From: Leon Yu <[email protected]>

This patch has been added to the 3.18 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.

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[ Upstream commit 3fe89b3e2a7bbf3e97657104b9b33a9d81b950b3 ]

I have constantly stumbled upon "kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:399!" after
upgrading to 3.19 and had no luck with 4.0-rc1 neither.

So, after looking into new logic introduced by commit 7a3ef208e662 ("mm:
prevent endless growth of anon_vma hierarchy"), I found chances are that
unlink_anon_vmas() is called without incrementing dst->anon_vma->degree
in anon_vma_clone() due to allocation failure.  If dst->anon_vma is not
NULL in error path, its degree will be incorrectly decremented in
unlink_anon_vmas() and eventually underflow when exiting as a result of
another call to unlink_anon_vmas().  That's how "kernel BUG at
mm/rmap.c:399!" is triggered for me.

This patch fixes the underflow by dropping dst->anon_vma when allocation
fails.  It's safe to do so regardless of original value of dst->anon_vma
because dst->anon_vma doesn't have valid meaning if anon_vma_clone()
fails.  Besides, callers don't care dst->anon_vma in such case neither.

Also suggested by Michal Hocko, we can clean up vma_adjust() a bit as
anon_vma_clone() now does the work.

[[email protected]: tweak comment]
Fixes: 7a3ef208e662 ("mm: prevent endless growth of anon_vma hierarchy")
Signed-off-by: Leon Yu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
---
 mm/mmap.c | 2 +-
 mm/rmap.c | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 3c83bec..f88b4f9 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -778,10 +778,10 @@ again:                    remove_next = 1 + (end > 
next->vm_end);
                if (exporter && exporter->anon_vma && !importer->anon_vma) {
                        int error;
 
+                       importer->anon_vma = exporter->anon_vma;
                        error = anon_vma_clone(importer, exporter);
                        if (error)
                                return error;
-                       importer->anon_vma = exporter->anon_vma;
                }
        }
 
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 3e4c721..eeafed7 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -261,6 +261,13 @@ int anon_vma_clone(struct vm_area_struct *dst, struct 
vm_area_struct *src)
        return 0;
 
  enomem_failure:
+       /*
+        * dst->anon_vma is dropped here otherwise its degree can be incorrectly
+        * decremented in unlink_anon_vmas().
+        * We can safely do this because callers of anon_vma_clone() don't care
+        * about dst->anon_vma if anon_vma_clone() failed.
+        */
+       dst->anon_vma = NULL;
        unlink_anon_vmas(dst);
        return -ENOMEM;
 }
-- 
2.1.0

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