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Huang Ying 62160e348e mm, swap, frontswap: fix THP swap if frontswap enabled 
commit 7ba716698c upstream.

It was reported by Sergey Senozhatsky that if THP (Transparent Huge
Page) and frontswap (via zswap) are both enabled, when memory goes low
so that swap is triggered, segfault and memory corruption will occur in
random user space applications as follow,

kernel: urxvt[338]: segfault at 20 ip 00007fc08889ae0d sp 00007ffc73a7fc40 error 6 in libc-2.26.so[7fc08881a000+1ae000]
 #0  0x00007fc08889ae0d _int_malloc (libc.so.6)
 #1  0x00007fc08889c2f3 malloc (libc.so.6)
 #2  0x0000560e6004bff7 _Z14rxvt_wcstoutf8PKwi (urxvt)
 #3  0x0000560e6005e75c n/a (urxvt)
 #4  0x0000560e6007d9f1 _ZN16rxvt_perl_interp6invokeEP9rxvt_term9hook_typez (urxvt)
 #5  0x0000560e6003d988 _ZN9rxvt_term9cmd_parseEv (urxvt)
 #6  0x0000560e60042804 _ZN9rxvt_term6pty_cbERN2ev2ioEi (urxvt)
 #7  0x0000560e6005c10f _Z17ev_invoke_pendingv (urxvt)
 #8  0x0000560e6005cb55 ev_run (urxvt)
 #9  0x0000560e6003b9b9 main (urxvt)
 #10 0x00007fc08883af4a __libc_start_main (libc.so.6)
 #11 0x0000560e6003f9da _start (urxvt)

After bisection, it was found the first bad commit is bd4c82c22c ("mm,
THP, swap: delay splitting THP after swapped out").

The root cause is as follows:

When the pages are written to swap device during swapping out in
swap_writepage(), zswap (fontswap) is tried to compress the pages to
improve performance.  But zswap (frontswap) will treat THP as a normal
page, so only the head page is saved.  After swapping in, tail pages
will not be restored to their original contents, causing memory
corruption in the applications.

This is fixed by refusing to save page in the frontswap store functions
if the page is a THP.  So that the THP will be swapped out to swap
device.

Another choice is to split THP if frontswap is enabled.  But it is found
that the frontswap enabling isn't flexible.  For example, if
CONFIG_ZSWAP=y (cannot be module), frontswap will be enabled even if
zswap itself isn't enabled.

Frontswap has multiple backends, to make it easy for one backend to
enable THP support, the THP checking is put in backend frontswap store
functions instead of the general interfaces.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180209084947.22749-1-ying.huang@intel.com
Fixes: bd4c82c22c ("mm, THP, swap: delay splitting THP after swapped out")
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>	[put THP checking in backend]
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[4.14]
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>
History 2018-02-28 10:19:41 +01:00
arch x86/oprofile: Fix bogus GCC-8 warning in nmi_setup() 2018-02-28 10:19:41 +01:00
block blk_rq_map_user_iov: fix error override 2018-02-25 11:07:49 +01:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto PKCS#7: fix certificate blacklisting 2018-02-28 10:19:39 +01:00
Documentation ext4: correct documentation for grpid mount option 2018-02-22 15:42:26 +01:00
drivers mm, swap, frontswap: fix THP swap if frontswap enabled 2018-02-28 10:19:41 +01:00
firmware License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
fs btrfs: Fix possible off-by-one in btrfs_search_path_in_tree 2018-02-25 11:08:00 +01:00
include Kbuild: always define endianess in kconfig.h 2018-02-28 10:19:41 +01:00
init kmemcheck: stop using GFP_NOTRACK and SLAB_NOTRACK 2018-02-22 15:42:23 +01:00
ipc License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
kernel locking/lockdep: Fix possible NULL deref 2018-02-25 11:08:00 +01:00
lib 509: fix printing uninitialized stack memory when OID is empty 2018-02-25 11:08:01 +01:00
mm mm, swap, frontswap: fix THP swap if frontswap enabled 2018-02-28 10:19:41 +01:00
net cfg80211: fix cfg80211_beacon_dup 2018-02-28 10:19:39 +01:00
samples samples/bpf: adjust rlimit RLIMIT_MEMLOCK for xdp1 2017-12-20 10:10:31 +01:00
scripts scripts/kernel-doc: Don't fail with status != 0 if error encountered with -none 2018-02-25 11:07:58 +01:00
security selinux: skip bounded transition processing if the policy isn't loaded 2018-02-25 11:07:49 +01:00
sound ASoC: rsnd: ssi: fix race condition in rsnd_ssi_pointer_update 2018-02-25 11:08:02 +01:00
tools perf test: Fix test 21 for s390x 2018-02-25 11:07:55 +01:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: Fix spinlock acquisition in vgic_set_owner 2018-02-25 11:07:56 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: keep spec file until make mrproper 2018-02-13 10:19:46 +01:00
.mailmap .mailmap: Add Maciej W. Rozycki's Imagination e-mail address 2017-11-10 12:16:15 -08:00
COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS kmemcheck: rip it out 2018-02-22 15:42:24 +01:00
Makefile Linux 4.14.22 2018-02-25 11:08:04 +01:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.