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mm: Fix warning in insert_pfn()
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 22:10:47 +0000 (15:10 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:54:17 +0000 (08:54 -0700)
commitf2c57d91b0d96aa13ccff4e3b178038f17b00658
treeb703f6e9b565550cb11eb1cb9f21a33d396a6257
parentdee6da22efac451d361f5224a60be2796d847b51
mm: Fix warning in insert_pfn()

In DAX mode a write pagefault can race with write(2) in the following
way:

CPU0                            CPU1
                                write fault for mapped zero page (hole)
dax_iomap_rw()
  iomap_apply()
    xfs_file_iomap_begin()
      - allocates blocks
    dax_iomap_actor()
      invalidate_inode_pages2_range()
        - invalidates radix tree entries in given range
                                dax_iomap_pte_fault()
                                  grab_mapping_entry()
                                    - no entry found, creates empty
                                  ...
                                  xfs_file_iomap_begin()
                                    - finds already allocated block
                                  ...
                                  vmf_insert_mixed_mkwrite()
                                    - WARNs and does nothing because there
                                      is still zero page mapped in PTE
        unmap_mapping_pages()

This race results in WARN_ON from insert_pfn() and is occasionally
triggered by fstest generic/344. Note that the race is otherwise
harmless as before write(2) on CPU0 is finished, we will invalidate page
tables properly and thus user of mmap will see modified data from
write(2) from that point on. So just restrict the warning only to the
case when the PFN in PTE is not zero page.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180824154542.26872-1-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memory.c