "s/^/$x listener:/" &
  done
  echo $$ > x/cgroup.procs
  anon_leaker 500M

v3.11-rc7 fails to signal the 4096 event listener:
  Leaking...
  Done leaking pages.

Patched v3.11-rc7 properly notifies:
  Leaking...
  4096 listener:2013:8:31:14:13:36
  Done leaking pages.

The fixed bug is old.  It appears to date back to the introduction of
memcg threshold notifications in v2.6.34-rc1-116-g2e72b6347c94 "memcg:
implement memory thresholds"

Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

futex: Take hugepages into account when generating futex_key

2013-08-20T15:26:28+00:00

commit 13d60f4b6ab5b702dc8d2ee20999f98a93728aec upstream.

The futex_keys of process shared futexes are generated from the page
offset, the mapping host and the mapping index of the futex user space
address. This should result in an unique identifier for each futex.

Though this is not true when futexes are located in different subpages
of an hugepage. The reason is, that the mapping index for all those
futexes evaluates to the index of the base page of the hugetlbfs
mapping. So a futex at offset 0 of the hugepage mapping and another
one at offset PAGE_SIZE of the same hugepage mapping have identical
futex_keys. This happens because the futex code blindly uses
page->index.

Steps to reproduce the bug:

1. Map a file from hugetlbfs. Initialize pthread_mutex1 at offset 0
   and pthread_mutex2 at offset PAGE_SIZE of the hugetlbfs
   mapping.

   The mutexes must be initialized as PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED because
   PTHREAD_PROCESS_PRIVATE mutexes are not affected by this issue as
   their keys solely depend on the user space address.

2. Lock mutex1 and mutex2

3. Create thread1 and in the thread function lock mutex1, which
   results in thread1 blocking on the locked mutex1.

4. Create thread2 and in the thread function lock mutex2, which
   results in thread2 blocking on the locked mutex2.

5. Unlock mutex2. Despite the fact that mutex2 got unlocked, thread2
   still blocks on mutex2 because the futex_key points to mutex1.

To solve this issue we need to take the normal page index of the page
which contains the futex into account, if the futex is in an hugetlbfs
mapping. In other words, we calculate the normal page mapping index of
the subpage in the hugetlbfs mapping.

Mappings which are not based on hugetlbfs are not affected and still
use page->index.

Thanks to Mel Gorman who provided a patch for adding proper evaluation
functions to the hugetlbfs code to avoid exposing hugetlbfs specific
details to the futex code.

[ tglx: Massaged changelog ]

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi 
Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao 
Tested-by: Ma Chenggong 
Reviewed-by: 'Mel Gorman' 
Acked-by: 'Darren Hart' 
Cc: 'Peter Zijlstra' 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/000101ce71a6%24a83c5880%24f8b50980%24@com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vm: add no-mmu vm_iomap_memory() stub

2013-08-20T15:26:27+00:00

commit 3c0b9de6d37a481673e81001c57ca0e410c72346 upstream.

I think we could just move the full vm_iomap_memory() function into
util.h or similar, but I didn't get any reply from anybody actually
using nommu even to this trivial patch, so I'm not going to touch it any
more than required.

Here's the fairly minimal stub to make the nommu case at least
potentially work.  It doesn't seem like anybody cares, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Guenter Roeck 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/memory-hotplug: fix lowmem count overflow when offline pages

2013-08-04T08:26:07+00:00

commit cea27eb2a202959783f81254c48c250ddd80e129 upstream.

The logic for the memory-remove code fails to correctly account the
Total High Memory when a memory block which contains High Memory is
offlined as shown in the example below.  The following patch fixes it.

Before logic memory remove:

MemTotal:        7603740 kB
MemFree:         6329612 kB
Buffers:           94352 kB
Cached:           872008 kB
SwapCached:            0 kB
Active:           626932 kB
Inactive:         519216 kB
Active(anon):     180776 kB
Inactive(anon):   222944 kB
Active(file):     446156 kB
Inactive(file):   296272 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
HighTotal:       7294672 kB
HighFree:        5704696 kB
LowTotal:         309068 kB
LowFree:          624916 kB

After logic memory remove:

MemTotal:        7079452 kB
MemFree:         5805976 kB
Buffers:           94372 kB
Cached:           872000 kB
SwapCached:            0 kB
Active:           626936 kB
Inactive:         519236 kB
Active(anon):     180780 kB
Inactive(anon):   222944 kB
Active(file):     446156 kB
Inactive(file):   296292 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
HighTotal:       7294672 kB
HighFree:        5181024 kB
LowTotal:       4294752076 kB
LowFree:          624952 kB

[mhocko@suse.cz: fix CONFIG_HIGHMEM=n build]
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li 
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: 	[2.6.24+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Zhouping Liu 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: migration: add migrate_entry_wait_huge()

2013-06-20T18:58:46+00:00

commit 30dad30922ccc733cfdbfe232090cf674dc374dc upstream.

When we have a page fault for the address which is backed by a hugepage
under migration, the kernel can't wait correctly and do busy looping on
hugepage fault until the migration finishes.  As a result, users who try
to kick hugepage migration (via soft offlining, for example) occasionally
experience long delay or soft lockup.

This is because pte_offset_map_lock() can't get a correct migration entry
or a correct page table lock for hugepage.  This patch introduces
migration_entry_wait_huge() to solve this.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel 
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li 
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman