Patch "hugetlb: fix nr_pmds accounting with shared page tables" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Patch "hugetlb: fix nr_pmds accounting with shared page tables" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    hugetlb: fix nr_pmds accounting with shared page tables

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     hugetlb-fix-nr_pmds-accounting-with-shared-page-tables.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From c17b1f42594eb71b8d3eb5a6dfc907a7eb88a51d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 14:49:51 -0700
Subject: hugetlb: fix nr_pmds accounting with shared page tables

From: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>

commit c17b1f42594eb71b8d3eb5a6dfc907a7eb88a51d upstream.

We account HugeTLB's shared page table to all processes who share it.
The accounting happens during huge_pmd_share().

If somebody populates pud entry under us, we should decrease pagetable's
refcount and decrease nr_pmds of the process.

By mistake, I increase nr_pmds again in this case.  :-/ It will lead to
"BUG: non-zero nr_pmds on freeing mm: 2" on process' exit.

Let's fix this by increasing nr_pmds only when we're sure that the page
table will be used.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160617122506.GC6534@node.shutemov.name
Fixes: dc6c9a35b66b ("mm: account pmd page tables to the process")
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: zhongjiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.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>

---
 mm/hugetlb.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -4213,7 +4213,6 @@ pte_t *huge_pmd_share(struct mm_struct *
 		if (saddr) {
 			spte = huge_pte_offset(svma->vm_mm, saddr);
 			if (spte) {
-				mm_inc_nr_pmds(mm);
 				get_page(virt_to_page(spte));
 				break;
 			}
@@ -4228,9 +4227,9 @@ pte_t *huge_pmd_share(struct mm_struct *
 	if (pud_none(*pud)) {
 		pud_populate(mm, pud,
 				(pmd_t *)((unsigned long)spte & PAGE_MASK));
+		mm_inc_nr_pmds(mm);
 	} else {
 		put_page(virt_to_page(spte));
-		mm_inc_nr_pmds(mm);
 	}
 	spin_unlock(ptl);
 out:


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com are

queue-4.4/hugetlb-fix-nr_pmds-accounting-with-shared-page-tables.patch