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SubjectRe: [PATCH v1] mm: hugetlb: call huge_pte_alloc() only if ptep is null
On Thu, 26 Nov 2015, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:

> Currently at the beginning of hugetlb_fault(), we call huge_pte_offset()
> and check whether the obtained *ptep is a migration/hwpoison entry or not.
> And if not, then we get to call huge_pte_alloc(). This is racy because the
> *ptep could turn into migration/hwpoison entry after the huge_pte_offset()
> check. This race results in BUG_ON in huge_pte_alloc().
>
> We don't have to call huge_pte_alloc() when the huge_pte_offset() returns
> non-NULL, so let's fix this bug with moving the code into else block.
>
> Note that the *ptep could turn into a migration/hwpoison entry after
> this block, but that's not a problem because we have another !pte_present
> check later (we never go into hugetlb_no_page() in that case.)
>
> Fixes: 290408d4a250 ("hugetlb: hugepage migration core")
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [2.6.36+]

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

It would be nice to provide a sample of the BUG_ON() output in the commit
message, however, so people can quickly find this if greping for what they
just saw kill their machine.


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