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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-08-19 11:54:03 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-08-19 11:54:03 -0700
commit446bf64b613c4433dac4b15f4eaf326beaad3c8e (patch)
treeb20b9457234f6f9a5d7464213ef6d10f95f3eed3 /mm/hugetlb.c
parent20e79a0a2cfd15b6cfb18119f2e108396be56716 (diff)
parent06821504fd47a5e5b641aeeb638a0ae10a216ef8 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
Merge conflict of mlx5 resolved using instructions in merge commit 9566e650bf7fdf58384bb06df634f7531ca3a97e. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index ede7e7f5d1ab..6d7296dd11b8 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3856,6 +3856,25 @@ retry:
page = alloc_huge_page(vma, haddr, 0);
if (IS_ERR(page)) {
+ /*
+ * Returning error will result in faulting task being
+ * sent SIGBUS. The hugetlb fault mutex prevents two
+ * tasks from racing to fault in the same page which
+ * could result in false unable to allocate errors.
+ * Page migration does not take the fault mutex, but
+ * does a clear then write of pte's under page table
+ * lock. Page fault code could race with migration,
+ * notice the clear pte and try to allocate a page
+ * here. Before returning error, get ptl and make
+ * sure there really is no pte entry.
+ */
+ ptl = huge_pte_lock(h, mm, ptep);
+ if (!huge_pte_none(huge_ptep_get(ptep))) {
+ ret = 0;
+ spin_unlock(ptl);
+ goto out;
+ }
+ spin_unlock(ptl);
ret = vmf_error(PTR_ERR(page));
goto out;
}