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| author | Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> | 2010-04-23 13:17:56 -0400 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2010-04-28 05:47:54 -0400 |
| commit | 6994dafc593b03419e3b490805d1d7c418990ab5 (patch) | |
| tree | 2776a8ceab46d798a12adf5a3d0a85b00fe50403 /lib/spinlock_debug.c | |
| parent | 71041409681da272809cde28ac1c44b68d63d434 (diff) | |
hugetlb: fix infinite loop in get_futex_key() when backed by huge pages
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.
[ upstream commit: 23be7468e8802a2ac1de6ee3eecb3ec7f14dc703 ]
[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>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/spinlock_debug.c')
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