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hugetlb: fix infinite loop in get_futex_key() when backed by huge pages

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If a futex key happens to be located within a huge page mapped
MAP_PRIVATE, get_futex_key() can go into an infinite loop waiting for a
page->mapping that will never exist.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552257 for more details
about the problem.

This patch makes page->mapping a poisoned value that includes
PAGE_MAPPING_ANON mapped MAP_PRIVATE.  This is enough for futex to
continue but because of PAGE_MAPPING_ANON, the poisoned value is not
dereferenced or used by futex.  No other part of the VM should be
dereferencing the page->mapping of a hugetlbfs page as its page cache is
not on the LRU.

This patch fixes the problem with the test case described in the bugzilla.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: mel cant spel]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman 2010-04-23 13:17:56 -04:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 9a6a1ecd9e
commit 23be7468e8
2 changed files with 13 additions and 1 deletions
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include/linux/poison.h
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@ -48,6 +48,15 @@
#define POISON_FREE 0x6b /* for use-after-free poisoning */
#define POISON_END 0xa5 /* end-byte of poisoning */
/********** mm/hugetlb.c **********/
/*
* Private mappings of hugetlb pages use this poisoned value for
* page->mapping. The core VM should not be doing anything with this mapping
* but futex requires the existence of some page->mapping value even though it
* is unused if PAGE_MAPPING_ANON is set.
*/
#define HUGETLB_POISON ((void *)(0x00300300 + POISON_POINTER_DELTA + PAGE_MAPPING_ANON))
/********** arch/$ARCH/mm/init.c **********/
#define POISON_FREE_INITMEM 0xcc

5
mm/hugetlb.c
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@ -546,6 +546,7 @@ static void free_huge_page(struct page *page)
mapping = (struct address_space *) page_private(page);
set_page_private(page, 0);
page->mapping = NULL;
BUG_ON(page_count(page));
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&page->lru);
@ -2447,8 +2448,10 @@ static int hugetlb_no_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
inode->i_blocks += blocks_per_huge_page(h);
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
} else
} else {
lock_page(page);
page->mapping = HUGETLB_POISON;
}
}
/*