linux.git/mm/migrate.c, branch v4.13

Sanitize 'move_pages()' permission checks

2017-08-20T20:26:27+00:00

The 'move_paghes()' system call was introduced long long ago with the
same permission checks as for sending a signal (except using
CAP_SYS_NICE instead of CAP_SYS_KILL for the overriding capability).

That turns out to not be a great choice - while the system call really
only moves physical page allocations around (and you need other
capabilities to do a lot of it), you can check the return value to map
out some the virtual address choices and defeat ASLR of a binary that
still shares your uid.

So change the access checks to the more common 'ptrace_may_access()'
model instead.

This tightens the access checks for the uid, and also effectively
changes the CAP_SYS_NICE check to CAP_SYS_PTRACE, but it's unlikely that
anybody really _uses_ this legacy system call any more (we hav ebetter
NUMA placement models these days), so I expect nobody to notice.

Famous last words.

Reported-by: Otto Ebeling 
Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: Willy Tarreau 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Revert "mm: numa: defer TLB flush for THP migration as long as possible"

2017-08-10T22:54:07+00:00

While deferring TLB flushes is a good practice, the reverted patch
caused pending TLB flushes to be checked while the page-table lock is
not taken.  As a result, in architectures with weak memory model (PPC),
Linux may miss a memory-barrier, miss the fact TLB flushes are pending,
and cause (in theory) a memory corruption.

Since the alternative of using smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() was
considered a bit open-coded, and the performance impact is expected to
be small, the previous patch is reverted.

This reverts b0943d61b8fa ("mm: numa: defer TLB flush for THP migration
as long as possible").

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170802000818.4760-4-namit@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit 
Suggested-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Nadav Amit 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/migrate.c: stabilise page count when migrating transparent hugepages

2017-07-10T23:32:31+00:00

When migrating a transparent hugepage, migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page
guards itself against a concurrent fastgup of the page by checking that
the page count is equal to 2 before and after installing the new pmd.

If the page count changes, then the pmd is reverted back to the original
entry, however there is a small window where the new (possibly writable)
pmd is installed and the underlying page could be written by userspace.
Restoring the old pmd could therefore result in loss of data.

This patch fixes the problem by freezing the page count whilst updating
the page tables, which protects against a concurrent fastgup without the
need to restore the old pmd in the failure case (since the page count
can no longer change under our feet).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1497349722-6731-4-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Steve Capper 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: hugetlb: soft-offline: dissolve source hugepage after successful migration

2017-07-10T23:32:30+00:00

Currently hugepage migrated by soft-offline (i.e.  due to correctable
memory errors) is contained as a hugepage, which means many non-error
pages in it are unreusable, i.e.  wasted.

This patch solves this issue by dissolving source hugepages into buddy.
As done in previous patch, PageHWPoison is set only on a head page of
the error hugepage.  Then in dissoliving we move the PageHWPoison flag
to the raw error page so that all healthy subpages return back to buddy.

[arnd@arndb.de: fix warnings: replace some macros with inline functions]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170609102544.2947326-1-arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496305019-5493-5-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual 
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/hugetlb/migration: use set_huge_pte_at instead of set_pte_at

2017-07-06T23:24:33+00:00

Patch series "HugeTLB migration support for PPC64", v2.

This patch (of 9):

The right interface to use to set a hugetlb pte entry is set_huge_pte_at.
Use that instead of set_pte_at.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1494926612-23928-2-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V 
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Anshuman Khandual 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Mike Kravetz 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: make rmap_one boolean function

2017-05-03T22:52:10+00:00

rmap_one's return value controls whether rmap_work should contine to
scan other ptes or not so it's target for changing to boolean.  Return
true if the scan should be continued.  Otherwise, return false to stop
the scanning.

This patch makes rmap_one's return value to boolean.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1489555493-14659-10-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Anshuman Khandual 
Cc: Hillf Danton 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: don't assume anonymous pages have SwapBacked flag

2017-05-03T22:52:08+00:00

There are a few places the code assumes anonymous pages should have
SwapBacked flag set.  MADV_FREE pages are anonymous pages but we are
going to add them to LRU_INACTIVE_FILE list and clear SwapBacked flag
for them.  The assumption doesn't hold any more, so fix them.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3945232c0df3dd6c4ef001976f35a95f18dcb407.1487965799.git.shli@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Hillf Danton 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove unnecessary reclaimability check from NUMA balancing target

2017-05-03T22:52:07+00:00

NUMA balancing already checks the watermarks of the target node to
decide whether it's a suitable balancing target.  Whether the node is
reclaimable or not is irrelevant when we don't intend to reclaim.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170228214007.5621-5-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Hillf Danton 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Jia He 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: prevent NR_ISOLATE_* stats from going negative

2017-04-20T22:30:18+00:00

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 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Ming Ling 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: migrate: fix remove_migration_pte() for ksm pages

2017-04-01T00:13:30+00:00

I found that calling page migration for ksm pages causes the following
bug:

    page:ffffea0004d51180 count:2 mapcount:2 mapping:ffff88013c785141 index:0x913
    flags: 0x57ffffc0040068(uptodate|lru|active|swapbacked)
    raw: 0057ffffc0040068 ffff88013c785141 0000000000000913 0000000200000001
    raw: ffffea0004d5f9e0 ffffea0004d53f60 0000000000000000 ffff88007d81b800
    page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page))
    page->mem_cgroup:ffff88007d81b800
    ------------[ cut here ]------------
    kernel BUG at /src/linux-dev/mm/rmap.c:1086!
    invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
    Modules linked in: ppdev parport_pc virtio_balloon i2c_piix4 pcspkr parport i2c_core acpi_cpufreq ip_tables xfs libcrc32c ata_generic pata_acpi ata_piix 8139too libata virtio_blk 8139cp crc32c_intel mii virtio_pci virtio_ring serio_raw virtio floppy dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod
    CPU: 0 PID: 3162 Comm: bash Not tainted 4.11.0-rc2-mm1+ #1
    Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 0.5.1 01/01/2011
    RIP: 0010:do_page_add_anon_rmap+0x1ba/0x260
    RSP: 0018:ffffc90002473b30 EFLAGS: 00010282
    RAX: 0000000000000021 RBX: ffffea0004d51180 RCX: 0000000000000006
    RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000082 RDI: ffff88007dc0dfe0
    RBP: ffffc90002473b58 R08: 00000000fffffffe R09: 00000000000001c1
    R10: 0000000000000005 R11: 00000000000001c0 R12: ffff880139ab3d80
    R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000700000000200 R15: 0000160000000000
    FS:  00007f5195f50740(0000) GS:ffff88007dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
    CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
    CR2: 00007fd450287000 CR3: 000000007a08e000 CR4: 00000000001406f0
    Call Trace:
     page_add_anon_rmap+0x18/0x20
     remove_migration_pte+0x220/0x2c0
     rmap_walk_ksm+0x143/0x220
     rmap_walk+0x55/0x60
     remove_migration_ptes+0x53/0x80
     migrate_pages+0x8ed/0xb60
     soft_offline_page+0x309/0x8d0
     store_soft_offline_page+0xaf/0xf0
     dev_attr_store+0x18/0x30
     sysfs_kf_write+0x3a/0x50
     kernfs_fop_write+0xff/0x180
     __vfs_write+0x37/0x160
     vfs_write+0xb2/0x1b0
     SyS_write+0x55/0xc0
     do_syscall_64+0x67/0x180
     entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
    RIP: 0033:0x7f51956339e0
    RSP: 002b:00007ffcfa0dffc8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
    RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000000c RCX: 00007f51956339e0
    RDX: 000000000000000c RSI: 00007f5195f53000 RDI: 0000000000000001
    RBP: 00007f5195f53000 R08: 000000000000000a R09: 00007f5195f50740
    R10: 000000000000000b R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f5195907400
    R13: 000000000000000c R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000000
    Code: fe ff ff 48 81 c2 00 02 00 00 48 89 55 d8 e8 2e c3 fd ff 48 8b 55 d8 e9 42 ff ff ff 48 c7 c6 e0 52 a1 81 48 89 df e8 46 ad fe ff <0f> 0b 48 83 e8 01 e9 7f fe ff ff 48 83 e8 01 e9 96 fe ff ff 48
    RIP: do_page_add_anon_rmap+0x1ba/0x260 RSP: ffffc90002473b30
    ---[ end trace a679d00f4af2df48 ]---
    Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
    Kernel Offset: disabled
    ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

The problem is in the following lines:

    new = page - pvmw.page->index +
        linear_page_index(vma, pvmw.address);

The 'new' is calculated with 'page' which is given by the caller as a
destination page and some offset adjustment for thp.  But this doesn't
properly work for ksm pages because pvmw.page->index doesn't change for
each address but linear_page_index() changes, which means that 'new'
points to different pages for each addresses backed by the ksm page.  As
a result, we try to set totally unrelated pages as destination pages,
and that causes kernel crash.

This patch fixes the miscalculation and makes ksm page migration work
fine.

Fixes: 3fe87967c536 ("mm: convert remove_migration_pte() to use page_vma_mapped_walk()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1489717683-29905-1-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Hillf Danton 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds