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author | chenjie <chenjie6@huawei.com> | 2017-11-29 16:10:54 -0800 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2017-12-05 11:22:50 +0100 |
commit | 0d05a5593f6309cb0df0df474a807a3220855703 (patch) | |
tree | 08188fa6dbd92ea7b6f8e68988817578805bf886 /mm/madvise.c | |
parent | 2b7ef6bdd28610f2907cd766362cf95d0d023801 (diff) |
mm/madvise.c: fix madvise() infinite loop under special circumstances
commit 6ea8d958a2c95a1d514015d4e29ba21a8c0a1a91 upstream.
MADVISE_WILLNEED has always been a noop for DAX (formerly XIP) mappings.
Unfortunately madvise_willneed() doesn't communicate this information
properly to the generic madvise syscall implementation. The calling
convention is quite subtle there. madvise_vma() is supposed to either
return an error or update &prev otherwise the main loop will never
advance to the next vma and it will keep looping for ever without a way
to get out of the kernel.
It seems this has been broken since introduction. Nobody has noticed
because nobody seems to be using MADVISE_WILLNEED on these DAX mappings.
[mhocko@suse.com: rewrite changelog]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171127115318.911-1-guoxuenan@huawei.com
Fixes: fe77ba6f4f97 ("[PATCH] xip: madvice/fadvice: execute in place")
Signed-off-by: chenjie <chenjie6@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: guoxuenan <guoxuenan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaoxie@huawei.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/madvise.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/madvise.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c index c889fcbb530e..2a0f9a4504f1 100644 --- a/mm/madvise.c +++ b/mm/madvise.c @@ -223,15 +223,14 @@ static long madvise_willneed(struct vm_area_struct *vma, { struct file *file = vma->vm_file; + *prev = vma; #ifdef CONFIG_SWAP if (!file) { - *prev = vma; force_swapin_readahead(vma, start, end); return 0; } if (shmem_mapping(file->f_mapping)) { - *prev = vma; force_shm_swapin_readahead(vma, start, end, file->f_mapping); return 0; @@ -246,7 +245,6 @@ static long madvise_willneed(struct vm_area_struct *vma, return 0; } - *prev = vma; start = ((start - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT) + vma->vm_pgoff; if (end > vma->vm_end) end = vma->vm_end; |