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Michal Hocko 4d4bbd8526 mm, oom_reaper: skip mm structs with mmu notifiers
Andrea has noticed that the oom_reaper doesn't invalidate the range via
mmu notifiers (mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start/end) and that can
corrupt the memory of the kvm guest for example.

tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly already invokes mmu notifiers but that is not
sufficient as per Andrea:

 "mmu_notifier_invalidate_range cannot be used in replacement of
  mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start/end. For KVM
  mmu_notifier_invalidate_range is a noop and rightfully so. A MMU
  notifier implementation has to implement either ->invalidate_range
  method or the invalidate_range_start/end methods, not both. And if you
  implement invalidate_range_start/end like KVM is forced to do, calling
  mmu_notifier_invalidate_range in common code is a noop for KVM.

  For those MMU notifiers that can get away only implementing
  ->invalidate_range, the ->invalidate_range is implicitly called by
  mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(). And only those secondary MMUs
  that share the same pagetable with the primary MMU (like AMD iommuv2)
  can get away only implementing ->invalidate_range"

As the callback is allowed to sleep and the implementation is out of
hand of the MM it is safer to simply bail out if there is an mmu
notifier registered.  In order to not fail too early make the
mm_has_notifiers check under the oom_lock and have a little nap before
failing to give the current oom victim some more time to exit.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170913113427.2291-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Fixes: aac4536355 ("mm, oom: introduce oom reaper")
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-10-03 17:54:24 -07:00
Documentation Merge branch 'for-4.14-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2017-10-03 10:44:03 -07:00
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include mm, oom_reaper: skip mm structs with mmu notifiers 2017-10-03 17:54:24 -07:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.