linux-stable.git/mm, branch v4.9.9

mm, fs: check for fatal signals in do_generic_file_read()

2017-02-09T07:08:28+00:00

commit 5abf186a30a89d5b9c18a6bf93a2c192c9fd52f6 upstream.

do_generic_file_read() can be told to perform a large request from
userspace.  If the system is under OOM and the reading task is the OOM
victim then it has an access to memory reserves and finishing the full
request can lead to the full memory depletion which is dangerous.  Make
sure we rather go with a short read and allow the killed task to
terminate.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170201092706.9966-3-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Tetsuo Handa 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

base/memory, hotplug: fix a kernel oops in show_valid_zones()

2017-02-09T07:08:28+00:00

commit a96dfddbcc04336bbed50dc2b24823e45e09e80c upstream.

Reading a sysfs "memoryN/valid_zones" file leads to the following oops
when the first page of a range is not backed by struct page.
show_valid_zones() assumes that 'start_pfn' is always valid for
page_zone().

 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffea017a000000
 IP: show_valid_zones+0x6f/0x160

This issue may happen on x86-64 systems with 64GiB or more memory since
their memory block size is bumped up to 2GiB.  [1] An example of such
systems is desribed below.  0x3240000000 is only aligned by 1GiB and
this memory block starts from 0x3200000000, which is not backed by
struct page.

 BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000003240000000-0x000000603fffffff] usable

Since test_pages_in_a_zone() already checks holes, fix this issue by
extending this function to return 'valid_start' and 'valid_end' for a
given range.  show_valid_zones() then proceeds with the valid range.

[1] 'Commit bdee237c0343 ("x86: mm: Use 2GB memory block size on
    large-memory x86-64 systems")'

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170127222149.30893-3-toshi.kani@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Zhang Zhen 
Cc: Reza Arbab 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/memory_hotplug.c: check start_pfn in test_pages_in_a_zone()

2017-02-09T07:08:27+00:00

commit deb88a2a19e85842d79ba96b05031739ec327ff4 upstream.

Patch series "fix a kernel oops when reading sysfs valid_zones", v2.

A sysfs memory file is created for each 2GiB memory block on x86-64 when
the system has 64GiB or more memory.  [1] When the start address of a
memory block is not backed by struct page, i.e.  a memory range is not
aligned by 2GiB, reading its 'valid_zones' attribute file leads to a
kernel oops.  This issue was observed on multiple x86-64 systems with
more than 64GiB of memory.  This patch-set fixes this issue.

Patch 1 first fixes an issue in test_pages_in_a_zone(), which does not
test the start section.

Patch 2 then fixes the kernel oops by extending test_pages_in_a_zone()
to return valid [start, end).

Note for stable kernels: The memory block size change was made by commit
bdee237c0343 ("x86: mm: Use 2GB memory block size on large-memory x86-64
systems"), which was accepted to 3.9.  However, this patch-set depends
on (and fixes) the change to test_pages_in_a_zone() made by commit
5f0f2887f4de ("mm/memory_hotplug.c: check for missing sections in
test_pages_in_a_zone()"), which was accepted to 4.4.

So, I recommend that we backport it up to 4.4.

[1] 'Commit bdee237c0343 ("x86: mm: Use 2GB memory block size on
    large-memory x86-64 systems")'

This patch (of 2):

test_pages_in_a_zone() does not check 'start_pfn' when it is aligned by
section since 'sec_end_pfn' is set equal to 'pfn'.  Since this function
is called for testing the range of a sysfs memory file, 'start_pfn' is
always aligned by section.

Fix it by properly setting 'sec_end_pfn' to the next section pfn.

Also make sure that this function returns 1 only when the range belongs
to a zone.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170127222149.30893-2-toshi.kani@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani 
Cc: Andrew Banman 
Cc: Reza Arbab 
Cc: Greg KH 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

zswap: disable changing params if init fails

2017-02-09T07:08:27+00:00

commit d7b028f56a971a2e4d8d7887540a144eeefcd4ab upstream.

Add zswap_init_failed bool that prevents changing any of the module
params, if init_zswap() fails, and set zswap_enabled to false.  Change
'enabled' param to a callback, and check zswap_init_failed before
allowing any change to 'enabled', 'zpool', or 'compressor' params.

Any driver that is built-in to the kernel will not be unloaded if its
init function returns error, and its module params remain accessible for
users to change via sysfs.  Since zswap uses param callbacks, which
assume that zswap has been initialized, changing the zswap params after
a failed initialization will result in WARNING due to the param
callbacks expecting a pool to already exist.  This prevents that by
immediately exiting any of the param callbacks if initialization failed.

This was reported here:
  https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=147004228125528&w=4

And fixes this WARNING:
  [  429.723476] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5140 at mm/zswap.c:503 __zswap_pool_current+0x56/0x60

The warning is just noise, and not serious.  However, when init fails,
zswap frees all its percpu dstmem pages and its kmem cache.  The kmem
cache might be serious, if kmem_cache_alloc(NULL, gfp) has problems; but
the percpu dstmem pages are definitely a problem, as they're used as
temporary buffer for compressed pages before copying into place in the
zpool.

If the user does get zswap enabled after an init failure, then zswap
will likely Oops on the first page it tries to compress (or worse, start
corrupting memory).

Fixes: 90b0fc26d5db ("zswap: change zpool/compressor at runtime")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170124200259.16191-2-ddstreet@ieee.org
Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman 
Reported-by: Marcin Miroslaw 
Cc: Seth Jennings 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm, memcg: do not retry precharge charges

2017-02-01T07:33:14+00:00

commit 3674534b775354516e5c148ea48f51d4d1909a78 upstream.

When memory.move_charge_at_immigrate is enabled and precharges are
depleted during move, mem_cgroup_move_charge_pte_range() will attempt to
increase the size of the precharge.

Prevent precharges from ever looping by setting __GFP_NORETRY.  This was
probably the intention of the GFP_KERNEL & ~__GFP_NORETRY, which is
pointless as written.

Fixes: 0029e19ebf84 ("mm: memcontrol: remove explicit OOM parameter in charge path")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1701130208510.69402@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

memory_hotplug: make zone_can_shift() return a boolean value

2017-02-01T07:33:13+00:00

commit 8a1f780e7f28c7c1d640118242cf68d528c456cd upstream.

online_{kernel|movable} is used to change the memory zone to
ZONE_{NORMAL|MOVABLE} and online the memory.

To check that memory zone can be changed, zone_can_shift() is used.
Currently the function returns minus integer value, plus integer
value and 0. When the function returns minus or plus integer value,
it means that the memory zone can be changed to ZONE_{NORNAL|MOVABLE}.

But when the function returns 0, there are two meanings.

One of the meanings is that the memory zone does not need to be changed.
For example, when memory is in ZONE_NORMAL and onlined by online_kernel
the memory zone does not need to be changed.

Another meaning is that the memory zone cannot be changed. When memory
is in ZONE_NORMAL and onlined by online_movable, the memory zone may
not be changed to ZONE_MOVALBE due to memory online limitation(see
Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt). In this case, memory must not be
onlined.

The patch changes the return type of zone_can_shift() so that memory
online operation fails when memory zone cannot be changed as follows:

Before applying patch:
   # grep -A 35 "Node 2" /proc/zoneinfo
   Node 2, zone   Normal
   
      node_scanned  0
           spanned  8388608
           present  7864320
           managed  7864320
   # echo online_movable > memory4097/state
   # grep -A 35 "Node 2" /proc/zoneinfo
   Node 2, zone   Normal
   
      node_scanned  0
           spanned  8388608
           present  8388608
           managed  8388608

   online_movable operation succeeded. But memory is onlined as
   ZONE_NORMAL, not ZONE_MOVABLE.

After applying patch:
   # grep -A 35 "Node 2" /proc/zoneinfo
   Node 2, zone   Normal
   
      node_scanned  0
           spanned  8388608
           present  7864320
           managed  7864320
   # echo online_movable > memory4097/state
   bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
   # grep -A 35 "Node 2" /proc/zoneinfo
   Node 2, zone   Normal
   
      node_scanned  0
           spanned  8388608
           present  7864320
           managed  7864320

   online_movable operation failed because of failure of changing
   the memory zone from ZONE_NORMAL to ZONE_MOVABLE

Fixes: df429ac03936 ("memory-hotplug: more general validation of zone during online")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2f9c3837-33d7-b6e5-59c0-6ca4372b2d84@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu 
Reviewed-by: Reza Arbab 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm, page_alloc: fix premature OOM when racing with cpuset mems update

2017-02-01T07:33:05+00:00

commit e47483bca2cc59a4593b37a270b16ee42b1d9f08 upstream.

Ganapatrao Kulkarni reported that the LTP test cpuset01 in stress mode
triggers OOM killer in few seconds, despite lots of free memory.  The
test attempts to repeatedly fault in memory in one process in a cpuset,
while changing allowed nodes of the cpuset between 0 and 1 in another
process.

The problem comes from insufficient protection against cpuset changes,
which can cause get_page_from_freelist() to consider all zones as
non-eligible due to nodemask and/or current->mems_allowed.  This was
masked in the past by sufficient retries, but since commit 682a3385e773
("mm, page_alloc: inline the fast path of the zonelist iterator") we fix
the preferred_zoneref once, and don't iterate over the whole zonelist in
further attempts, thus the only eligible zones might be placed in the
zonelist before our starting point and we always miss them.

A previous patch fixed this problem for current->mems_allowed.  However,
cpuset changes also update the task's mempolicy nodemask.  The fix has
two parts.  We have to repeat the preferred_zoneref search when we
detect cpuset update by way of seqcount, and we have to check the
seqcount before considering OOM.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo in comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120103843.24587-5-vbabka@suse.cz
Fixes: c33d6c06f60f ("mm, page_alloc: avoid looking up the first zone in a zonelist twice")
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Reported-by: Ganapatrao Kulkarni 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Hillf Danton 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm, page_alloc: move cpuset seqcount checking to slowpath

2017-02-01T07:33:04+00:00

commit 5ce9bfef1d27944c119a397a9d827bef795487ce upstream.

This is a preparation for the following patch to make review simpler.
While the primary motivation is a bug fix, this also simplifies the fast
path, although the moved code is only enabled when cpusets are in use.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120103843.24587-4-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Hillf Danton 
Cc: Ganapatrao Kulkarni 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm, page_alloc: fix fast-path race with cpuset update or removal

2017-02-01T07:33:04+00:00

commit 16096c25bf0ca5d87e4fa6ec6108ba53feead212 upstream.

Ganapatrao Kulkarni reported that the LTP test cpuset01 in stress mode
triggers OOM killer in few seconds, despite lots of free memory.  The
test attempts to repeatedly fault in memory in one process in a cpuset,
while changing allowed nodes of the cpuset between 0 and 1 in another
process.

One possible cause is that in the fast path we find the preferred
zoneref according to current mems_allowed, so that it points to the
middle of the zonelist, skipping e.g.  zones of node 1 completely.  If
the mems_allowed is updated to contain only node 1, we never reach it in
the zonelist, and trigger OOM before checking the cpuset_mems_cookie.

This patch fixes the particular case by redoing the preferred zoneref
search if we switch back to the original nodemask.  The condition is
also slightly changed so that when the last non-root cpuset is removed,
we don't miss it.

Note that this is not a full fix, and more patches will follow.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120103843.24587-3-vbabka@suse.cz
Fixes: 682a3385e773 ("mm, page_alloc: inline the fast path of the zonelist iterator")
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Reported-by: Ganapatrao Kulkarni 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Hillf Danton 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm, page_alloc: fix check for NULL preferred_zone

2017-02-01T07:33:04+00:00

commit ea57485af8f4221312a5a95d63c382b45e7840dc upstream.

Patch series "fix premature OOM regression in 4.7+ due to cpuset races".

This is v2 of my attempt to fix the recent report based on LTP cpuset
stress test [1].  The intention is to go to stable 4.9 LTSS with this,
as triggering repeated OOMs is not nice.  That's why the patches try to
be not too intrusive.

Unfortunately why investigating I found that modifying the testcase to
use per-VMA policies instead of per-task policies will bring the OOM's
back, but that seems to be much older and harder to fix problem.  I have
posted a RFC [2] but I believe that fixing the recent regressions has a
higher priority.

Longer-term we might try to think how to fix the cpuset mess in a better
and less error prone way.  I was for example very surprised to learn,
that cpuset updates change not only task->mems_allowed, but also
nodemask of mempolicies.  Until now I expected the parameter to
alloc_pages_nodemask() to be stable.  I wonder why do we then treat
cpusets specially in get_page_from_freelist() and distinguish HARDWALL
etc, when there's unconditional intersection between mempolicy and
cpuset.  I would expect the nodemask adjustment for saving overhead in
g_p_f(), but that clearly doesn't happen in the current form.  So we
have both crazy complexity and overhead, AFAICS.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAFpQJXUq-JuEP=QPidy4p_=FN0rkH5Z-kfB4qBvsf6jMS87Edg@mail.gmail.com
[2] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7c459f26-13a6-a817-e508-b65b903a8378@suse.cz

This patch (of 4):

Since commit c33d6c06f60f ("mm, page_alloc: avoid looking up the first
zone in a zonelist twice") we have a wrong check for NULL preferred_zone,
which can theoretically happen due to concurrent cpuset modification.  We
check the zoneref pointer which is never NULL and we should check the zone
pointer.  Also document this in first_zones_zonelist() comment per Michal
Hocko.

Fixes: c33d6c06f60f ("mm, page_alloc: avoid looking up the first zone in a zonelist twice")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120103843.24587-2-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Hillf Danton 
Cc: Ganapatrao Kulkarni 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman