From: Hugh Dickins Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:15:03 +0000 (-0800) Subject: tmpfs: fix shmem_getpage_gfp() VM_BUG_ON X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=215c02bc33bbd5ff4d7379a909462d11f0103218;p=GitHub%2Fmoto-9609%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git tmpfs: fix shmem_getpage_gfp() VM_BUG_ON Fuzzing with trinity hit the "impossible" VM_BUG_ON(error) (which Fedora has converted to WARNING) in shmem_getpage_gfp(): WARNING: at mm/shmem.c:1151 shmem_getpage_gfp+0xa5c/0xa70() Pid: 29795, comm: trinity-child4 Not tainted 3.7.0-rc2+ #49 Call Trace: warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 shmem_getpage_gfp+0xa5c/0xa70 shmem_fault+0x4f/0xa0 __do_fault+0x71/0x5c0 handle_pte_fault+0x97/0xae0 handle_mm_fault+0x289/0x350 __do_page_fault+0x18e/0x530 do_page_fault+0x2b/0x50 page_fault+0x28/0x30 tracesys+0xe1/0xe6 Thanks to Johannes for pointing to truncation: free_swap_and_cache() only does a trylock on the page, so the page lock we've held since before confirming swap is not enough to protect against truncation. What cleanup is needed in this case? Just delete_from_swap_cache(), which takes care of the memcg uncharge. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Reported-by: Dave Jones Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index 67afba5117f2..dc12264f44f5 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -1145,8 +1145,20 @@ repeat: if (!error) { error = shmem_add_to_page_cache(page, mapping, index, gfp, swp_to_radix_entry(swap)); - /* We already confirmed swap, and make no allocation */ - VM_BUG_ON(error); + /* + * We already confirmed swap under page lock, and make + * no memory allocation here, so usually no possibility + * of error; but free_swap_and_cache() only trylocks a + * page, so it is just possible that the entry has been + * truncated or holepunched since swap was confirmed. + * shmem_undo_range() will have done some of the + * unaccounting, now delete_from_swap_cache() will do + * the rest (including mem_cgroup_uncharge_swapcache). + * Reset swap.val? No, leave it so "failed" goes back to + * "repeat": reading a hole and writing should succeed. + */ + if (error) + delete_from_swap_cache(page); } if (error) goto failed;