hugetlb: fix infinite loop in get_futex_key() when backed by huge pages
authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:17:56 +0000 (13:17 -0400)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:31:25 +0000 (11:31 -0700)
commit23be7468e8802a2ac1de6ee3eecb3ec7f14dc703
tree2c01e547594b8d7f32ddda47b6bea284d8f19761
parent9a6a1ecd9e9b5d046a236da2f7eb6b6812f04229
hugetlb: fix infinite loop in get_futex_key() when backed by huge pages

If a futex key happens to be located within a huge page mapped
MAP_PRIVATE, get_futex_key() can go into an infinite loop waiting for a
page->mapping that will never exist.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552257 for more details
about the problem.

This patch makes page->mapping a poisoned value that includes
PAGE_MAPPING_ANON mapped MAP_PRIVATE.  This is enough for futex to
continue but because of PAGE_MAPPING_ANON, the poisoned value is not
dereferenced or used by futex.  No other part of the VM should be
dereferencing the page->mapping of a hugetlbfs page as its page cache is
not on the LRU.

This patch fixes the problem with the test case described in the bugzilla.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: mel cant spel]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/poison.h
mm/hugetlb.c