3.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>

commit 9cc3a5bd40067b9a0fbd49199d0780463fc2140f upstream.

With applying the previous patch "hugetlbfs: stop setting VM_DONTDUMP in
initializing vma(VM_HUGETLB)" to reenable hugepage coredump, if a memory
error happens on a hugepage and the affected processes try to access the
error hugepage, we hit VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count) <= 0) in
get_page().

The reason for this bug is that coredump-related code doesn't recognise
"hugepage hwpoison entry" with which a pmd entry is replaced when a memory
error occurs on a hugepage.

In other words, physical address information is stored in different bit
layout between hugepage hwpoison entry and pmd entry, so
follow_hugetlb_page() which is called in get_dump_page() returns a wrong
page from a given address.

The expected behavior is like this:

  absent   is_swap_pte   FOLL_DUMP   Expected behavior
  -------------------------------------------------------------------
   true     false         false       hugetlb_fault
   false    true          false       hugetlb_fault
   false    false         false       return page
   true     false         true        skip page (to avoid allocation)
   false    true          true        hugetlb_fault
   false    false         true        return page

With this patch, we can call hugetlb_fault() and take proper actions (we
wait for migration entries, fail with VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE for
hwpoisoned entries,) and as the result we can dump all hugepages except
for hwpoisoned ones.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke <[email protected]>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 mm/hugetlb.c |   12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2906,7 +2906,17 @@ int follow_hugetlb_page(struct mm_struct
                        break;
                }
 
-               if (absent ||
+               /*
+                * We need call hugetlb_fault for both hugepages under migration
+                * (in which case hugetlb_fault waits for the migration,) and
+                * hwpoisoned hugepages (in which case we need to prevent the
+                * caller from accessing to them.) In order to do this, we use
+                * here is_swap_pte instead of is_hugetlb_entry_migration and
+                * is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned. This is because it simply covers
+                * both cases, and because we can't follow correct pages
+                * directly from any kind of swap entries.
+                */
+               if (absent || is_swap_pte(huge_ptep_get(pte)) ||
                    ((flags & FOLL_WRITE) && !pte_write(huge_ptep_get(pte)))) {
                        int ret;
 


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