linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 147/178] s390/mm: fix CMMA vs KSM vs others

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Message-ID: <lsq.1500213406.140249768@decadent.org.uk>
Date:   Sun, 16 Jul 2017 14:56:46 +0100
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        "Martin Schwidefsky" <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        "Christian Borntraeger" <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 147/178] s390/mm: fix CMMA vs KSM vs others

3.16.46-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>

commit a8f60d1fadf7b8b54449fcc9d6b15248917478ba upstream.

On heavy paging with KSM I see guest data corruption. Turns out that
KSM will add pages to its tree, where the mapping return true for
pte_unused (or might become as such later).  KSM will unmap such pages
and reinstantiate with different attributes (e.g. write protected or
special, e.g. in replace_page or write_protect_page)). This uncovered
a bug in our pagetable handling: We must remove the unused flag as
soon as an entry becomes present again.

Signed-of-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -868,6 +868,8 @@ static inline void set_pte_at(struct mm_
 {
 	pgste_t pgste;

+	if (pte_present(entry))
+		pte_val(entry) &= ~_PAGE_UNUSED;
 	if (mm_has_pgste(mm)) {
 		pgste = pgste_get_lock(ptep);
 		pgste_val(pgste) &= ~_PGSTE_GPS_ZERO;