linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.12 344/700] dax: fix ENOMEM handling in grab_mapping

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Date:   Mon, 12 Jul 2021 08:07:07 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.12 344/700] dax: fix ENOMEM handling in grab_mapping_entry()

From: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

[ Upstream commit 1a14e3779dd58c16b30e56558146e5cc850ba8b0 ]

grab_mapping_entry() has a bug in handling of ENOMEM condition.  Suppose
we have a PMD entry at index i which we are downgrading to a PTE entry.
grab_mapping_entry() will set pmd_downgrade to true, lock the entry, clear
the entry in xarray, and decrement mapping->nrpages.  The it will call:

	entry = dax_make_entry(pfn_to_pfn_t(0), flags);
	dax_lock_entry(xas, entry);

which inserts new PTE entry into xarray.  However this may fail allocating
the new node.  We handle this by:

	if (xas_nomem(xas, mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) & ~__GFP_HIGHMEM))
		goto retry;

however pmd_downgrade stays set to true even though 'entry' returned from
get_unlocked_entry() will be NULL now.  And we will go again through the
downgrade branch.  This is mostly harmless except that mapping->nrpages is
decremented again and we temporarily have an invalid entry stored in
xarray.  Fix the problem by setting pmd_downgrade to false each time we
lookup the entry we work with so that it matches the entry we found.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210622160015.18004-1-jack@suse.cz
Fixes: b15cd800682f ("dax: Convert page fault handlers to XArray")
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 fs/dax.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
index df5485b4bddf..d5d7b9393bca 100644
--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -488,10 +488,11 @@ static void *grab_mapping_entry(struct xa_state *xas,
 		struct address_space *mapping, unsigned int order)
 {
 	unsigned long index = xas->xa_index;
-	bool pmd_downgrade = false; /* splitting PMD entry into PTE entries? */
+	bool pmd_downgrade;	/* splitting PMD entry into PTE entries? */
 	void *entry;
 
 retry:
+	pmd_downgrade = false;
 	xas_lock_irq(xas);
 	entry = get_unlocked_entry(xas, order);
 
-- 
2.30.2