ksm: prevent crash after write_protect_page fails

"err" needs to be left set to -EFAULT if split_huge_page succeeds.
Otherwise if "err" gets clobbered with zero and write_protect_page
fails, try_to_merge_one_page() will succeed instead of returning -EFAULT
and then try_to_merge_with_ksm_page() will continue thinking kpage is a
PageKsm when in fact it's still an anonymous page.  Eventually it'll
crash in page_add_anon_rmap.

This has been reproduced on Fedora25 kernel but I can reproduce with
upstream too.

The bug was introduced in commit f765f540598a ("ksm: prepare to new THP
semantics") introduced in v4.5.

    page:fffff67546ce1cc0 count:4 mapcount:2 mapping:ffffa094551e36e1 index:0x7f0f46673
    flags: 0x2ffffc0004007c(referenced|uptodate|dirty|lru|active|swapbacked)
    page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page))
    page->mem_cgroup:ffffa09674bf0000
    ------------[ cut here ]------------
    kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:1222!
    CPU: 1 PID: 76 Comm: ksmd Not tainted 4.9.3-200.fc25.x86_64 #1
    RIP: do_page_add_anon_rmap+0x1c4/0x240
    Call Trace:
      page_add_anon_rmap+0x18/0x20
      try_to_merge_with_ksm_page+0x50b/0x780
      ksm_scan_thread+0x1211/0x1410
      ? prepare_to_wait_event+0x100/0x100
      ? try_to_merge_with_ksm_page+0x780/0x780
      kthread+0xd9/0xf0
      ? kthread_park+0x60/0x60
      ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30

Fixes: f765f54059 ("ksm: prepare to new THP semantics")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170513131040.21732-1-aarcange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Federico Simoncelli <fsimonce@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index d9fc0e4561283d9a351f6dd7c4cfb74ad26ab566..216184af0e192b5405efc5a594129fa7c53ae953 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -1028,8 +1028,7 @@ static int try_to_merge_one_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
                goto out;
 
        if (PageTransCompound(page)) {
-               err = split_huge_page(page);
-               if (err)
+               if (split_huge_page(page))
                        goto out_unlock;
        }