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authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>2014-03-03 15:38:18 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-03-04 07:55:47 -0800
commit668f9abbd4334e6c29fa8acd71635c4f9101caa7 (patch)
tree7060fc64f0164c4936b92f60569e63fcddfdfc51 /drivers/block
parentaa15aa0e869cb218f68faff8f229fa6b6b5cdf08 (diff)
mm: close PageTail race
Commit bf6bddf1924e ("mm: introduce compaction and migration for ballooned pages") introduces page_count(page) into memory compaction which dereferences page->first_page if PageTail(page). This results in a very rare NULL pointer dereference on the aforementioned page_count(page). Indeed, anything that does compound_head(), including page_count() is susceptible to racing with prep_compound_page() and seeing a NULL or dangling page->first_page pointer. This patch uses Andrea's implementation of compound_trans_head() that deals with such a race and makes it the default compound_head() implementation. This includes a read memory barrier that ensures that if PageTail(head) is true that we return a head page that is neither NULL nor dangling. The patch then adds a store memory barrier to prep_compound_page() to ensure page->first_page is set. This is the safest way to ensure we see the head page that we are expecting, PageTail(page) is already in the unlikely() path and the memory barriers are unfortunately required. Hugetlbfs is the exception, we don't enforce a store memory barrier during init since no race is possible. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Holger Kiehl <Holger.Kiehl@dwd.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block')
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
index 8184451b57c0..422b7d84f686 100644
--- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
@@ -874,7 +874,7 @@ bio_pageinc(struct bio *bio)
/* Non-zero page count for non-head members of
* compound pages is no longer allowed by the kernel.
*/
- page = compound_trans_head(bv.bv_page);
+ page = compound_head(bv.bv_page);
atomic_inc(&page->_count);
}
}
@@ -887,7 +887,7 @@ bio_pagedec(struct bio *bio)
struct bvec_iter iter;
bio_for_each_segment(bv, bio, iter) {
- page = compound_trans_head(bv.bv_page);
+ page = compound_head(bv.bv_page);
atomic_dec(&page->_count);
}
}