Patch "ksm: fix unlocked iteration over vmas in cmp_and_merge_page()" has been added to the 4.13-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    ksm: fix unlocked iteration over vmas in cmp_and_merge_page()

to the 4.13-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-fix-unlocked-iteration-over-vmas-in-cmp_and_merge_page.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.13 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 4b22927f0cbd58303aac689e378d20bf56267a39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 16:14:27 -0700
Subject: ksm: fix unlocked iteration over vmas in cmp_and_merge_page()

From: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>

commit 4b22927f0cbd58303aac689e378d20bf56267a39 upstream.

In this place mm is unlocked, so vmas or list may change.  Down read
mmap_sem to protect them from modifications.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/150512788393.10691.8868381099691121308.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Fixes: e86c59b1b12d ("mm/ksm: improve deduplication of zero pages with colouring")
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "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 |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -1990,6 +1990,7 @@ static void stable_tree_append(struct rm
  */
 static void cmp_and_merge_page(struct page *page, struct rmap_item *rmap_item)
 {
+	struct mm_struct *mm = rmap_item->mm;
 	struct rmap_item *tree_rmap_item;
 	struct page *tree_page = NULL;
 	struct stable_node *stable_node;
@@ -2062,9 +2063,11 @@ static void cmp_and_merge_page(struct pa
 	if (ksm_use_zero_pages && (checksum == zero_checksum)) {
 		struct vm_area_struct *vma;
 
-		vma = find_mergeable_vma(rmap_item->mm, rmap_item->address);
+		down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+		vma = find_mergeable_vma(mm, rmap_item->address);
 		err = try_to_merge_one_page(vma, page,
 					    ZERO_PAGE(rmap_item->address));
+		up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 		/*
 		 * In case of failure, the page was not really empty, so we
 		 * need to continue. Otherwise we're done.


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ktkhai@virtuozzo.com are

queue-4.13/ksm-fix-unlocked-iteration-over-vmas-in-cmp_and_merge_page.patch