tree 7e6f2978c168dbf6861cba3ed3eaf998fa55d0c2
parent d5ecb4ca0da7528c0f1ebc676d831b00efd37efa
author Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> 1496439971 -0700
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 1496830069 +0200

ksm: prevent crash after write_protect_page fails

commit a7306c3436e9c8e584a4b9fad5f3dc91be2a6076 upstream.

"err" needs to be left set to -EFAULT if split_huge_page succeeds.
Otherwise if "err" gets clobbered with zero and write_protect_page
fails, try_to_merge_one_page() will succeed instead of returning -EFAULT
and then try_to_merge_with_ksm_page() will continue thinking kpage is a
PageKsm when in fact it's still an anonymous page.  Eventually it'll
crash in page_add_anon_rmap.

This has been reproduced on Fedora25 kernel but I can reproduce with
upstream too.

The bug was introduced in commit f765f540598a ("ksm: prepare to new THP
semantics") introduced in v4.5.

    page:fffff67546ce1cc0 count:4 mapcount:2 mapping:ffffa094551e36e1 index:0x7f0f46673
    flags: 0x2ffffc0004007c(referenced|uptodate|dirty|lru|active|swapbacked)
    page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page))
    page->mem_cgroup:ffffa09674bf0000
    ------------[ cut here ]------------
    kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:1222!
    CPU: 1 PID: 76 Comm: ksmd Not tainted 4.9.3-200.fc25.x86_64 #1
    RIP: do_page_add_anon_rmap+0x1c4/0x240
    Call Trace:
      page_add_anon_rmap+0x18/0x20
      try_to_merge_with_ksm_page+0x50b/0x780
      ksm_scan_thread+0x1211/0x1410
      ? prepare_to_wait_event+0x100/0x100
      ? try_to_merge_with_ksm_page+0x780/0x780
      kthread+0xd9/0xf0
      ? kthread_park+0x60/0x60
      ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30

Fixes: f765f54059 ("ksm: prepare to new THP semantics")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170513131040.21732-1-aarcange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Federico Simoncelli <fsimonce@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>