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authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>2010-05-24 17:32:24 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-05-25 11:06:59 -0400
commita8bef8ff6ea15fa4c67433cab0f5f3484574ef7c (patch)
tree3ea9c122e02f523379d4560ee2134124d097895c /fs
parente9e96b39f932a065e14f5d5bab0797ae261d03b5 (diff)
mm: migration: avoid race between shift_arg_pages() and rmap_walk() during migration by not migrating temporary stacks
Page migration requires rmap to be able to find all ptes mapping a page at all times, otherwise the migration entry can be instantiated, but it is possible to leave one behind if the second rmap_walk fails to find the page. If this page is later faulted, migration_entry_to_page() will call BUG because the page is locked indicating the page was migrated by the migration PTE not cleaned up. For example kernel BUG at include/linux/swapops.h:105! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ... Call Trace: [<ffffffff810e951a>] handle_mm_fault+0x3f8/0x76a [<ffffffff8130c7a2>] do_page_fault+0x44a/0x46e [<ffffffff813099b5>] page_fault+0x25/0x30 [<ffffffff8114de33>] load_elf_binary+0x152a/0x192b [<ffffffff8111329b>] search_binary_handler+0x173/0x313 [<ffffffff81114896>] do_execve+0x219/0x30a [<ffffffff8100a5c6>] sys_execve+0x43/0x5e [<ffffffff8100320a>] stub_execve+0x6a/0xc0 RIP [<ffffffff811094ff>] migration_entry_wait+0xc1/0x129 There is a race between shift_arg_pages and migration that triggers this bug. A temporary stack is setup during exec and later moved. If migration moves a page in the temporary stack and the VMA is then removed before migration completes, the migration PTE may not be found leading to a BUG when the stack is faulted. This patch causes pages within the temporary stack during exec to be skipped by migration. It does this by marking the VMA covering the temporary stack with an otherwise impossible combination of VMA flags. These flags are cleared when the temporary stack is moved to its final location. [kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: idea for having migration skip temporary stacks] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/exec.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index e6e94c626c2c..9badbc0bfb1d 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -242,9 +242,10 @@ static int __bprm_mm_init(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
242 * use STACK_TOP because that can depend on attributes which aren't 242 * use STACK_TOP because that can depend on attributes which aren't
243 * configured yet. 243 * configured yet.
244 */ 244 */
245 BUG_ON(VM_STACK_FLAGS & VM_STACK_INCOMPLETE_SETUP);
245 vma->vm_end = STACK_TOP_MAX; 246 vma->vm_end = STACK_TOP_MAX;
246 vma->vm_start = vma->vm_end - PAGE_SIZE; 247 vma->vm_start = vma->vm_end - PAGE_SIZE;
247 vma->vm_flags = VM_STACK_FLAGS; 248 vma->vm_flags = VM_STACK_FLAGS | VM_STACK_INCOMPLETE_SETUP;
248 vma->vm_page_prot = vm_get_page_prot(vma->vm_flags); 249 vma->vm_page_prot = vm_get_page_prot(vma->vm_flags);
249 INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vma->anon_vma_chain); 250 INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vma->anon_vma_chain);
250 err = insert_vm_struct(mm, vma); 251 err = insert_vm_struct(mm, vma);
@@ -616,6 +617,7 @@ int setup_arg_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
616 else if (executable_stack == EXSTACK_DISABLE_X) 617 else if (executable_stack == EXSTACK_DISABLE_X)
617 vm_flags &= ~VM_EXEC; 618 vm_flags &= ~VM_EXEC;
618 vm_flags |= mm->def_flags; 619 vm_flags |= mm->def_flags;
620 vm_flags |= VM_STACK_INCOMPLETE_SETUP;
619 621
620 ret = mprotect_fixup(vma, &prev, vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end, 622 ret = mprotect_fixup(vma, &prev, vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end,
621 vm_flags); 623 vm_flags);
@@ -630,6 +632,9 @@ int setup_arg_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
630 goto out_unlock; 632 goto out_unlock;
631 } 633 }
632 634
635 /* mprotect_fixup is overkill to remove the temporary stack flags */
636 vma->vm_flags &= ~VM_STACK_INCOMPLETE_SETUP;
637
633 stack_expand = 131072UL; /* randomly 32*4k (or 2*64k) pages */ 638 stack_expand = 131072UL; /* randomly 32*4k (or 2*64k) pages */
634 stack_size = vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start; 639 stack_size = vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start;
635 /* 640 /*