tree 2f1b320de88531e2c614c74f0fbc0fa7f50e0ad8
parent ef83b6e8f40bb24b92ad73b5889732346e54a793
author Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> 1447632392 -0800
committer Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> 1447746885 -0800

dax: disable pmd mappings

While dax pmd mappings are functional in the nominal path they trigger
kernel crashes in the following paths:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffea0004098000
 IP: [<ffffffff812362f7>] follow_trans_huge_pmd+0x117/0x3b0
 [..]
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff811f6573>] follow_page_mask+0x2d3/0x380
  [<ffffffff811f6708>] __get_user_pages+0xe8/0x6f0
  [<ffffffff811f7045>] get_user_pages_unlocked+0x165/0x1e0
  [<ffffffff8106f5b1>] get_user_pages_fast+0xa1/0x1b0

 kernel BUG at arch/x86/mm/gup.c:131!
 [..]
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff8106f34c>] gup_pud_range+0x1bc/0x220
  [<ffffffff8106f634>] get_user_pages_fast+0x124/0x1b0

 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffea0004088000
 IP: [<ffffffff81235f49>] copy_huge_pmd+0x159/0x350
 [..]
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff811fad3c>] copy_page_range+0x34c/0x9f0
  [<ffffffff810a0daf>] copy_process+0x1b7f/0x1e10
  [<ffffffff810a11c1>] _do_fork+0x91/0x590

All of these paths are interpreting a dax pmd mapping as a transparent
huge page and making the assumption that the pfn is covered by the
memmap, i.e. that the pfn has an associated struct page.  PTE mappings
do not suffer the same fate since they have the _PAGE_SPECIAL flag to
cause the gup path to fault.  We can do something similar for the PMD
path, or otherwise defer pmd support for cases where a struct page is
available.  For now, 4.4-rc and -stable need to disable dax pmd support
by default.

For development the "depends on BROKEN" line can be removed from
CONFIG_FS_DAX_PMD.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>