From e6780f7243eddb133cc20ec37fa69317c218b709 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:44:01 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] futex: Fix uninterruptible loop due to gate_area It was found (by Sasha) that if you use a futex located in the gate area we get stuck in an uninterruptible infinite loop, much like the ZERO_PAGE issue. While looking at this problem, PeterZ realized you'll get into similar trouble when hitting any install_special_pages() mapping. And are there still drivers setting up their own special mmaps without page->mapping, and without special VM or pte flags to make get_user_pages fail? In most cases, if page->mapping is NULL, we do not need to retry at all: Linus points out that even /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches poses no problem, because it ends up using remove_mapping(), which takes care not to interfere when the page reference count is raised. But there is still one case which does need a retry: if memory pressure called shmem_writepage in between get_user_pages_fast dropping page table lock and our acquiring page lock, then the page gets switched from filecache to swapcache (and ->mapping set to NULL) whatever the refcount. Fault it back in to get the page->mapping needed for key->shared.inode. Reported-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/futex.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c index ea87f4d2f455..1614be20173d 100644 --- a/kernel/futex.c +++ b/kernel/futex.c @@ -314,17 +314,29 @@ again: #endif lock_page(page_head); + + /* + * If page_head->mapping is NULL, then it cannot be a PageAnon + * page; but it might be the ZERO_PAGE or in the gate area or + * in a special mapping (all cases which we are happy to fail); + * or it may have been a good file page when get_user_pages_fast + * found it, but truncated or holepunched or subjected to + * invalidate_complete_page2 before we got the page lock (also + * cases which we are happy to fail). And we hold a reference, + * so refcount care in invalidate_complete_page's remove_mapping + * prevents drop_caches from setting mapping to NULL beneath us. + * + * The case we do have to guard against is when memory pressure made + * shmem_writepage move it from filecache to swapcache beneath us: + * an unlikely race, but we do need to retry for page_head->mapping. + */ if (!page_head->mapping) { + int shmem_swizzled = PageSwapCache(page_head); unlock_page(page_head); put_page(page_head); - /* - * ZERO_PAGE pages don't have a mapping. Avoid a busy loop - * trying to find one. RW mapping would have COW'd (and thus - * have a mapping) so this page is RO and won't ever change. - */ - if ((page_head == ZERO_PAGE(address))) - return -EFAULT; - goto again; + if (shmem_swizzled) + goto again; + return -EFAULT; } /* -- 2.34.1