tree 8ef00eeae9afaadcc8be5f0704c3b9c520307d6b
parent ee8f7fcbe638b07e8d1c3dc98e8be35e56306d05
author Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> 1470171742 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1470173501 -0400

mm: fail prefaulting if page table allocation fails

I ran into this:

    BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/page_alloc.c:3784
    in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 1434, name: trinity-c1
    2 locks held by trinity-c1/1434:
     #0:  (&mm->mmap_sem){......}, at: [<ffffffff810ce31e>] __do_page_fault+0x1ce/0x8f0
     #1:  (rcu_read_lock){......}, at: [<ffffffff81378f86>] filemap_map_pages+0xd6/0xdd0

    CPU: 0 PID: 1434 Comm: trinity-c1 Not tainted 4.7.0+ #58
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Ubuntu-1.8.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014
    Call Trace:
      dump_stack+0x65/0x84
      panic+0x185/0x2dd
      ___might_sleep+0x51c/0x600
      __might_sleep+0x90/0x1a0
      __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x5b1/0x2160
      alloc_pages_current+0xcc/0x370
      pte_alloc_one+0x12/0x90
      __pte_alloc+0x1d/0x200
      alloc_set_pte+0xe3e/0x14a0
      filemap_map_pages+0x42b/0xdd0
      handle_mm_fault+0x17d5/0x28b0
      __do_page_fault+0x310/0x8f0
      trace_do_page_fault+0x18d/0x310
      do_async_page_fault+0x27/0xa0
      async_page_fault+0x28/0x30

The important bits from the above is that filemap_map_pages() is calling
into the page allocator while holding rcu_read_lock (sleeping is not
allowed inside RCU read-side critical sections).

According to Kirill Shutemov, the prefaulting code in do_fault_around()
is supposed to take care of this, but missing error handling means that
the allocation failure can go unnoticed.

We don't need to return VM_FAULT_OOM (or any other error) here, since we
can just let the normal fault path try again.

Fixes: 7267ec008b5c ("mm: postpone page table allocation until we have page to map")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469708107-11868-1-git-send-email-vegard.nossum@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Hillf Danton" <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>