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<title>mm: fix data corruption due to stale mmap reads</title>
<updated>2017-05-20T12:49:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
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<published>2017-05-12T22:46:50+00:00</published>
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commit cd656375f94632d7b5af57bf67b7b5c0270c591c upstream.

Currently, we didn't invalidate page tables during invalidate_inode_pages2()
for DAX.  That could result in e.g. 2MiB zero page being mapped into
page tables while there were already underlying blocks allocated and
thus data seen through mmap were different from data seen by read(2).
The following sequence reproduces the problem:

 - open an mmap over a 2MiB hole

 - read from a 2MiB hole, faulting in a 2MiB zero page

 - write to the hole with write(3p). The write succeeds but we
   incorrectly leave the 2MiB zero page mapping intact.

 - via the mmap, read the data that was just written. Since the zero
   page mapping is still intact we read back zeroes instead of the new
   data.

Fix the problem by unconditionally calling invalidate_inode_pages2_range()
in dax_iomap_actor() for new block allocations and by properly
invalidating page tables in invalidate_inode_pages2_range() for DAX
mappings.

Fixes: c6dcf52c23d2d3fb5235cec42d7dd3f786b87d55
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170510085419.27601-3-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.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 cd656375f94632d7b5af57bf67b7b5c0270c591c upstream.

Currently, we didn't invalidate page tables during invalidate_inode_pages2()
for DAX.  That could result in e.g. 2MiB zero page being mapped into
page tables while there were already underlying blocks allocated and
thus data seen through mmap were different from data seen by read(2).
The following sequence reproduces the problem:

 - open an mmap over a 2MiB hole

 - read from a 2MiB hole, faulting in a 2MiB zero page

 - write to the hole with write(3p). The write succeeds but we
   incorrectly leave the 2MiB zero page mapping intact.

 - via the mmap, read the data that was just written. Since the zero
   page mapping is still intact we read back zeroes instead of the new
   data.

Fix the problem by unconditionally calling invalidate_inode_pages2_range()
in dax_iomap_actor() for new block allocations and by properly
invalidating page tables in invalidate_inode_pages2_range() for DAX
mappings.

Fixes: c6dcf52c23d2d3fb5235cec42d7dd3f786b87d55
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170510085419.27601-3-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.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>dax: prevent invalidation of mapped DAX entries</title>
<updated>2017-05-20T12:49:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ross Zwisler</name>
<email>ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-12T22:46:47+00:00</published>
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commit 4636e70bb0a8b871998b6841a2e4b205cf2bc863 upstream.

Patch series "mm,dax: Fix data corruption due to mmap inconsistency",
v4.

This series fixes data corruption that can happen for DAX mounts when
page faults race with write(2) and as a result page tables get out of
sync with block mappings in the filesystem and thus data seen through
mmap is different from data seen through read(2).

The series passes testing with t_mmap_stale test program from Ross and
also other mmap related tests on DAX filesystem.

This patch (of 4):

dax_invalidate_mapping_entry() currently removes DAX exceptional entries
only if they are clean and unlocked.  This is done via:

  invalidate_mapping_pages()
    invalidate_exceptional_entry()
      dax_invalidate_mapping_entry()

However, for page cache pages removed in invalidate_mapping_pages()
there is an additional criteria which is that the page must not be
mapped.  This is noted in the comments above invalidate_mapping_pages()
and is checked in invalidate_inode_page().

For DAX entries this means that we can can end up in a situation where a
DAX exceptional entry, either a huge zero page or a regular DAX entry,
could end up mapped but without an associated radix tree entry.  This is
inconsistent with the rest of the DAX code and with what happens in the
page cache case.

We aren't able to unmap the DAX exceptional entry because according to
its comments invalidate_mapping_pages() isn't allowed to block, and
unmap_mapping_range() takes a write lock on the mapping-&gt;i_mmap_rwsem.

Since we essentially never have unmapped DAX entries to evict from the
radix tree, just remove dax_invalidate_mapping_entry().

Fixes: c6dcf52c23d2 ("mm: Invalidate DAX radix tree entries only if appropriate")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170510085419.27601-2-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reported-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.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 4636e70bb0a8b871998b6841a2e4b205cf2bc863 upstream.

Patch series "mm,dax: Fix data corruption due to mmap inconsistency",
v4.

This series fixes data corruption that can happen for DAX mounts when
page faults race with write(2) and as a result page tables get out of
sync with block mappings in the filesystem and thus data seen through
mmap is different from data seen through read(2).

The series passes testing with t_mmap_stale test program from Ross and
also other mmap related tests on DAX filesystem.

This patch (of 4):

dax_invalidate_mapping_entry() currently removes DAX exceptional entries
only if they are clean and unlocked.  This is done via:

  invalidate_mapping_pages()
    invalidate_exceptional_entry()
      dax_invalidate_mapping_entry()

However, for page cache pages removed in invalidate_mapping_pages()
there is an additional criteria which is that the page must not be
mapped.  This is noted in the comments above invalidate_mapping_pages()
and is checked in invalidate_inode_page().

For DAX entries this means that we can can end up in a situation where a
DAX exceptional entry, either a huge zero page or a regular DAX entry,
could end up mapped but without an associated radix tree entry.  This is
inconsistent with the rest of the DAX code and with what happens in the
page cache case.

We aren't able to unmap the DAX exceptional entry because according to
its comments invalidate_mapping_pages() isn't allowed to block, and
unmap_mapping_range() takes a write lock on the mapping-&gt;i_mmap_rwsem.

Since we essentially never have unmapped DAX entries to evict from the
radix tree, just remove dax_invalidate_mapping_entry().

Fixes: c6dcf52c23d2 ("mm: Invalidate DAX radix tree entries only if appropriate")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170510085419.27601-2-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reported-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.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: prevent potential recursive reclaim due to clearing PF_MEMALLOC</title>
<updated>2017-05-20T12:49:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vlastimil Babka</name>
<email>vbabka@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-08T22:59:46+00:00</published>
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commit 62be1511b1db8066220b18b7d4da2e6b9fdc69fb upstream.

Patch series "more robust PF_MEMALLOC handling"

This series aims to unify the setting and clearing of PF_MEMALLOC, which
prevents recursive reclaim.  There are some places that clear the flag
unconditionally from current-&gt;flags, which may result in clearing a
pre-existing flag.  This already resulted in a bug report that Patch 1
fixes (without the new helpers, to make backporting easier).  Patch 2
introduces the new helpers, modelled after existing memalloc_noio_* and
memalloc_nofs_* helpers, and converts mm core to use them.  Patches 3
and 4 convert non-mm code.

This patch (of 4):

__alloc_pages_direct_compact() sets PF_MEMALLOC to prevent deadlock
during page migration by lock_page() (see the comment in
__unmap_and_move()).  Then it unconditionally clears the flag, which can
clear a pre-existing PF_MEMALLOC flag and result in recursive reclaim.
This was not a problem until commit a8161d1ed609 ("mm, page_alloc:
restructure direct compaction handling in slowpath"), because direct
compation was called only after direct reclaim, which was skipped when
PF_MEMALLOC flag was set.

Even now it's only a theoretical issue, as the new callsite of
__alloc_pages_direct_compact() is reached only for costly orders and
when gfp_pfmemalloc_allowed() is true, which means either
__GFP_NOMEMALLOC is in gfp_flags or in_interrupt() is true.  There is no
such known context, but let's play it safe and make
__alloc_pages_direct_compact() robust for cases where PF_MEMALLOC is
already set.

Fixes: a8161d1ed609 ("mm, page_alloc: restructure direct compaction handling in slowpath")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170405074700.29871-2-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hillf Danton &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Boris Brezillon &lt;boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Leech &lt;cleech@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Duncan &lt;lduncan@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&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 62be1511b1db8066220b18b7d4da2e6b9fdc69fb upstream.

Patch series "more robust PF_MEMALLOC handling"

This series aims to unify the setting and clearing of PF_MEMALLOC, which
prevents recursive reclaim.  There are some places that clear the flag
unconditionally from current-&gt;flags, which may result in clearing a
pre-existing flag.  This already resulted in a bug report that Patch 1
fixes (without the new helpers, to make backporting easier).  Patch 2
introduces the new helpers, modelled after existing memalloc_noio_* and
memalloc_nofs_* helpers, and converts mm core to use them.  Patches 3
and 4 convert non-mm code.

This patch (of 4):

__alloc_pages_direct_compact() sets PF_MEMALLOC to prevent deadlock
during page migration by lock_page() (see the comment in
__unmap_and_move()).  Then it unconditionally clears the flag, which can
clear a pre-existing PF_MEMALLOC flag and result in recursive reclaim.
This was not a problem until commit a8161d1ed609 ("mm, page_alloc:
restructure direct compaction handling in slowpath"), because direct
compation was called only after direct reclaim, which was skipped when
PF_MEMALLOC flag was set.

Even now it's only a theoretical issue, as the new callsite of
__alloc_pages_direct_compact() is reached only for costly orders and
when gfp_pfmemalloc_allowed() is true, which means either
__GFP_NOMEMALLOC is in gfp_flags or in_interrupt() is true.  There is no
such known context, but let's play it safe and make
__alloc_pages_direct_compact() robust for cases where PF_MEMALLOC is
already set.

Fixes: a8161d1ed609 ("mm, page_alloc: restructure direct compaction handling in slowpath")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170405074700.29871-2-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hillf Danton &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Boris Brezillon &lt;boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Leech &lt;cleech@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Duncan &lt;lduncan@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&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: fix IO/refault regression in cache workingset transition</title>
<updated>2017-05-20T12:49:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-03T21:55:03+00:00</published>
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commit 2a2e48854d704214dac7546e87ae0e4daa0e61a0 upstream.

Since commit 59dc76b0d4df ("mm: vmscan: reduce size of inactive file
list") we noticed bigger IO spikes during changes in cache access
patterns.

The patch in question shrunk the inactive list size to leave more room
for the current workingset in the presence of streaming IO.  However,
workingset transitions that previously happened on the inactive list are
now pushed out of memory and incur more refaults to complete.

This patch disables active list protection when refaults are being
observed.  This accelerates workingset transitions, and allows more of
the new set to establish itself from memory, without eating into the
ability to protect the established workingset during stable periods.

The workloads that were measurably affected for us were hit pretty bad
by it, with refault/majfault rates doubling and tripling during cache
transitions, and the machines sustaining half-hour periods of 100% IO
utilization, where they'd previously have sub-minute peaks at 60-90%.

Stateful services that handle user data tend to be more conservative
with kernel upgrades.  As a result we hit most page cache issues with
some delay, as was the case here.

The severity seemed to warrant a stable tag.

Fixes: 59dc76b0d4df ("mm: vmscan: reduce size of inactive file list")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170404220052.27593-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov.dev@gmail.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 2a2e48854d704214dac7546e87ae0e4daa0e61a0 upstream.

Since commit 59dc76b0d4df ("mm: vmscan: reduce size of inactive file
list") we noticed bigger IO spikes during changes in cache access
patterns.

The patch in question shrunk the inactive list size to leave more room
for the current workingset in the presence of streaming IO.  However,
workingset transitions that previously happened on the inactive list are
now pushed out of memory and incur more refaults to complete.

This patch disables active list protection when refaults are being
observed.  This accelerates workingset transitions, and allows more of
the new set to establish itself from memory, without eating into the
ability to protect the established workingset during stable periods.

The workloads that were measurably affected for us were hit pretty bad
by it, with refault/majfault rates doubling and tripling during cache
transitions, and the machines sustaining half-hour periods of 100% IO
utilization, where they'd previously have sub-minute peaks at 60-90%.

Stateful services that handle user data tend to be more conservative
with kernel upgrades.  As a result we hit most page cache issues with
some delay, as was the case here.

The severity seemed to warrant a stable tag.

Fixes: 59dc76b0d4df ("mm: vmscan: reduce size of inactive file list")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170404220052.27593-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov.dev@gmail.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>fs: fix data invalidation in the cleancache during direct IO</title>
<updated>2017-05-20T12:49:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Ryabinin</name>
<email>aryabinin@virtuozzo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-03T21:55:59+00:00</published>
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commit 55635ba76ef91f26b418702ace5e6287eb727f6a upstream.

Patch series "Properly invalidate data in the cleancache", v2.

We've noticed that after direct IO write, buffered read sometimes gets
stale data which is coming from the cleancache.  The reason for this is
that some direct write hooks call call invalidate_inode_pages2[_range]()
conditionally iff mapping-&gt;nrpages is not zero, so we may not invalidate
data in the cleancache.

Another odd thing is that we check only for -&gt;nrpages and don't check
for -&gt;nrexceptional, but invalidate_inode_pages2[_range] also
invalidates exceptional entries as well.  So we invalidate exceptional
entries only if -&gt;nrpages != 0? This doesn't feel right.

 - Patch 1 fixes direct IO writes by removing -&gt;nrpages check.
 - Patch 2 fixes similar case in invalidate_bdev().
     Note: I only fixed conditional cleancache_invalidate_inode() here.
       Do we also need to add -&gt;nrexceptional check in into invalidate_bdev()?

 - Patches 3-4: some optimizations.

This patch (of 4):

Some direct IO write fs hooks call invalidate_inode_pages2[_range]()
conditionally iff mapping-&gt;nrpages is not zero.  This can't be right,
because invalidate_inode_pages2[_range]() also invalidate data in the
cleancache via cleancache_invalidate_inode() call.  So if page cache is
empty but there is some data in the cleancache, buffered read after
direct IO write would get stale data from the cleancache.

Also it doesn't feel right to check only for -&gt;nrpages because
invalidate_inode_pages2[_range] invalidates exceptional entries as well.

Fix this by calling invalidate_inode_pages2[_range]() regardless of
nrpages state.

Note: nfs,cifs,9p doesn't need similar fix because the never call
cleancache_get_page() (nor directly, nor via mpage_readpage[s]()), so
they are not affected by this bug.

Fixes: c515e1fd361c ("mm/fs: add hooks to support cleancache")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170424164135.22350-2-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov &lt;kuznet@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Nikolay Borisov &lt;n.borisov.lkml@gmail.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 55635ba76ef91f26b418702ace5e6287eb727f6a upstream.

Patch series "Properly invalidate data in the cleancache", v2.

We've noticed that after direct IO write, buffered read sometimes gets
stale data which is coming from the cleancache.  The reason for this is
that some direct write hooks call call invalidate_inode_pages2[_range]()
conditionally iff mapping-&gt;nrpages is not zero, so we may not invalidate
data in the cleancache.

Another odd thing is that we check only for -&gt;nrpages and don't check
for -&gt;nrexceptional, but invalidate_inode_pages2[_range] also
invalidates exceptional entries as well.  So we invalidate exceptional
entries only if -&gt;nrpages != 0? This doesn't feel right.

 - Patch 1 fixes direct IO writes by removing -&gt;nrpages check.
 - Patch 2 fixes similar case in invalidate_bdev().
     Note: I only fixed conditional cleancache_invalidate_inode() here.
       Do we also need to add -&gt;nrexceptional check in into invalidate_bdev()?

 - Patches 3-4: some optimizations.

This patch (of 4):

Some direct IO write fs hooks call invalidate_inode_pages2[_range]()
conditionally iff mapping-&gt;nrpages is not zero.  This can't be right,
because invalidate_inode_pages2[_range]() also invalidate data in the
cleancache via cleancache_invalidate_inode() call.  So if page cache is
empty but there is some data in the cleancache, buffered read after
direct IO write would get stale data from the cleancache.

Also it doesn't feel right to check only for -&gt;nrpages because
invalidate_inode_pages2[_range] invalidates exceptional entries as well.

Fix this by calling invalidate_inode_pages2[_range]() regardless of
nrpages state.

Note: nfs,cifs,9p doesn't need similar fix because the never call
cleancache_get_page() (nor directly, nor via mpage_readpage[s]()), so
they are not affected by this bug.

Fixes: c515e1fd361c ("mm/fs: add hooks to support cleancache")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170424164135.22350-2-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov &lt;kuznet@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Nikolay Borisov &lt;n.borisov.lkml@gmail.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: prevent NR_ISOLATE_* stats from going negative</title>
<updated>2017-04-20T22:30:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rabin Vincent</name>
<email>rabinv@axis.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-20T21:37:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=fc280fe871449ead4bdbd1665fa52c7c01c64765'/>
<id>fc280fe871449ead4bdbd1665fa52c7c01c64765</id>
<content type='text'>
Commit 6afcf8ef0ca0 ("mm, compaction: fix NR_ISOLATED_* stats for pfn
based migration") moved the dec_node_page_state() call (along with the
page_is_file_cache() call) to after putback_lru_page().

But page_is_file_cache() can change after putback_lru_page() is called,
so it should be called before putback_lru_page(), as it was before that
patch, to prevent NR_ISOLATE_* stats from going negative.

Without this fix, non-CONFIG_SMP kernels end up hanging in the
while(too_many_isolated()) { congestion_wait() } loop in
shrink_active_list() due to the negative stats.

 Mem-Info:
  active_anon:32567 inactive_anon:121 isolated_anon:1
  active_file:6066 inactive_file:6639 isolated_file:4294967295
                                                    ^^^^^^^^^^
  unevictable:0 dirty:115 writeback:0 unstable:0
  slab_reclaimable:2086 slab_unreclaimable:3167
  mapped:3398 shmem:18366 pagetables:1145 bounce:0
  free:1798 free_pcp:13 free_cma:0

Fixes: 6afcf8ef0ca0 ("mm, compaction: fix NR_ISOLATED_* stats for pfn based migration")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1492683865-27549-1-git-send-email-rabin.vincent@axis.com
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent &lt;rabinv@axis.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Ming Ling &lt;ming.ling@spreadtrum.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.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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Commit 6afcf8ef0ca0 ("mm, compaction: fix NR_ISOLATED_* stats for pfn
based migration") moved the dec_node_page_state() call (along with the
page_is_file_cache() call) to after putback_lru_page().

But page_is_file_cache() can change after putback_lru_page() is called,
so it should be called before putback_lru_page(), as it was before that
patch, to prevent NR_ISOLATE_* stats from going negative.

Without this fix, non-CONFIG_SMP kernels end up hanging in the
while(too_many_isolated()) { congestion_wait() } loop in
shrink_active_list() due to the negative stats.

 Mem-Info:
  active_anon:32567 inactive_anon:121 isolated_anon:1
  active_file:6066 inactive_file:6639 isolated_file:4294967295
                                                    ^^^^^^^^^^
  unevictable:0 dirty:115 writeback:0 unstable:0
  slab_reclaimable:2086 slab_unreclaimable:3167
  mapped:3398 shmem:18366 pagetables:1145 bounce:0
  free:1798 free_pcp:13 free_cma:0

Fixes: 6afcf8ef0ca0 ("mm, compaction: fix NR_ISOLATED_* stats for pfn based migration")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1492683865-27549-1-git-send-email-rabin.vincent@axis.com
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent &lt;rabinv@axis.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Ming Ling &lt;ming.ling@spreadtrum.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "mm, page_alloc: only use per-cpu allocator for irq-safe requests"</title>
<updated>2017-04-20T22:30:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@techsingularity.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-20T21:37:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d34b0733b452ca3ef1dee36436dab08b8aa6a85c'/>
<id>d34b0733b452ca3ef1dee36436dab08b8aa6a85c</id>
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This reverts commit 374ad05ab64.

While the patch worked great for userspace allocations, the fact that
softirq loses the per-cpu allocator caused problems.  It needs to be
redone taking into account that a separate list is needed for hard/soft
IRQs or alternatively find a cheap way of detecting reentry due to an
interrupt.  Both are possible but sufficiently tricky that it shouldn't
be rushed.

Jesper had one method for allowing softirqs but reported that the cost
was high enough that it performed similarly to a plain revert.  His
figures for netperf TCP_STREAM were as follows

  Baseline v4.10.0  : 60316 Mbit/s
  Current 4.11.0-rc6: 47491 Mbit/s
  Jesper's patch    : 60662 Mbit/s
  This patch        : 60106 Mbit/s

As this is a regression, I wish to revert to noirq allocator for now and
go back to the drawing board.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170415145350.ixy7vtrzdzve57mh@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Reported-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;ttoukan.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer &lt;brouer@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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This reverts commit 374ad05ab64.

While the patch worked great for userspace allocations, the fact that
softirq loses the per-cpu allocator caused problems.  It needs to be
redone taking into account that a separate list is needed for hard/soft
IRQs or alternatively find a cheap way of detecting reentry due to an
interrupt.  Both are possible but sufficiently tricky that it shouldn't
be rushed.

Jesper had one method for allowing softirqs but reported that the cost
was high enough that it performed similarly to a plain revert.  His
figures for netperf TCP_STREAM were as follows

  Baseline v4.10.0  : 60316 Mbit/s
  Current 4.11.0-rc6: 47491 Mbit/s
  Jesper's patch    : 60662 Mbit/s
  This patch        : 60106 Mbit/s

As this is a regression, I wish to revert to noirq allocator for now and
go back to the drawing board.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170415145350.ixy7vtrzdzve57mh@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Reported-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;ttoukan.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer &lt;brouer@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;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: make mm_percpu_wq non freezable</title>
<updated>2017-04-19T22:53:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-19T07:52:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=80d136e138f59de35aafb0440e8ab2f51c40ccd5'/>
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<content type='text'>
Geert has reported a freeze during PM resume and some additional
debugging has shown that the device_resume worker cannot make a forward
progress because it waits for an event which is stuck waiting in
drain_all_pages:

  INFO: task kworker/u4:0:5 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
        Not tainted 4.11.0-rc7-koelsch-00029-g005882e53d62f25d-dirty #3476
  "echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
  kworker/u4:0    D    0     5      2 0x00000000
  Workqueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn
    __schedule
    schedule
    schedule_timeout
    wait_for_common
    dpm_wait_for_superior
    device_resume
    async_resume
    async_run_entry_fn
    process_one_work
    worker_thread
    kthread
  [...]
  bash            D    0  1703   1694 0x00000000
    __schedule
    schedule
    schedule_timeout
    wait_for_common
    flush_work
    drain_all_pages
    start_isolate_page_range
    alloc_contig_range
    cma_alloc
    __alloc_from_contiguous
    cma_allocator_alloc
    __dma_alloc
    arm_dma_alloc
    sh_eth_ring_init
    sh_eth_open
    sh_eth_resume
    dpm_run_callback
    device_resume
    dpm_resume
    dpm_resume_end
    suspend_devices_and_enter
    pm_suspend
    state_store
    kernfs_fop_write
    __vfs_write
    vfs_write
    SyS_write
  [...]
  Showing busy workqueues and worker pools:
  [...]
  workqueue mm_percpu_wq: flags=0xc
    pwq 2: cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=0/0
      delayed: drain_local_pages_wq, vmstat_update
    pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=0/0
      delayed: drain_local_pages_wq BAR(1703), vmstat_update

Tetsuo has properly noted that mm_percpu_wq is created as WQ_FREEZABLE
so it is frozen this early during resume so we are effectively
deadlocked.  Fix this by dropping WQ_FREEZABLE when creating
mm_percpu_wq.  We really want to have it operational all the time.

Fixes: ce612879ddc7 ("mm: move pcp and lru-pcp draining into single wq")
Reported-and-tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Debugged-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Geert has reported a freeze during PM resume and some additional
debugging has shown that the device_resume worker cannot make a forward
progress because it waits for an event which is stuck waiting in
drain_all_pages:

  INFO: task kworker/u4:0:5 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
        Not tainted 4.11.0-rc7-koelsch-00029-g005882e53d62f25d-dirty #3476
  "echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
  kworker/u4:0    D    0     5      2 0x00000000
  Workqueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn
    __schedule
    schedule
    schedule_timeout
    wait_for_common
    dpm_wait_for_superior
    device_resume
    async_resume
    async_run_entry_fn
    process_one_work
    worker_thread
    kthread
  [...]
  bash            D    0  1703   1694 0x00000000
    __schedule
    schedule
    schedule_timeout
    wait_for_common
    flush_work
    drain_all_pages
    start_isolate_page_range
    alloc_contig_range
    cma_alloc
    __alloc_from_contiguous
    cma_allocator_alloc
    __dma_alloc
    arm_dma_alloc
    sh_eth_ring_init
    sh_eth_open
    sh_eth_resume
    dpm_run_callback
    device_resume
    dpm_resume
    dpm_resume_end
    suspend_devices_and_enter
    pm_suspend
    state_store
    kernfs_fop_write
    __vfs_write
    vfs_write
    SyS_write
  [...]
  Showing busy workqueues and worker pools:
  [...]
  workqueue mm_percpu_wq: flags=0xc
    pwq 2: cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=0/0
      delayed: drain_local_pages_wq, vmstat_update
    pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=0/0
      delayed: drain_local_pages_wq BAR(1703), vmstat_update

Tetsuo has properly noted that mm_percpu_wq is created as WQ_FREEZABLE
so it is frozen this early during resume so we are effectively
deadlocked.  Fix this by dropping WQ_FREEZABLE when creating
mm_percpu_wq.  We really want to have it operational all the time.

Fixes: ce612879ddc7 ("mm: move pcp and lru-pcp draining into single wq")
Reported-and-tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Debugged-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>zsmalloc: expand class bit</title>
<updated>2017-04-14T01:24:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Minchan Kim</name>
<email>minchan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-13T21:56:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=85d492f28d056c40629fc25d79f54da618a29dc4'/>
<id>85d492f28d056c40629fc25d79f54da618a29dc4</id>
<content type='text'>
Now 64K page system, zsamlloc has 257 classes so 8 class bit is not
enough.  With that, it corrupts the system when zsmalloc stores
65536byte data(ie, index number 256) so that this patch increases class
bit for simple fix for stable backport.  We should clean up this mess
soon.

  index	size
  0	32
  1	288
  ..
  ..
  204	52256
  256	65536

Fixes: 3783689a1 ("zsmalloc: introduce zspage structure")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1492042622-12074-3-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.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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Now 64K page system, zsamlloc has 257 classes so 8 class bit is not
enough.  With that, it corrupts the system when zsmalloc stores
65536byte data(ie, index number 256) so that this patch increases class
bit for simple fix for stable backport.  We should clean up this mess
soon.

  index	size
  0	32
  1	288
  ..
  ..
  204	52256
  256	65536

Fixes: 3783689a1 ("zsmalloc: introduce zspage structure")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1492042622-12074-3-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>thp: fix MADV_DONTNEED vs. MADV_FREE race</title>
<updated>2017-04-14T01:24:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-13T21:56:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=58ceeb6bec86d9140f9d91d71a710e963523d063'/>
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Both MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE handled with down_read(mmap_sem).

It's critical to not clear pmd intermittently while handling MADV_FREE
to avoid race with MADV_DONTNEED:

	CPU0:				CPU1:
				madvise_free_huge_pmd()
				 pmdp_huge_get_and_clear_full()
madvise_dontneed()
 zap_pmd_range()
  pmd_trans_huge(*pmd) == 0 (without ptl)
  // skip the pmd
				 set_pmd_at();
				 // pmd is re-established

It results in MADV_DONTNEED skipping the pmd, leaving it not cleared.
It violates MADV_DONTNEED interface and can result is userspace
misbehaviour.

Basically it's the same race as with numa balancing in
change_huge_pmd(), but a bit simpler to mitigate: we don't need to
preserve dirty/young flags here due to MADV_FREE functionality.

[kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com: Urgh... Power is special again]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170303102636.bhd2zhtpds4mt62a@black.fi.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170302151034.27829-4-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.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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Both MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE handled with down_read(mmap_sem).

It's critical to not clear pmd intermittently while handling MADV_FREE
to avoid race with MADV_DONTNEED:

	CPU0:				CPU1:
				madvise_free_huge_pmd()
				 pmdp_huge_get_and_clear_full()
madvise_dontneed()
 zap_pmd_range()
  pmd_trans_huge(*pmd) == 0 (without ptl)
  // skip the pmd
				 set_pmd_at();
				 // pmd is re-established

It results in MADV_DONTNEED skipping the pmd, leaving it not cleared.
It violates MADV_DONTNEED interface and can result is userspace
misbehaviour.

Basically it's the same race as with numa balancing in
change_huge_pmd(), but a bit simpler to mitigate: we don't need to
preserve dirty/young flags here due to MADV_FREE functionality.

[kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com: Urgh... Power is special again]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170303102636.bhd2zhtpds4mt62a@black.fi.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170302151034.27829-4-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&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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</content>
</entry>
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