Skip to content
  • Hugh Dickins's avatar
    tmpfs: fix shmem_getpage_gfp() VM_BUG_ON · 215c02bc
    Hugh Dickins authored
    
    
    Fuzzing with trinity hit the "impossible" VM_BUG_ON(error) (which Fedora
    has converted to WARNING) in shmem_getpage_gfp():
    
      WARNING: at mm/shmem.c:1151 shmem_getpage_gfp+0xa5c/0xa70()
      Pid: 29795, comm: trinity-child4 Not tainted 3.7.0-rc2+ #49
      Call Trace:
        warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
        warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
        shmem_getpage_gfp+0xa5c/0xa70
        shmem_fault+0x4f/0xa0
        __do_fault+0x71/0x5c0
        handle_pte_fault+0x97/0xae0
        handle_mm_fault+0x289/0x350
        __do_page_fault+0x18e/0x530
        do_page_fault+0x2b/0x50
        page_fault+0x28/0x30
        tracesys+0xe1/0xe6
    
    Thanks to Johannes for pointing to truncation: free_swap_and_cache()
    only does a trylock on the page, so the page lock we've held since
    before confirming swap is not enough to protect against truncation.
    
    What cleanup is needed in this case? Just delete_from_swap_cache(),
    which takes care of the memcg uncharge.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
    Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.com>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    215c02bc