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Date:   Wed, 21 Jun 2017 22:27:51 +0200
From:   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        kernel test robot <xiaolong.ye@...el.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, LKP <lkp@...org>
Subject: Re: [lkp-robot] [mm] 1be7107fbe: kernel_BUG_at_mm/mmap.c

On 06/21, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 12:33 PM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:
> > -               if (unlikely(address + 65536 + 32 * sizeof(unsigned long) < regs->sp)) {
> > +if (0)         if (unlikely(address + 65536 + 32 * sizeof(unsigned long) < regs->sp)) {
>
> This smells bad.

Yes.

> That test is not about grow-down or even the guard page. That test is
> that it's always wrong to grow down the stack below %esp.

Sure.

but let me repeat that this test was essentially dismissed when the stack
guard page was introduced. Simply because do_page_pault() never hits (before
the recent patch) this need-to-grow-VM_GROWSDOWN-vma path if the stack grows
by less than PAGE_SIZE.

IOP. Suppose that an application does

	char * p = mmap(MAP_GROWSDOWN);
	for (;;)
		*p-- = 'x';

before the "larger stack guard gap, between vmas" change the stack was
enlarged by do_anonymous_page(), __do_page_fault() didn't hit this path.

Now __do_page_fault() tries to expand the stack itself, and this check
fails.

Oleg.