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<title>litmus-rt.git/mm, branch master</title>
<subtitle>The LITMUS^RT kernel.</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Augment rt_task() with is_realtime()</title>
<updated>2015-08-09T11:20:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bjoern Brandenburg</name>
<email>bbb@mpi-sws.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-09T11:18:50+00:00</published>
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Whenever the kernel checks for rt_task() to avoid delaying real-time
tasks, we want it to also not delay LITMUS^RT tasks.  Hence, most
calls to rt_task() should be matched by an equivalent call to
is_realtime().

Notably, this affects the implementations of select() and nanosleep(),
which use timer_slack_ns when setting up timers for non-real-time
tasks.
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Whenever the kernel checks for rt_task() to avoid delaying real-time
tasks, we want it to also not delay LITMUS^RT tasks.  Hence, most
calls to rt_task() should be matched by an equivalent call to
is_realtime().

Notably, this affects the implementations of select() and nanosleep(),
which use timer_slack_ns when setting up timers for non-real-time
tasks.
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, thp: respect MPOL_PREFERRED policy with non-local node</title>
<updated>2015-07-21T17:10:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vlastimil Babka</name>
<email>vbabka@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-24T23:58:48+00:00</published>
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commit 0867a57c4f80a566dda1bac975b42fcd857cb489 upstream.

Since commit 077fcf116c8c ("mm/thp: allocate transparent hugepages on
local node"), we handle THP allocations on page fault in a special way -
for non-interleave memory policies, the allocation is only attempted on
the node local to the current CPU, if the policy's nodemask allows the
node.

This is motivated by the assumption that THP benefits cannot offset the
cost of remote accesses, so it's better to fallback to base pages on the
local node (which might still be available, while huge pages are not due
to fragmentation) than to allocate huge pages on a remote node.

The nodemask check prevents us from violating e.g.  MPOL_BIND policies
where the local node is not among the allowed nodes.  However, the
current implementation can still give surprising results for the
MPOL_PREFERRED policy when the preferred node is different than the
current CPU's local node.

In such case we should honor the preferred node and not use the local
node, which is what this patch does.  If hugepage allocation on the
preferred node fails, we fall back to base pages and don't try other
nodes, with the same motivation as is done for the local node hugepage
allocations.  The patch also moves the MPOL_INTERLEAVE check around to
simplify the hugepage specific test.

The difference can be demonstrated using in-tree transhuge-stress test
on the following 2-node machine where half memory on one node was
occupied to show the difference.

&gt; numactl --hardware
available: 2 nodes (0-1)
node 0 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35
node 0 size: 7878 MB
node 0 free: 3623 MB
node 1 cpus: 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47
node 1 size: 8045 MB
node 1 free: 7818 MB
node distances:
node   0   1
  0:  10  21
  1:  21  10

Before the patch:
&gt; numactl -p0 -C0 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 2.197 s/loop, 0.276 ms/page,   7249.168 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 1786 different pages

&gt; numactl -p0 -C12 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 2.962 s/loop, 0.372 ms/page,   5376.172 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 3873 different pages

Number of successful THP allocations corresponds to free memory on node 0 in
the first case and node 1 in the second case, i.e. -p parameter is ignored and
cpu binding "wins".

After the patch:
&gt; numactl -p0 -C0 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 2.183 s/loop, 0.274 ms/page,   7295.516 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 1760 different pages

&gt; numactl -p0 -C12 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 2.878 s/loop, 0.361 ms/page,   5533.638 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 1750 different pages

&gt; numactl -p1 -C0 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 4.628 s/loop, 0.581 ms/page,   3440.893 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 3918 different pages

The -p parameter is respected regardless of cpu binding.

&gt; numactl -C0 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 2.202 s/loop, 0.277 ms/page,   7230.003 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 1750 different pages

&gt; numactl -C12 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 3.020 s/loop, 0.379 ms/page,   5273.324 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 3916 different pages

Without -p parameter, hugepage restriction to CPU-local node works as before.

Fixes: 077fcf116c8c ("mm/thp: allocate transparent hugepages on local node")
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0867a57c4f80a566dda1bac975b42fcd857cb489 upstream.

Since commit 077fcf116c8c ("mm/thp: allocate transparent hugepages on
local node"), we handle THP allocations on page fault in a special way -
for non-interleave memory policies, the allocation is only attempted on
the node local to the current CPU, if the policy's nodemask allows the
node.

This is motivated by the assumption that THP benefits cannot offset the
cost of remote accesses, so it's better to fallback to base pages on the
local node (which might still be available, while huge pages are not due
to fragmentation) than to allocate huge pages on a remote node.

The nodemask check prevents us from violating e.g.  MPOL_BIND policies
where the local node is not among the allowed nodes.  However, the
current implementation can still give surprising results for the
MPOL_PREFERRED policy when the preferred node is different than the
current CPU's local node.

In such case we should honor the preferred node and not use the local
node, which is what this patch does.  If hugepage allocation on the
preferred node fails, we fall back to base pages and don't try other
nodes, with the same motivation as is done for the local node hugepage
allocations.  The patch also moves the MPOL_INTERLEAVE check around to
simplify the hugepage specific test.

The difference can be demonstrated using in-tree transhuge-stress test
on the following 2-node machine where half memory on one node was
occupied to show the difference.

&gt; numactl --hardware
available: 2 nodes (0-1)
node 0 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35
node 0 size: 7878 MB
node 0 free: 3623 MB
node 1 cpus: 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47
node 1 size: 8045 MB
node 1 free: 7818 MB
node distances:
node   0   1
  0:  10  21
  1:  21  10

Before the patch:
&gt; numactl -p0 -C0 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 2.197 s/loop, 0.276 ms/page,   7249.168 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 1786 different pages

&gt; numactl -p0 -C12 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 2.962 s/loop, 0.372 ms/page,   5376.172 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 3873 different pages

Number of successful THP allocations corresponds to free memory on node 0 in
the first case and node 1 in the second case, i.e. -p parameter is ignored and
cpu binding "wins".

After the patch:
&gt; numactl -p0 -C0 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 2.183 s/loop, 0.274 ms/page,   7295.516 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 1760 different pages

&gt; numactl -p0 -C12 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 2.878 s/loop, 0.361 ms/page,   5533.638 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 1750 different pages

&gt; numactl -p1 -C0 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 4.628 s/loop, 0.581 ms/page,   3440.893 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 3918 different pages

The -p parameter is respected regardless of cpu binding.

&gt; numactl -C0 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 2.202 s/loop, 0.277 ms/page,   7230.003 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 1750 different pages

&gt; numactl -C12 ./transhuge-stress
transhuge-stress: 3.020 s/loop, 0.379 ms/page,   5273.324 MiB/s 7962 succeed,    0 failed, 3916 different pages

Without -p parameter, hugepage restriction to CPU-local node works as before.

Fixes: 077fcf116c8c ("mm/thp: allocate transparent hugepages on local node")
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>mm: kmemleak_alloc_percpu() should follow the gfp from per_alloc()</title>
<updated>2015-07-21T17:10:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Larry Finger</name>
<email>Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-24T23:58:51+00:00</published>
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commit 8a8c35fadfaf55629a37ef1a8ead1b8fb32581d2 upstream.

Beginning at commit d52d3997f843 ("ipv6: Create percpu rt6_info"), the
following INFO splat is logged:

  ===============================
  [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
  4.1.0-rc7-next-20150612 #1 Not tainted
  -------------------------------
  kernel/sched/core.c:7318 Illegal context switch in RCU-bh read-side critical section!
  other info that might help us debug this:
  rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
   3 locks held by systemd/1:
   #0:  (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [&lt;ffffffff815f0c8f&gt;] rtnetlink_rcv+0x1f/0x40
   #1:  (rcu_read_lock_bh){......}, at: [&lt;ffffffff816a34e2&gt;] ipv6_add_addr+0x62/0x540
   #2:  (addrconf_hash_lock){+...+.}, at: [&lt;ffffffff816a3604&gt;] ipv6_add_addr+0x184/0x540
  stack backtrace:
  CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 4.1.0-rc7-next-20150612 #1
  Hardware name: TOSHIBA TECRA A50-A/TECRA A50-A, BIOS Version 4.20   04/17/2014
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x4c/0x6e
    lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xe7/0x120
    ___might_sleep+0x1d5/0x1f0
    __might_sleep+0x4d/0x90
    kmem_cache_alloc+0x47/0x250
    create_object+0x39/0x2e0
    kmemleak_alloc_percpu+0x61/0xe0
    pcpu_alloc+0x370/0x630

Additional backtrace lines are truncated.  In addition, the above splat
is followed by several "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid
context at mm/slub.c:1268" outputs.  As suggested by Martin KaFai Lau,
these are the clue to the fix.  Routine kmemleak_alloc_percpu() always
uses GFP_KERNEL for its allocations, whereas it should follow the gfp
from its callers.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger &lt;Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net&gt;
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 8a8c35fadfaf55629a37ef1a8ead1b8fb32581d2 upstream.

Beginning at commit d52d3997f843 ("ipv6: Create percpu rt6_info"), the
following INFO splat is logged:

  ===============================
  [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
  4.1.0-rc7-next-20150612 #1 Not tainted
  -------------------------------
  kernel/sched/core.c:7318 Illegal context switch in RCU-bh read-side critical section!
  other info that might help us debug this:
  rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
   3 locks held by systemd/1:
   #0:  (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [&lt;ffffffff815f0c8f&gt;] rtnetlink_rcv+0x1f/0x40
   #1:  (rcu_read_lock_bh){......}, at: [&lt;ffffffff816a34e2&gt;] ipv6_add_addr+0x62/0x540
   #2:  (addrconf_hash_lock){+...+.}, at: [&lt;ffffffff816a3604&gt;] ipv6_add_addr+0x184/0x540
  stack backtrace:
  CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 4.1.0-rc7-next-20150612 #1
  Hardware name: TOSHIBA TECRA A50-A/TECRA A50-A, BIOS Version 4.20   04/17/2014
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack+0x4c/0x6e
    lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xe7/0x120
    ___might_sleep+0x1d5/0x1f0
    __might_sleep+0x4d/0x90
    kmem_cache_alloc+0x47/0x250
    create_object+0x39/0x2e0
    kmemleak_alloc_percpu+0x61/0xe0
    pcpu_alloc+0x370/0x630

Additional backtrace lines are truncated.  In addition, the above splat
is followed by several "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid
context at mm/slub.c:1268" outputs.  As suggested by Martin KaFai Lau,
these are the clue to the fix.  Routine kmemleak_alloc_percpu() always
uses GFP_KERNEL for its allocations, whereas it should follow the gfp
from its callers.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger &lt;Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net&gt;
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;kafai@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: kmemleak: allow safe memory scanning during kmemleak disabling</title>
<updated>2015-07-21T17:10:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-24T23:58:26+00:00</published>
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commit c5f3b1a51a591c18c8b33983908e7fdda6ae417e upstream.

The kmemleak scanning thread can run for minutes.  Callbacks like
kmemleak_free() are allowed during this time, the race being taken care
of by the object-&gt;lock spinlock.  Such lock also prevents a memory block
from being freed or unmapped while it is being scanned by blocking the
kmemleak_free() -&gt; ...  -&gt; __delete_object() function until the lock is
released in scan_object().

When a kmemleak error occurs (e.g.  it fails to allocate its metadata),
kmemleak_enabled is set and __delete_object() is no longer called on
freed objects.  If kmemleak_scan is running at the same time,
kmemleak_free() no longer waits for the object scanning to complete,
allowing the corresponding memory block to be freed or unmapped (in the
case of vfree()).  This leads to kmemleak_scan potentially triggering a
page fault.

This patch separates the kmemleak_free() enabling/disabling from the
overall kmemleak_enabled nob so that we can defer the disabling of the
object freeing tracking until the scanning thread completed.  The
kmemleak_free_part() is deliberately ignored by this patch since this is
only called during boot before the scanning thread started.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Vignesh Radhakrishnan &lt;vigneshr@codeaurora.org&gt;
Tested-by: Vignesh Radhakrishnan &lt;vigneshr@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c5f3b1a51a591c18c8b33983908e7fdda6ae417e upstream.

The kmemleak scanning thread can run for minutes.  Callbacks like
kmemleak_free() are allowed during this time, the race being taken care
of by the object-&gt;lock spinlock.  Such lock also prevents a memory block
from being freed or unmapped while it is being scanned by blocking the
kmemleak_free() -&gt; ...  -&gt; __delete_object() function until the lock is
released in scan_object().

When a kmemleak error occurs (e.g.  it fails to allocate its metadata),
kmemleak_enabled is set and __delete_object() is no longer called on
freed objects.  If kmemleak_scan is running at the same time,
kmemleak_free() no longer waits for the object scanning to complete,
allowing the corresponding memory block to be freed or unmapped (in the
case of vfree()).  This leads to kmemleak_scan potentially triggering a
page fault.

This patch separates the kmemleak_free() enabling/disabling from the
overall kmemleak_enabled nob so that we can defer the disabling of the
object freeing tracking until the scanning thread completed.  The
kmemleak_free_part() is deliberately ignored by this patch since this is
only called during boot before the scanning thread started.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Vignesh Radhakrishnan &lt;vigneshr@codeaurora.org&gt;
Tested-by: Vignesh Radhakrishnan &lt;vigneshr@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: shmem_zero_setup skip security check and lockdep conflict with XFS</title>
<updated>2015-06-18T06:40:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hughd@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-14T16:48:09+00:00</published>
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It appears that, at some point last year, XFS made directory handling
changes which bring it into lockdep conflict with shmem_zero_setup():
it is surprising that mmap() can clone an inode while holding mmap_sem,
but that has been so for many years.

Since those few lockdep traces that I've seen all implicated selinux,
I'm hoping that we can use the __shmem_file_setup(,,,S_PRIVATE) which
v3.13's commit c7277090927a ("security: shmem: implement kernel private
shmem inodes") introduced to avoid LSM checks on kernel-internal inodes:
the mmap("/dev/zero") cloned inode is indeed a kernel-internal detail.

This also covers the !CONFIG_SHMEM use of ramfs to support /dev/zero
(and MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS).  I thought there were also drivers
which cloned inode in mmap(), but if so, I cannot locate them now.

Reported-and-tested-by: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Daniel Wagner &lt;wagi@monom.org&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Morten Stevens &lt;mstevens@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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It appears that, at some point last year, XFS made directory handling
changes which bring it into lockdep conflict with shmem_zero_setup():
it is surprising that mmap() can clone an inode while holding mmap_sem,
but that has been so for many years.

Since those few lockdep traces that I've seen all implicated selinux,
I'm hoping that we can use the __shmem_file_setup(,,,S_PRIVATE) which
v3.13's commit c7277090927a ("security: shmem: implement kernel private
shmem inodes") introduced to avoid LSM checks on kernel-internal inodes:
the mmap("/dev/zero") cloned inode is indeed a kernel-internal detail.

This also covers the !CONFIG_SHMEM use of ramfs to support /dev/zero
(and MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS).  I thought there were also drivers
which cloned inode in mmap(), but if so, I cannot locate them now.

Reported-and-tested-by: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Daniel Wagner &lt;wagi@monom.org&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Morten Stevens &lt;mstevens@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>zsmalloc: fix a null pointer dereference in destroy_handle_cache()</title>
<updated>2015-06-10T23:43:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-10T18:14:57+00:00</published>
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If zs_create_pool()-&gt;create_handle_cache()-&gt;kmem_cache_create() or
pool-&gt;name allocation fails, zs_create_pool()-&gt;destroy_handle_cache()
will dereference the NULL pool-&gt;handle_cachep.

Modify destroy_handle_cache() to avoid this.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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If zs_create_pool()-&gt;create_handle_cache()-&gt;kmem_cache_create() or
pool-&gt;name allocation fails, zs_create_pool()-&gt;destroy_handle_cache()
will dereference the NULL pool-&gt;handle_cachep.

Modify destroy_handle_cache() to avoid this.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: memcontrol: fix false-positive VM_BUG_ON() on -rt</title>
<updated>2015-06-10T23:43:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-10T18:14:54+00:00</published>
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On -rt, the VM_BUG_ON(!irqs_disabled()) triggers inside the memcg
swapout path because the spin_lock_irq(&amp;mapping-&gt;tree_lock) in the
caller doesn't actually disable the hardware interrupts - which is fine,
because on -rt the tophalves run in process context and so we are still
safe from preemption while updating the statistics.

Remove the VM_BUG_ON() but keep the comment of what we rely on.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reported-by: Clark Williams &lt;williams@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano &lt;nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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On -rt, the VM_BUG_ON(!irqs_disabled()) triggers inside the memcg
swapout path because the spin_lock_irq(&amp;mapping-&gt;tree_lock) in the
caller doesn't actually disable the hardware interrupts - which is fine,
because on -rt the tophalves run in process context and so we are still
safe from preemption while updating the statistics.

Remove the VM_BUG_ON() but keep the comment of what we rely on.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reported-by: Clark Williams &lt;williams@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano &lt;nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>memcg: do not call reclaim if !__GFP_WAIT</title>
<updated>2015-06-10T23:43:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Davydov</name>
<email>vdavydov@parallels.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-10T18:14:46+00:00</published>
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When trimming memcg consumption excess (see memory.high), we call
try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages without checking if we are allowed to sleep
in the current context, which can result in a deadlock.  Fix this.

Fixes: 241994ed8649 ("mm: memcontrol: default hierarchy interface for memory")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When trimming memcg consumption excess (see memory.high), we call
try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages without checking if we are allowed to sleep
in the current context, which can result in a deadlock.  Fix this.

Fixes: 241994ed8649 ("mm: memcontrol: default hierarchy interface for memory")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm/memory_hotplug.c: set zone-&gt;wait_table to null after freeing it</title>
<updated>2015-06-10T23:43:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gu Zheng</name>
<email>guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-10T18:14:43+00:00</published>
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Izumi found the following oops when hot re-adding a node:

    BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90008963690
    IP: __wake_up_bit+0x20/0x70
    Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
    CPU: 68 PID: 1237 Comm: rs:main Q:Reg Not tainted 4.1.0-rc5 #80
    Hardware name: FUJITSU PRIMEQUEST2800E/SB, BIOS PRIMEQUEST 2000 Series BIOS Version 1.87 04/28/2015
    task: ffff880838df8000 ti: ffff880017b94000 task.ti: ffff880017b94000
    RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff810dff80&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff810dff80&gt;] __wake_up_bit+0x20/0x70
    RSP: 0018:ffff880017b97be8  EFLAGS: 00010246
    RAX: ffffc90008963690 RBX: 00000000003c0000 RCX: 000000000000a4c9
    RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffea101bffd500 RDI: ffffc90008963648
    RBP: ffff880017b97c08 R08: 0000000002000020 R09: 0000000000000000
    R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8a0797c73800
    R13: ffffea101bffd500 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 00000000003c0000
    FS:  00007fcc7ffff700(0000) GS:ffff880874800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
    CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
    CR2: ffffc90008963690 CR3: 0000000836761000 CR4: 00000000001407e0
    Call Trace:
      unlock_page+0x6d/0x70
      generic_write_end+0x53/0xb0
      xfs_vm_write_end+0x29/0x80 [xfs]
      generic_perform_write+0x10a/0x1e0
      xfs_file_buffered_aio_write+0x14d/0x3e0 [xfs]
      xfs_file_write_iter+0x79/0x120 [xfs]
      __vfs_write+0xd4/0x110
      vfs_write+0xac/0x1c0
      SyS_write+0x58/0xd0
      system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x76
    Code: 5d c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 48 83 ec 20 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 45 f8 31 c0 48 8d 47 48 &lt;48&gt; 39 47 48 48 c7 45 e8 00 00 00 00 48 c7 45 f0 00 00 00 00 48
    RIP  [&lt;ffffffff810dff80&gt;] __wake_up_bit+0x20/0x70
     RSP &lt;ffff880017b97be8&gt;
    CR2: ffffc90008963690

Reproduce method (re-add a node)::
  Hot-add nodeA --&gt; remove nodeA --&gt; hot-add nodeA (panic)

This seems an use-after-free problem, and the root cause is
zone-&gt;wait_table was not set to *NULL* after free it in
try_offline_node.

When hot re-add a node, we will reuse the pgdat of it, so does the zone
struct, and when add pages to the target zone, it will init the zone
first (including the wait_table) if the zone is not initialized.  The
judgement of zone initialized is based on zone-&gt;wait_table:

	static inline bool zone_is_initialized(struct zone *zone)
	{
		return !!zone-&gt;wait_table;
	}

so if we do not set the zone-&gt;wait_table to *NULL* after free it, the
memory hotplug routine will skip the init of new zone when hot re-add
the node, and the wait_table still points to the freed memory, then we
will access the invalid address when trying to wake up the waiting
people after the i/o operation with the page is done, such as mentioned
above.

Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng &lt;guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reported-by: Taku Izumi &lt;izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu &lt;isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Izumi found the following oops when hot re-adding a node:

    BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90008963690
    IP: __wake_up_bit+0x20/0x70
    Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
    CPU: 68 PID: 1237 Comm: rs:main Q:Reg Not tainted 4.1.0-rc5 #80
    Hardware name: FUJITSU PRIMEQUEST2800E/SB, BIOS PRIMEQUEST 2000 Series BIOS Version 1.87 04/28/2015
    task: ffff880838df8000 ti: ffff880017b94000 task.ti: ffff880017b94000
    RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff810dff80&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff810dff80&gt;] __wake_up_bit+0x20/0x70
    RSP: 0018:ffff880017b97be8  EFLAGS: 00010246
    RAX: ffffc90008963690 RBX: 00000000003c0000 RCX: 000000000000a4c9
    RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffea101bffd500 RDI: ffffc90008963648
    RBP: ffff880017b97c08 R08: 0000000002000020 R09: 0000000000000000
    R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8a0797c73800
    R13: ffffea101bffd500 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 00000000003c0000
    FS:  00007fcc7ffff700(0000) GS:ffff880874800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
    CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
    CR2: ffffc90008963690 CR3: 0000000836761000 CR4: 00000000001407e0
    Call Trace:
      unlock_page+0x6d/0x70
      generic_write_end+0x53/0xb0
      xfs_vm_write_end+0x29/0x80 [xfs]
      generic_perform_write+0x10a/0x1e0
      xfs_file_buffered_aio_write+0x14d/0x3e0 [xfs]
      xfs_file_write_iter+0x79/0x120 [xfs]
      __vfs_write+0xd4/0x110
      vfs_write+0xac/0x1c0
      SyS_write+0x58/0xd0
      system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x76
    Code: 5d c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 48 83 ec 20 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 45 f8 31 c0 48 8d 47 48 &lt;48&gt; 39 47 48 48 c7 45 e8 00 00 00 00 48 c7 45 f0 00 00 00 00 48
    RIP  [&lt;ffffffff810dff80&gt;] __wake_up_bit+0x20/0x70
     RSP &lt;ffff880017b97be8&gt;
    CR2: ffffc90008963690

Reproduce method (re-add a node)::
  Hot-add nodeA --&gt; remove nodeA --&gt; hot-add nodeA (panic)

This seems an use-after-free problem, and the root cause is
zone-&gt;wait_table was not set to *NULL* after free it in
try_offline_node.

When hot re-add a node, we will reuse the pgdat of it, so does the zone
struct, and when add pages to the target zone, it will init the zone
first (including the wait_table) if the zone is not initialized.  The
judgement of zone initialized is based on zone-&gt;wait_table:

	static inline bool zone_is_initialized(struct zone *zone)
	{
		return !!zone-&gt;wait_table;
	}

so if we do not set the zone-&gt;wait_table to *NULL* after free it, the
memory hotplug routine will skip the init of new zone when hot re-add
the node, and the wait_table still points to the freed memory, then we
will access the invalid address when trying to wake up the waiting
people after the i/o operation with the page is done, such as mentioned
above.

Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng &lt;guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reported-by: Taku Izumi &lt;izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu &lt;isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: discard bdi_unregister() in favour of bdi_destroy()</title>
<updated>2015-05-28T16:12:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-19T05:58:37+00:00</published>
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bdi_unregister() now contains very little functionality.

It contains a "WARN_ON" if bdi-&gt;dev is NULL.  This warning is of no
real consequence as bdi-&gt;dev isn't needed by anything else in the function,
and it triggers if
   blk_cleanup_queue() -&gt; bdi_destroy()
is called before bdi_unregister, which happens since
  Commit: 6cd18e711dd8 ("block: destroy bdi before blockdev is unregistered.")

So this isn't wanted.

It also calls bdi_set_min_ratio().  This needs to be called after
writes through the bdi have all been flushed, and before the bdi is destroyed.
Calling it early is better than calling it late as it frees up a global
resource.

Calling it immediately after bdi_wb_shutdown() in bdi_destroy()
perfectly fits these requirements.

So bdi_unregister() can be discarded with the important content moved to
bdi_destroy(), as can the
  writeback_bdi_unregister
event which is already not used.

Reported-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v4.0)
Fixes: c4db59d31e39 ("fs: don't reassign dirty inodes to default_backing_dev_info")
Fixes: 6cd18e711dd8 ("block: destroy bdi before blockdev is unregistered.")
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nicholas Moulin &lt;nicholas.w.moulin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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bdi_unregister() now contains very little functionality.

It contains a "WARN_ON" if bdi-&gt;dev is NULL.  This warning is of no
real consequence as bdi-&gt;dev isn't needed by anything else in the function,
and it triggers if
   blk_cleanup_queue() -&gt; bdi_destroy()
is called before bdi_unregister, which happens since
  Commit: 6cd18e711dd8 ("block: destroy bdi before blockdev is unregistered.")

So this isn't wanted.

It also calls bdi_set_min_ratio().  This needs to be called after
writes through the bdi have all been flushed, and before the bdi is destroyed.
Calling it early is better than calling it late as it frees up a global
resource.

Calling it immediately after bdi_wb_shutdown() in bdi_destroy()
perfectly fits these requirements.

So bdi_unregister() can be discarded with the important content moved to
bdi_destroy(), as can the
  writeback_bdi_unregister
event which is already not used.

Reported-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v4.0)
Fixes: c4db59d31e39 ("fs: don't reassign dirty inodes to default_backing_dev_info")
Fixes: 6cd18e711dd8 ("block: destroy bdi before blockdev is unregistered.")
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nicholas Moulin &lt;nicholas.w.moulin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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