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Vlastimil Babka 1d26c11295 mm, page_alloc: do not break __GFP_THISNODE by zonelist reset 
commit 7810e6781e upstream.

In __alloc_pages_slowpath() we reset zonelist and preferred_zoneref for
allocations that can ignore memory policies.  The zonelist is obtained
from current CPU's node.  This is a problem for __GFP_THISNODE
allocations that want to allocate on a different node, e.g.  because the
allocating thread has been migrated to a different CPU.

This has been observed to break SLAB in our 4.4-based kernel, because
there it relies on __GFP_THISNODE working as intended.  If a slab page
is put on wrong node's list, then further list manipulations may corrupt
the list because page_to_nid() is used to determine which node's
list_lock should be locked and thus we may take a wrong lock and race.

Current SLAB implementation seems to be immune by luck thanks to commit
511e3a0588 ("mm/slab: make cache_grow() handle the page allocated on
arbitrary node") but there may be others assuming that __GFP_THISNODE
works as promised.

We can fix it by simply removing the zonelist reset completely.  There
is actually no reason to reset it, because memory policies and cpusets
don't affect the zonelist choice in the first place.  This was different
when commit 183f6371aa ("mm: ignore mempolicies when using
ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK") introduced the code, as mempolicies provided their
own restricted zonelists.

We might consider this for 4.17 although I don't know if there's
anything currently broken.

SLAB is currently not affected, but in kernels older than 4.7 that don't
yet have 511e3a0588 ("mm/slab: make cache_grow() handle the page
allocated on arbitrary node") it is.  That's at least 4.4 LTS.  Older
ones I'll have to check.

So stable backports should be more important, but will have to be
reviewed carefully, as the code went through many changes.  BTW I think
that also the ac->preferred_zoneref reset is currently useless if we
don't also reset ac->nodemask from a mempolicy to NULL first (which we
probably should for the OOM victims etc?), but I would leave that for a
separate patch.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180525130853.13915-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Fixes: 183f6371aa ("mm: ignore mempolicies when using ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK")
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
 		2018-06-26 08:06:33 +08:00
Documentation dt-bindings: panel: lvds: Fix path to display timing bindings 2018-06-21 04:02:51 +09:00
arch x86/intel_rdt: Enable CMT and MBM on new Skylake stepping 2018-06-26 08:06:32 +08:00
block blk-mq: reinit q->tag_set_list entry only after grace period 2018-06-26 08:06:32 +08:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto PKCS#7: fix direct verification of SignerInfo signature 2018-05-30 07:52:01 +02:00
drivers vhost: fix info leak due to uninitialized memory 2018-06-26 08:06:33 +08:00
firmware License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
fs fs/binfmt_misc.c: do not allow offset overflow 2018-06-26 08:06:33 +08:00
include net: in virtio_net_hdr only add VLAN_HLEN to csum_start if payload holds vlan 2018-06-26 08:06:28 +08:00
init init: fix false positives in W+X checking 2018-06-21 04:02:57 +09:00
ipc ipc/shm: fix shmat() nil address after round-down when remapping 2018-05-30 07:51:49 +02:00
kernel sched/deadline: Make the grub_reclaim() function static 2018-06-21 04:03:01 +09:00
lib lib/test_kmod.c: fix limit check on number of test devices created 2018-05-30 07:52:14 +02:00
mm mm, page_alloc: do not break __GFP_THISNODE by zonelist reset 2018-06-26 08:06:33 +08:00
net tls: fix use-after-free in tls_push_record 2018-06-26 08:06:29 +08:00
samples samples/bpf: Partially fixes the bpf.o build 2018-04-26 11:02:12 +02:00
scripts kconfig: Avoid format overflow warning from GCC 8.1 2018-06-11 22:49:18 +02:00
security selinux: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in xattr_getsecurity 2018-06-05 11:41:56 +02:00
sound ALSA: hda: add dock and led support for HP ProBook 640 G4 2018-06-26 08:06:30 +08:00
tools x86/pkeys/selftests: Add a test for pkey 0 2018-06-21 04:02:59 +09:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: fix possible spectre-v1 in vgic_mmio_read_apr() 2018-06-21 04:02:49 +09:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: keep spec file until make mrproper 2018-02-13 10:19:46 +01:00
.mailmap .mailmap: Add Maciej W. Rozycki's Imagination e-mail address 2017-11-10 12:16:15 -08:00
COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS dt-bindings: Document mti,mips-cpc binding 2018-03-15 10:54:35 +01:00
Makefile Linux 4.14.51 2018-06-21 04:03:02 +09:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.