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authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>2014-03-04 03:38:18 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-03-04 19:55:47 +0400
commit668f9abbd4334e6c29fa8acd71635c4f9101caa7 (patch)
tree7060fc64f0164c4936b92f60569e63fcddfdfc51 /drivers/vfio
parentaa15aa0e869cb218f68faff8f229fa6b6b5cdf08 (diff)
downloadlinux-668f9abbd4334e6c29fa8acd71635c4f9101caa7.tar.xz
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/vfio')
-rw-r--r--drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
index 4fb7a8f83c8a..54af4e933695 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
@@ -186,12 +186,12 @@ static bool is_invalid_reserved_pfn(unsigned long pfn)
if (pfn_valid(pfn)) {
bool reserved;
struct page *tail = pfn_to_page(pfn);
- struct page *head = compound_trans_head(tail);
+ struct page *head = compound_head(tail);
reserved = !!(PageReserved(head));
if (head != tail) {
/*
* "head" is not a dangling pointer
- * (compound_trans_head takes care of that)
+ * (compound_head takes care of that)
* but the hugepage may have been split
* from under us (and we may not hold a
* reference count on the head page so it can