mm,memory_failure: always pin the page in madvise_inject_error
madvise_inject_error() uses get_user_pages_fast to translate the address we specified to a page. After [1], we drop the extra reference count for memory_failure() path. That commit says that memory_failure wanted to keep the pin in order to take the page out of circulation. The truth is that we need to keep the page pinned, otherwise the page might be re-used after the put_page() and we can end up messing with someone else's memory. E.g: CPU0 process X CPU1 madvise_inject_error get_user_pages put_page page gets reclaimed process Y allocates the page memory_failure // We mess with process Y memory madvise() is meant to operate on a self address space, so messing with pages that do not belong to us seems the wrong thing to do. To avoid that, let us keep the page pinned for memory_failure as well. Pages for DAX mappings will release this extra refcount in memory_failure_dev_pagemap. [1] ("23e7b5c2: mm, madvise_inject_error: Let memory_failure() optionally take a page reference") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201207094818.8518-1-osalvador@suse.de Fixes: 23e7b5c2 ("mm, madvise_inject_error: Let memory_failure() optionally take a page reference") Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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