From: Andrea Arcangeli Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 00:16:28 +0000 (-0800) Subject: userfaultfd: shmem: __do_fault requires VM_FAULT_NOPAGE X-Git-Tag: v4.4.107~96 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ee9be99630398c907261042ed092612bcbfaa69d;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git userfaultfd: shmem: __do_fault requires VM_FAULT_NOPAGE [ Upstream commit 6bbc4a4144b1a69743022ac68dfaf6e7d993abb9 ] __do_fault assumes vmf->page has been initialized and is valid if VM_FAULT_NOPAGE is not returned by vma->vm_ops->fault(vma, vmf). handle_userfault() in turn should return VM_FAULT_NOPAGE if it doesn't return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS or VM_FAULT_RETRY (the other two possibilities). This VM_FAULT_NOPAGE case is only invoked when signal are pending and it didn't matter for anonymous memory before. It only started to matter since shmem was introduced. hugetlbfs also takes a different path and doesn't exercise __do_fault. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170228154201.GH5816@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/fs/userfaultfd.c b/fs/userfaultfd.c index 66cdb44616d5a..59d58bdad7d3a 100644 --- a/fs/userfaultfd.c +++ b/fs/userfaultfd.c @@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ int handle_userfault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, * in such case. */ down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); - ret = 0; + ret = VM_FAULT_NOPAGE; } }