Patch "ksm: prevent crash after write_protect_page fails" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    ksm: prevent crash after write_protect_page fails

to the 4.9-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:
     ksm-prevent-crash-after-write_protect_page-fails.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 a7306c3436e9c8e584a4b9fad5f3dc91be2a6076 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 14:46:11 -0700
Subject: ksm: prevent crash after write_protect_page fails

From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>

commit a7306c3436e9c8e584a4b9fad5f3dc91be2a6076 upstream.

"err" needs to be left set to -EFAULT if split_huge_page succeeds.
Otherwise if "err" gets clobbered with zero and write_protect_page
fails, try_to_merge_one_page() will succeed instead of returning -EFAULT
and then try_to_merge_with_ksm_page() will continue thinking kpage is a
PageKsm when in fact it's still an anonymous page.  Eventually it'll
crash in page_add_anon_rmap.

This has been reproduced on Fedora25 kernel but I can reproduce with
upstream too.

The bug was introduced in commit f765f540598a ("ksm: prepare to new THP
semantics") introduced in v4.5.

    page:fffff67546ce1cc0 count:4 mapcount:2 mapping:ffffa094551e36e1 index:0x7f0f46673
    flags: 0x2ffffc0004007c(referenced|uptodate|dirty|lru|active|swapbacked)
    page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page))
    page->mem_cgroup:ffffa09674bf0000
    ------------[ cut here ]------------
    kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:1222!
    CPU: 1 PID: 76 Comm: ksmd Not tainted 4.9.3-200.fc25.x86_64 #1
    RIP: do_page_add_anon_rmap+0x1c4/0x240
    Call Trace:
      page_add_anon_rmap+0x18/0x20
      try_to_merge_with_ksm_page+0x50b/0x780
      ksm_scan_thread+0x1211/0x1410
      ? prepare_to_wait_event+0x100/0x100
      ? try_to_merge_with_ksm_page+0x780/0x780
      kthread+0xd9/0xf0
      ? kthread_park+0x60/0x60
      ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30

Fixes: f765f54059 ("ksm: prepare to new THP semantics")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170513131040.21732-1-aarcange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Federico Simoncelli <fsimonce@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.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/ksm.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -1002,8 +1002,7 @@ static int try_to_merge_one_page(struct
 		goto out;
 
 	if (PageTransCompound(page)) {
-		err = split_huge_page(page);
-		if (err)
+		if (split_huge_page(page))
 			goto out_unlock;
 	}
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aarcange@redhat.com are

queue-4.9/ksm-prevent-crash-after-write_protect_page-fails.patch