3.16.62-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Daniel Black daniel@linux.ibm.com
commit d41aa5252394c065d1f04d1ceea885b70d00c9c6 upstream.
Reproducer, assuming 2M of hugetlbfs available:
Hugetlbfs mounted, size=2M and option user=testuser
# mount | grep ^hugetlbfs hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,pagesize=2M,user=dan) # sysctl vm.nr_hugepages=1 vm.nr_hugepages = 1 # grep Huge /proc/meminfo AnonHugePages: 0 kB ShmemHugePages: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 1 HugePages_Free: 1 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB Hugetlb: 2048 kB
Code:
#include <sys/mman.h> #include <stddef.h> #define SIZE 2*1024*1024 int main() { void *ptr; ptr = mmap(NULL, SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_HUGETLB | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0); madvise(ptr, SIZE, MADV_DONTDUMP); madvise(ptr, SIZE, MADV_DODUMP); }
Compile and strace:
mmap(NULL, 2097152, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_HUGETLB, -1, 0) = 0x7ff7c9200000 madvise(0x7ff7c9200000, 2097152, MADV_DONTDUMP) = 0 madvise(0x7ff7c9200000, 2097152, MADV_DODUMP) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
hugetlbfs pages have VM_DONTEXPAND in the VmFlags driver pages based on author testing with analysis from Florian Weimer[1].
The inclusion of VM_DONTEXPAND into the VM_SPECIAL defination was a consequence of the large useage of VM_DONTEXPAND in device drivers.
A consequence of [2] is that VM_DONTEXPAND marked pages are unable to be marked DODUMP.
A user could quite legitimately madvise(MADV_DONTDUMP) their hugetlbfs memory for a while and later request that madvise(MADV_DODUMP) on the same memory. We correct this omission by allowing madvice(MADV_DODUMP) on hugetlbfs pages.
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52548260/madvisedodump-on-the-same-ptr-s... [2] commit 0103bd16fb90 ("mm: prepare VM_DONTDUMP for using in drivers")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180930054629.29150-1-daniel@linux.ibm.com Link: https://lists.launchpad.net/maria-discuss/msg05245.html Fixes: 0103bd16fb90 ("mm: prepare VM_DONTDUMP for using in drivers") Reported-by: Kenneth Penza kpenza@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Daniel Black daniel@linux.ibm.com Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz mike.kravetz@oracle.com Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov khlebnikov@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk --- mm/madvise.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/madvise.c +++ b/mm/madvise.c @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ static long madvise_behavior(struct vm_a new_flags |= VM_DONTDUMP; break; case MADV_DODUMP: - if (new_flags & VM_SPECIAL) { + if (!is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma) && new_flags & VM_SPECIAL) { error = -EINVAL; goto out; }