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mm/hugetlb.c: fix reservation race when freeing surplus pages
authorMike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Wed, 11 Jan 2017 00:58:27 +0000 (16:58 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 11 Jan 2017 02:31:55 +0000 (18:31 -0800)
commit30fc3a48e6b3bf6485bf4edd9384029e4b9e56a9
tree58e7d4ea6950878eb4c23d31e68b0c2f96db6f7e
parentc028b19ef0789f3146dd773f31495c52f47bfbb1
mm/hugetlb.c: fix reservation race when freeing surplus pages

return_unused_surplus_pages() decrements the global reservation count,
and frees any unused surplus pages that were backing the reservation.

Commit f468a4488e18 ("mm/hugetlb.c: add cond_resched_lock() in
return_unused_surplus_pages()") added a call to cond_resched_lock in the
loop freeing the pages.

As a result, the hugetlb_lock could be dropped, and someone else could
use the pages that will be freed in subsequent iterations of the loop.
This could result in inconsistent global hugetlb page state, application
api failures (such as mmap) failures or application crashes.

When dropping the lock in return_unused_surplus_pages, make sure that
the global reservation count (resv_huge_pages) remains sufficiently
large to prevent someone else from claiming pages about to be freed.

Analyzed by Paul Cassella.

Fixes: f468a4488e18 ("mm/hugetlb.c: add cond_resched_lock() in return_unused_surplus_pages()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483991767-6879-1-git-send-email-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Paul Cassella <cassella@cray.com>
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.15+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/hugetlb.c