linux/mm, branch v4.0

fix mremap() vs. ioctx_kill() race

2015-04-06T21:50:59Z

teach ->mremap() method to return an error and have it fail for aio mappings in process of being killed Note that in case of ->mremap() failure we need to undo move_page_tables() we'd already done; we could call ->mremap() first, but then the failure of move_page_tables() would require undoing whatever _successful_ ->mremap() has done, which would be a lot more headache in general. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2015-03-25T23:21:17Z

Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton: "15 fixes" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : mm: numa: mark huge PTEs young when clearing NUMA hinting faults mm: numa: slow PTE scan rate if migration failures occur mm: numa: preserve PTE write permissions across a NUMA hinting fault mm: numa: group related processes based on VMA flags instead of page table flags hfsplus: fix B-tree corruption after insertion at position 0 MAINTAINERS: add Jan as DMI/SMBIOS support maintainer fs/affs/file.c: unlock/release page on error mm/page_alloc.c: call kernel_map_pages in unset_migrateype_isolate mm/slub: fix lockups on PREEMPT && !SMP kernels mm/memory hotplug: postpone the reset of obsolete pgdat MAINTAINERS: correct rtc armada38x pattern entry mm/pagewalk.c: prevent positive return value of walk_page_test() from being passed to callers mm: fix anon_vma->degree underflow in anon_vma endless growing prevention drivers/rtc/rtc-mrst: fix suspend/resume aoe: update aoe maintainer information

mm: numa: mark huge PTEs young when clearing NUMA hinting faults

2015-03-25T23:20:31Z

Base PTEs are marked young when the NUMA hinting information is cleared but the same does not happen for huge pages which this patch addresses. Note that migrated pages are not marked young as the base page migration code does not assume that migrated pages have been referenced. This could be addressed but beyond the scope of this series which is aimed at Dave Chinners shrink workload that is unlikely to be affected by this issue. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Aneesh Kumar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: numa: slow PTE scan rate if migration failures occur

2015-03-25T23:20:31Z

Dave Chinner reported the following on https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/1/226 Across the board the 4.0-rc1 numbers are much slower, and the degradation is far worse when using the large memory footprint configs. Perf points straight at the cause - this is from 4.0-rc1 on the "-o bhash=101073" config: - 56.07% 56.07% [kernel] [k] default_send_IPI_mask_sequence_phys - default_send_IPI_mask_sequence_phys - 99.99% physflat_send_IPI_mask - 99.37% native_send_call_func_ipi smp_call_function_many - native_flush_tlb_others - 99.85% flush_tlb_page ptep_clear_flush try_to_unmap_one rmap_walk try_to_unmap migrate_pages migrate_misplaced_page - handle_mm_fault - 99.73% __do_page_fault trace_do_page_fault do_async_page_fault + async_page_fault 0.63% native_send_call_func_single_ipi generic_exec_single smp_call_function_single This is showing excessive migration activity even though excessive migrations are meant to get throttled. Normally, the scan rate is tuned on a per-task basis depending on the locality of faults. However, if migrations fail for any reason then the PTE scanner may scan faster if the faults continue to be remote. This means there is higher system CPU overhead and fault trapping at exactly the time we know that migrations cannot happen. This patch tracks when migration failures occur and slows the PTE scanner. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reported-by: Dave Chinner Tested-by: Dave Chinner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Aneesh Kumar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: numa: preserve PTE write permissions across a NUMA hinting fault

2015-03-25T23:20:31Z

Protecting a PTE to trap a NUMA hinting fault clears the writable bit and further faults are needed after trapping a NUMA hinting fault to set the writable bit again. This patch preserves the writable bit when trapping NUMA hinting faults. The impact is obvious from the number of minor faults trapped during the basis balancing benchmark and the system CPU usage; autonumabench 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 baseline preserve Time System-NUMA01 107.13 ( 0.00%) 103.13 ( 3.73%) Time System-NUMA01_THEADLOCAL 131.87 ( 0.00%) 83.30 ( 36.83%) Time System-NUMA02 8.95 ( 0.00%) 10.72 (-19.78%) Time System-NUMA02_SMT 4.57 ( 0.00%) 3.99 ( 12.69%) Time Elapsed-NUMA01 515.78 ( 0.00%) 517.26 ( -0.29%) Time Elapsed-NUMA01_THEADLOCAL 384.10 ( 0.00%) 384.31 ( -0.05%) Time Elapsed-NUMA02 48.86 ( 0.00%) 48.78 ( 0.16%) Time Elapsed-NUMA02_SMT 47.98 ( 0.00%) 48.12 ( -0.29%) 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 baseline preserve User 44383.95 43971.89 System 252.61 201.24 Elapsed 998.68 1000.94 Minor Faults 2597249 1981230 Major Faults 365 364 There is a similar drop in system CPU usage using Dave Chinner's xfsrepair workload 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 baseline preserve Amean real-xfsrepair 454.14 ( 0.00%) 442.36 ( 2.60%) Amean syst-xfsrepair 277.20 ( 0.00%) 204.68 ( 26.16%) The patch looks hacky but the alternatives looked worse. The tidest was to rewalk the page tables after a hinting fault but it was more complex than this approach and the performance was worse. It's not generally safe to just mark the page writable during the fault if it's a write fault as it may have been read-only for COW so that approach was discarded. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reported-by: Dave Chinner Tested-by: Dave Chinner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Aneesh Kumar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: numa: group related processes based on VMA flags instead of page table flags

2015-03-25T23:20:31Z

These are three follow-on patches based on the xfsrepair workload Dave Chinner reported was problematic in 4.0-rc1 due to changes in page table management -- https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/1/226. Much of the problem was reduced by commit 53da3bc2ba9e ("mm: fix up numa read-only thread grouping logic") and commit ba68bc0115eb ("mm: thp: Return the correct value for change_huge_pmd"). It was known that the performance in 3.19 was still better even if is far less safe. This series aims to restore the performance without compromising on safety. For the test of this mail, I'm comparing 3.19 against 4.0-rc4 and the three patches applied on top autonumabench 3.19.0 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 vanilla vanilla vmwrite-v5r8 preserve-v5r8 slowscan-v5r8 Time System-NUMA01 124.00 ( 0.00%) 161.86 (-30.53%) 107.13 ( 13.60%) 103.13 ( 16.83%) 145.01 (-16.94%) Time System-NUMA01_THEADLOCAL 115.54 ( 0.00%) 107.64 ( 6.84%) 131.87 (-14.13%) 83.30 ( 27.90%) 92.35 ( 20.07%) Time System-NUMA02 9.35 ( 0.00%) 10.44 (-11.66%) 8.95 ( 4.28%) 10.72 (-14.65%) 8.16 ( 12.73%) Time System-NUMA02_SMT 3.87 ( 0.00%) 4.63 (-19.64%) 4.57 (-18.09%) 3.99 ( -3.10%) 3.36 ( 13.18%) Time Elapsed-NUMA01 570.06 ( 0.00%) 567.82 ( 0.39%) 515.78 ( 9.52%) 517.26 ( 9.26%) 543.80 ( 4.61%) Time Elapsed-NUMA01_THEADLOCAL 393.69 ( 0.00%) 384.83 ( 2.25%) 384.10 ( 2.44%) 384.31 ( 2.38%) 380.73 ( 3.29%) Time Elapsed-NUMA02 49.09 ( 0.00%) 49.33 ( -0.49%) 48.86 ( 0.47%) 48.78 ( 0.63%) 50.94 ( -3.77%) Time Elapsed-NUMA02_SMT 47.51 ( 0.00%) 47.15 ( 0.76%) 47.98 ( -0.99%) 48.12 ( -1.28%) 49.56 ( -4.31%) 3.19.0 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 vanilla vanillavmwrite-v5r8preserve-v5r8slowscan-v5r8 User 46334.60 46391.94 44383.95 43971.89 44372.12 System 252.84 284.66 252.61 201.24 249.00 Elapsed 1062.14 1050.96 998.68 1000.94 1026.78 Overall the system CPU usage is comparable and the test is naturally a bit variable. The slowing of the scanner hurts numa01 but on this machine it is an adverse workload and patches that dramatically help it often hurt absolutely everything else. Due to patch 2, the fault activity is interesting 3.19.0 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 vanilla vanillavmwrite-v5r8preserve-v5r8slowscan-v5r8 Minor Faults 2097811 2656646 2597249 1981230 1636841 Major Faults 362 450 365 364 365 Note the impact preserving the write bit across protection updates and fault reduces faults. NUMA alloc hit 1229008 1217015 1191660 1178322 1199681 NUMA alloc miss 0 0 0 0 0 NUMA interleave hit 0 0 0 0 0 NUMA alloc local 1228514 1216317 1190871 1177448 1199021 NUMA base PTE updates 245706197 240041607 238195516 244704842 115012800 NUMA huge PMD updates 479530 468448 464868 477573 224487 NUMA page range updates 491225557 479886983 476207932 489222218 229950144 NUMA hint faults 659753 656503 641678 656926 294842 NUMA hint local faults 381604 373963 360478 337585 186249 NUMA hint local percent 57 56 56 51 63 NUMA pages migrated 5412140 6374899 6266530 5277468 5755096 AutoNUMA cost 5121% 5083% 4994% 5097% 2388% Here the impact of slowing the PTE scanner on migratrion failures is obvious as "NUMA base PTE updates" and "NUMA huge PMD updates" are massively reduced even though the headline performance is very similar. As xfsrepair was the reported workload here is the impact of the series on it. xfsrepair 3.19.0 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 vanilla vanilla vmwrite-v5r8 preserve-v5r8 slowscan-v5r8 Min real-fsmark 1183.29 ( 0.00%) 1165.73 ( 1.48%) 1152.78 ( 2.58%) 1153.64 ( 2.51%) 1177.62 ( 0.48%) Min syst-fsmark 4107.85 ( 0.00%) 4027.75 ( 1.95%) 3986.74 ( 2.95%) 3979.16 ( 3.13%) 4048.76 ( 1.44%) Min real-xfsrepair 441.51 ( 0.00%) 463.96 ( -5.08%) 449.50 ( -1.81%) 440.08 ( 0.32%) 439.87 ( 0.37%) Min syst-xfsrepair 195.76 ( 0.00%) 278.47 (-42.25%) 262.34 (-34.01%) 203.70 ( -4.06%) 143.64 ( 26.62%) Amean real-fsmark 1188.30 ( 0.00%) 1177.34 ( 0.92%) 1157.97 ( 2.55%) 1158.21 ( 2.53%) 1182.22 ( 0.51%) Amean syst-fsmark 4111.37 ( 0.00%) 4055.70 ( 1.35%) 3987.19 ( 3.02%) 3998.72 ( 2.74%) 4061.69 ( 1.21%) Amean real-xfsrepair 450.88 ( 0.00%) 468.32 ( -3.87%) 454.14 ( -0.72%) 442.36 ( 1.89%) 440.59 ( 2.28%) Amean syst-xfsrepair 199.66 ( 0.00%) 290.60 (-45.55%) 277.20 (-38.84%) 204.68 ( -2.51%) 150.55 ( 24.60%) Stddev real-fsmark 4.12 ( 0.00%) 10.82 (-162.29%) 4.14 ( -0.28%) 5.98 (-45.05%) 4.60 (-11.53%) Stddev syst-fsmark 2.63 ( 0.00%) 20.32 (-671.82%) 0.37 ( 85.89%) 16.47 (-525.59%) 15.05 (-471.79%) Stddev real-xfsrepair 6.87 ( 0.00%) 4.55 ( 33.75%) 3.46 ( 49.58%) 1.78 ( 74.12%) 0.52 ( 92.50%) Stddev syst-xfsrepair 3.02 ( 0.00%) 10.30 (-241.37%) 13.17 (-336.37%) 0.71 ( 76.63%) 5.00 (-65.61%) CoeffVar real-fsmark 0.35 ( 0.00%) 0.92 (-164.73%) 0.36 ( -2.91%) 0.52 (-48.82%) 0.39 (-12.10%) CoeffVar syst-fsmark 0.06 ( 0.00%) 0.50 (-682.41%) 0.01 ( 85.45%) 0.41 (-543.22%) 0.37 (-478.78%) CoeffVar real-xfsrepair 1.52 ( 0.00%) 0.97 ( 36.21%) 0.76 ( 49.94%) 0.40 ( 73.62%) 0.12 ( 92.33%) CoeffVar syst-xfsrepair 1.51 ( 0.00%) 3.54 (-134.54%) 4.75 (-214.31%) 0.34 ( 77.20%) 3.32 (-119.63%) Max real-fsmark 1193.39 ( 0.00%) 1191.77 ( 0.14%) 1162.90 ( 2.55%) 1166.66 ( 2.24%) 1188.50 ( 0.41%) Max syst-fsmark 4114.18 ( 0.00%) 4075.45 ( 0.94%) 3987.65 ( 3.08%) 4019.45 ( 2.30%) 4082.80 ( 0.76%) Max real-xfsrepair 457.80 ( 0.00%) 474.60 ( -3.67%) 457.82 ( -0.00%) 444.42 ( 2.92%) 441.03 ( 3.66%) Max syst-xfsrepair 203.11 ( 0.00%) 303.65 (-49.50%) 294.35 (-44.92%) 205.33 ( -1.09%) 155.28 ( 23.55%) The really relevant lines as syst-xfsrepair which is the system CPU usage when running xfsrepair. Note that on my machine the overhead was 45% higher on 4.0-rc4 which may be part of what Dave is seeing. Once we preserve the write bit across faults, it's only 2.51% higher on average. With the full series applied, system CPU usage is 24.6% lower on average. Again, the impact of preserving the write bit on minor faults is obvious and the impact of slowing scanning after migration failures is obvious on the PTE updates. Note also that the number of pages migrated is much reduced even though the headline performance is comparable. 3.19.0 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 vanilla vanillavmwrite-v5r8preserve-v5r8slowscan-v5r8 Minor Faults 153466827 254507978 249163829 153501373 105737890 Major Faults 610 702 690 649 724 NUMA base PTE updates 217735049 210756527 217729596 216937111 144344993 NUMA huge PMD updates 129294 85044 106921 127246 79887 NUMA pages migrated 21938995 29705270 28594162 22687324 16258075 3.19.0 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 4.0.0-rc4 vanilla vanillavmwrite-v5r8preserve-v5r8slowscan-v5r8 Mean sdb-avgqusz 13.47 2.54 2.55 2.47 2.49 Mean sdb-avgrqsz 202.32 140.22 139.50 139.02 138.12 Mean sdb-await 25.92 5.09 5.33 5.02 5.22 Mean sdb-r_await 4.71 0.19 0.83 0.51 0.11 Mean sdb-w_await 104.13 5.21 5.38 5.05 5.32 Mean sdb-svctm 0.59 0.13 0.14 0.13 0.14 Mean sdb-rrqm 0.16 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Mean sdb-wrqm 3.59 1799.43 1826.84 1812.21 1785.67 Max sdb-avgqusz 111.06 12.13 14.05 11.66 15.60 Max sdb-avgrqsz 255.60 190.34 190.01 187.33 191.78 Max sdb-await 168.24 39.28 49.22 44.64 65.62 Max sdb-r_await 660.00 52.00 280.00 76.00 12.00 Max sdb-w_await 7804.00 39.28 49.22 44.64 65.62 Max sdb-svctm 4.00 2.82 2.86 1.98 2.84 Max sdb-rrqm 8.30 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Max sdb-wrqm 34.20 5372.80 5278.60 5386.60 5546.15 FWIW, I also checked SPECjbb in different configurations but it's similar observations -- minor faults lower, PTE update activity lower and performance is roughly comparable against 3.19. This patch (of 3): Threads that share writable data within pages are grouped together as related tasks. This decision is based on whether the PTE is marked dirty which is subject to timing races between the PTE scanner update and when the application writes the page. If the page is file-backed, then background flushes and sync also affect placement. This is unpredictable behaviour which is impossible to reason about so this patch makes grouping decisions based on the VMA flags. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reported-by: Dave Chinner Tested-by: Dave Chinner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Aneesh Kumar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/page_alloc.c: call kernel_map_pages in unset_migrateype_isolate

2015-03-25T23:20:30Z

Commit 3c605096d315 ("mm/page_alloc: restrict max order of merging on isolated pageblock") changed the logic of unset_migratetype_isolate to check the buddy allocator and explicitly call __free_pages to merge. The page that is being freed in this path never had prep_new_page called so set_page_refcounted is called explicitly but there is no call to kernel_map_pages. With the default kernel_map_pages this is mostly harmless but if kernel_map_pages does any manipulation of the page tables (unmapping or setting pages to read only) this may trigger a fault: alloc_contig_range test_pages_isolated(ceb00, ced00) failed Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffc0cec00000 pgd = ffffffc045fc4000 [ffffffc0cec00000] *pgd=0000000000000000 Internal error: Oops: 9600004f [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: exfatfs CPU: 1 PID: 23237 Comm: TimedEventQueue Not tainted 3.10.49-gc72ad36-dirty #1 task: ffffffc03de52100 ti: ffffffc015388000 task.ti: ffffffc015388000 PC is at memset+0xc8/0x1c0 LR is at kernel_map_pages+0x1ec/0x244 Fix this by calling kernel_map_pages to ensure the page is set in the page table properly Fixes: 3c605096d315 ("mm/page_alloc: restrict max order of merging on isolated pageblock") Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu Cc: Zhang Yanfei Cc: Xishi Qiu Cc: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Gioh Kim Cc: Michal Nazarewicz Cc: Marek Szyprowski Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/slub: fix lockups on PREEMPT && !SMP kernels

2015-03-25T23:20:30Z

Commit 9aabf810a67c ("mm/slub: optimize alloc/free fastpath by removing preemption on/off") introduced an occasional hang for kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPT && !CONFIG_SMP. The problem is the following loop the patch introduced to slab_alloc_node and slab_free: do { tid = this_cpu_read(s->cpu_slab->tid); c = raw_cpu_ptr(s->cpu_slab); } while (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT) && unlikely(tid != c->tid)); GCC 4.9 has been observed to hoist the load of c and c->tid above the loop for !SMP kernels (as in this case raw_cpu_ptr(x) is compile-time constant and does not force a reload). On arm64 the generated assembly looks like: ldr x4, [x0,#8] loop: ldr x1, [x0,#8] cmp x1, x4 b.ne loop If the thread is preempted between the load of c->tid (into x1) and tid (into x4), and an allocation or free occurs in another thread (bumping the cpu_slab's tid), the thread will be stuck in the loop until s->cpu_slab->tid wraps, which may be forever in the absence of allocations/frees on the same CPU. This patch changes the loop condition to access c->tid with READ_ONCE. This ensures that the value is reloaded even when the compiler would otherwise assume it could cache the value, and also ensures that the load will not be torn. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland Cc: Catalin Marinas Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Steve Capper Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/memory hotplug: postpone the reset of obsolete pgdat

2015-03-25T23:20:30Z

Qiu Xishi reported the following BUG when testing hot-add/hot-remove node under stress condition: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000025f60 IP: next_online_pgdat+0x1/0x50 PGD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP ACPI: Device does not support D3cold Modules linked in: fuse nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat loop dm_mod coretemp mperf crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel ablk_helper cryptd lrw gf128mul glue_helper aes_x86_64 pcspkr microcode igb dca i2c_algo_bit ipv6 megaraid_sas iTCO_wdt i2c_i801 i2c_core iTCO_vendor_support tg3 sg hwmon ptp lpc_ich pps_core mfd_core acpi_pad rtc_cmos button ext3 jbd mbcache sd_mod crc_t10dif scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh ahci libahci libata scsi_mod [last unloaded: rasf] CPU: 23 PID: 238 Comm: kworker/23:1 Tainted: G O 3.10.15-5885-euler0302 #1 Hardware name: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD. Huawei N1/Huawei N1, BIOS V100R001 03/02/2015 Workqueue: events vmstat_update task: ffffa800d32c0000 ti: ffffa800d32ae000 task.ti: ffffa800d32ae000 RIP: 0010: next_online_pgdat+0x1/0x50 RSP: 0018:ffffa800d32afce8 EFLAGS: 00010286 RAX: 0000000000001440 RBX: ffffffff81da53b8 RCX: 0000000000000082 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000082 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffffa800d32afd28 R08: ffffffff81c93bfc R09: ffffffff81cbdc96 R10: 00000000000040ec R11: 00000000000000a0 R12: ffffa800fffb3440 R13: ffffa800d32afd38 R14: 0000000000000017 R15: ffffa800e6616800 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa800e6600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000025f60 CR3: 0000000001a0b000 CR4: 00000000001407e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: refresh_cpu_vm_stats+0xd0/0x140 vmstat_update+0x11/0x50 process_one_work+0x194/0x3d0 worker_thread+0x12b/0x410 kthread+0xc6/0xd0 ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 The cause is the "memset(pgdat, 0, sizeof(*pgdat))" at the end of try_offline_node, which will reset all the content of pgdat to 0, as the pgdat is accessed lock-free, so that the users still using the pgdat will panic, such as the vmstat_update routine. process A: offline node XX: vmstat_updat() refresh_cpu_vm_stats() for_each_populated_zone() find online node XX cond_resched() offline cpu and memory, then try_offline_node() node_set_offline(nid), and memset(pgdat, 0, sizeof(*pgdat)) zone = next_zone(zone) pg_data_t *pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat; // here pgdat is NULL now next_online_pgdat(pgdat) next_online_node(pgdat->node_id); // NULL pointer access So the solution here is postponing the reset of obsolete pgdat from try_offline_node() to hotadd_new_pgdat(), and just resetting pgdat->nr_zones and pgdat->classzone_idx to be 0 rather than the memset 0 to avoid breaking pointer information in pgdat. Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng Reported-by: Xishi Qiu Suggested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu Cc: Taku Izumi Cc: Tang Chen Cc: Xie XiuQi Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/pagewalk.c: prevent positive return value of walk_page_test() from being passed to callers

2015-03-25T23:20:30Z

walk_page_test() is purely pagewalk's internal stuff, and its positive return values are not intended to be passed to the callers of pagewalk. However, in the current code if the last vma in the do-while loop in walk_page_range() happens to return a positive value, it leaks outside walk_page_range(). So the user visible effect is invalid/unexpected return value (according to the reporter, mbind() causes it.) This patch fixes it simply by reinitializing the return value after checked. Another exposed interface, walk_page_vma(), already returns 0 for such cases so no problem. Fixes: fafaa4264eba ("pagewalk: improve vma handling") Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi Signed-off-by: Kazutomo Yoshii Reported-by: Kazutomo Yoshii Acked-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds