tree 7ab077a7854d5f2371030d2080ee8db10ded9a69
parent f1b23714cb578c88ea051768bf26b459e1264411
author Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> 1321397349 -0800
committer Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 1323101194 +0100

x86/paravirt: PTE updates in k(un)map_atomic need to be synchronous, regardless of lazy_mmu mode

Fix an outstanding issue that has been reported since 2.6.37.
Under a heavy loaded machine processing "fork()" calls could
crash with:

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at f573fc8c
IP: [<c01abc54>] swap_count_continued+0x104/0x180
*pdpt = 000000002a3b9027 *pde = 0000000001bed067 *pte = 0000000000000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in:
Pid: 1638, comm: apache2 Not tainted 3.0.4-linode37 #1
EIP: 0061:[<c01abc54>] EFLAGS: 00210246 CPU: 3
EIP is at swap_count_continued+0x104/0x180
.. snip..
Call Trace:
 [<c01ac222>] ? __swap_duplicate+0xc2/0x160
 [<c01040f7>] ? pte_mfn_to_pfn+0x87/0xe0
 [<c01ac2e4>] ? swap_duplicate+0x14/0x40
 [<c01a0a6b>] ? copy_pte_range+0x45b/0x500
 [<c01a0ca5>] ? copy_page_range+0x195/0x200
 [<c01328c6>] ? dup_mmap+0x1c6/0x2c0
 [<c0132cf8>] ? dup_mm+0xa8/0x130
 [<c013376a>] ? copy_process+0x98a/0xb30
 [<c013395f>] ? do_fork+0x4f/0x280
 [<c01573b3>] ? getnstimeofday+0x43/0x100
 [<c010f770>] ? sys_clone+0x30/0x40
 [<c06c048d>] ? ptregs_clone+0x15/0x48
 [<c06bfb71>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb

The problem is that in copy_page_range() we turn lazy mode on,
and then in swap_entry_free() we call swap_count_continued()
which ends up in:

         map = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0) + offset;

and then later we touch *map.

Since we are running in batched mode (lazy) we don't actually
set up the PTE mappings and the kmap_atomic is not done
synchronously and ends up trying to dereference a page that has
not been set.

Looking at kmap_atomic_prot_pfn(), it uses
'arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode' and doing the same in
kmap_atomic_prot() and __kunmap_atomic() makes the problem go
away.

Interestingly, commit b8bcfe997e4615 ("x86/paravirt: remove lazy
mode in interrupts") removed part of this to fix an interrupt
issue - but it went to far and did not consider this scenario.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>