mm: khugepaged: close use-after-free race during shmem collapsing
commit 91a45f71 upstream. Patch series "mm: workingset: radix tree subtleties & single-page file refaults", v3. This is another revision of the radix tree / workingset patches based on feedback from Jan and Kirill. This is a follow-up to d3798ae8 ("mm: filemap: don't plant shadow entries without radix tree node"). That patch fixed an issue that was caused mainly by the page cache sneaking special shadow page entries into the radix tree and relying on subtleties in the radix tree code to make that work. The fix also had to stop tracking refaults for single-page files because shadow pages stored as direct pointers in radix_tree_root->rnode weren't properly handled during tree extension. These patches make the radix tree code explicitely support and track such special entries, to eliminate the subtleties and to restore the thrash detection for single-page files. This patch (of 9): When a radix tree iteration drops the tree lock, another thread might swoop in and free the node holding the current slot. The iteration needs to do another tree lookup from the current index to continue. [kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com: re-lookup for replacement] Fixes: f3f0e1d2 ("khugepaged: add support of collapse for tmpfs/shmem pages") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161117191138.22769-2-hannes@cmpxchg.orgSigned-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@linuxonhyperv.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>
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