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  1. Aug 24, 2012
  3. Aug 21, 2012
    • Michal Hocko's avatar
      mm: hugetlbfs: correctly populate shared pmd · eb48c071
      Michal Hocko authored 
      

Each page mapped in a process's address space must be correctly
accounted for in _mapcount.  Normally the rules for this are
straightforward but hugetlbfs page table sharing is different.  The page
table pages at the PMD level are reference counted while the mapcount
remains the same.

If this accounting is wrong, it causes bugs like this one reported by
Larry Woodman:

  kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:135!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
  CPU 22
  Modules linked in: bridge stp llc sunrpc binfmt_misc dcdbas microcode pcspkr acpi_pad acpi]
  Pid: 18001, comm: mpitest Tainted: G        W    3.3.0+ #4 Dell Inc. PowerEdge R620/07NDJ2
  RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8112cfed>]  [<ffffffff8112cfed>] __delete_from_page_cache+0x15d/0x170
  Process mpitest (pid: 18001, threadinfo ffff880428972000, task ffff880428b5cc20)
  Call Trace:
    delete_from_page_cache+0x40/0x80
    truncate_hugepages+0x115/0x1f0
    hugetlbfs_evict_inode+0x18/0x30
    evict+0x9f/0x1b0
    iput_final+0xe3/0x1e0
    iput+0x3e/0x50
    d_kill+0xf8/0x110
    dput+0xe2/0x1b0
    __fput+0x162/0x240

During fork(), copy_hugetlb_page_range() detects if huge_pte_alloc()
shared page tables with the check dst_pte == src_pte.  The logic is if
the PMD page is the same, they must be shared.  This assumes that the
sharing is between the parent and child.  However, if the sharing is
with a different process entirely then this check fails as in this
diagram:

  parent
    |
    ------------>pmd
                 src_pte----------> data page
                                        ^
  other--------->pmd--------------------|
                  ^
  child-----------|
                 dst_pte

For this situation to occur, it must be possible for Parent and Other to
have faulted and failed to share page tables with each other.  This is
possible due to the following style of race.

  PROC A                                          PROC B
  copy_hugetlb_page_range                         copy_hugetlb_page_range
    src_pte == huge_pte_offset                      src_pte == huge_pte_offset
    !src_pte so no sharing                          !src_pte so no sharing

  (time passes)

  hugetlb_fault                                   hugetlb_fault
    huge_pte_alloc                                  huge_pte_alloc
      huge_pmd_share                                 huge_pmd_share
        LOCK(i_mmap_mutex)
        find nothing, no sharing
        UNLOCK(i_mmap_mutex)
                                                      LOCK(i_mmap_mutex)
                                                      find nothing, no sharing
                                                      UNLOCK(i_mmap_mutex)
      pmd_alloc                                       pmd_alloc
      LOCK(instantiation_mutex)
      fault
      UNLOCK(instantiation_mutex)
                                                  LOCK(instantiation_mutex)
                                                  fault
                                                  UNLOCK(instantiation_mutex)

These two processes are not poing to the same data page but are not
sharing page tables because the opportunity was missed.  When either
process later forks, the src_pte == dst pte is potentially insufficient.
As the check falls through, the wrong PTE information is copied in
(harmless but wrong) and the mapcount is bumped for a page mapped by a
shared page table leading to the BUG_ON.

This patch addresses the issue by moving pmd_alloc into huge_pmd_share
which guarantees that the shared pud is populated in the same critical
section as pmd.  This also means that huge_pte_offset test in
huge_pmd_share is serialized correctly now which in turn means that the
success of the sharing will be higher as the racing tasks see the pud
and pmd populated together.

Race identified and changelog written mostly by Mel Gorman.

{akpm@linux-foundation.org: attempt to make the huge_pmd_share() comment comprehensible, clean up coding style]
Reported-by: default avatarLarry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Tested-by: default avatarLarry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      eb48c071
  5. Aug 20, 2012
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  9. Aug 18, 2012
    • Mike Frysinger's avatar
      x32: Use compat shims for {g,s}etsockopt · 515c7af8
      Mike Frysinger authored 
      Some of the arguments to {g,s}etsockopt are passed in userland pointers.
If we try to use the 64bit entry point, we end up sometimes failing.

For example, dhcpcd doesn't run in x32:
	# dhcpcd eth0
	dhcpcd[1979]: version 5.5.6 starting
	dhcpcd[1979]: eth0: broadcasting for a lease
	dhcpcd[1979]: eth0: open_socket: Invalid argument
	dhcpcd[1979]: eth0: send_raw_packet: Bad file descriptor

The code in particular is getting back EINVAL when doing:
	struct sock_fprog pf;
	setsockopt(s, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ATTACH_FILTER, &pf, sizeof(pf));

Diving into the kernel code, we can see:
include/linux/filter.h:
	struct sock_fprog {
		unsigned short len;
		struct sock_filter __user *filter;
	};

net/core/sock.c:
	case SO_ATTACH_FILTER:
		ret = -EINVAL;
		if (optlen == sizeof(struct sock_fprog)) {
			struct sock_fprog fprog;

			ret = -EFAULT;
			if (copy_from_user(&fprog, optval, sizeof(fprog)))
				break;

			ret = sk_attach_filter(&fprog, sk);
		}
		break;

arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl:
	54 common setsockopt sys_setsockopt
	55 common getsockopt sys_getsockopt

So for x64, sizeof(sock_fprog) is 16 bytes.  For x86/x32, it's 8 bytes.
This comes down to the pointer being 32bit for x32, which means we need
to do structure size translation.  But since x32 comes in directly to
sys_setsockopt, it doesn't get translated like x86.

After changing the syscall table and rebuilding glibc with the new kernel
headers, dhcp runs fine in an x32 userland.

Oddly, it seems like Linus noted the same thing during the initial port,
but I guess that was missed/lost along the way:
	https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/26/452

[ hpa: tagging for -stable since this is an ABI fix. ]

Bugzilla: https://bugs.gentoo.org/423649


Reported-by: default avatarMads <mads@ab3.no>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345320697-15713-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org


Cc: H. J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> v3.4..v3.5
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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