From: Konstantin Khlebnikov Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 13:54:06 +0000 (+0300) Subject: mm: fix corner case in anon_vma endless growing prevention X-Git-Tag: v3.19-rc4~6 X-Git-Url: http://git.cascardo.info/?p=cascardo%2Flinux.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=b800c91a0517071156e772d4fb329ad33590da62 mm: fix corner case in anon_vma endless growing prevention Fix for BUG_ON(anon_vma->degree) splashes in unlink_anon_vmas() ("kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:399!") caused by commit 7a3ef208e662 ("mm: prevent endless growth of anon_vma hierarchy") Anon_vma_clone() is usually called for a copy of source vma in destination argument. If source vma has anon_vma it should be already in dst->anon_vma. NULL in dst->anon_vma is used as a sign that it's called from anon_vma_fork(). In this case anon_vma_clone() finds anon_vma for reusing. Vma_adjust() calls it differently and this breaks anon_vma reusing logic: anon_vma_clone() links vma to old anon_vma and updates degree counters but vma_adjust() overrides vma->anon_vma right after that. As a result final unlink_anon_vmas() decrements degree for wrong anon_vma. This patch assigns ->anon_vma before calling anon_vma_clone(). Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Reported-and-tested-by: Chris Clayton Reported-and-tested-by: Oded Gabbay Reported-and-tested-by: Chih-Wei Huang Acked-by: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Daniel Forrest Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # to match back-porting of 7a3ef208e662 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index 0bb74ca2139d..7f684d5a8087 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -778,10 +778,12 @@ again: remove_next = 1 + (end > next->vm_end); if (exporter && exporter->anon_vma && !importer->anon_vma) { int error; + importer->anon_vma = exporter->anon_vma; error = anon_vma_clone(importer, exporter); - if (error) + if (error) { + importer->anon_vma = NULL; return error; - importer->anon_vma = exporter->anon_vma; + } } }