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mm: fix corner case in anon_vma endless growing prevention

Fix for BUG_ON(anon_vma->degree) splashes in unlink_anon_vmas() ("kernel
BUG at mm/rmap.c:399!") caused by commit 7a3ef208e662 ("mm: prevent
endless growth of anon_vma hierarchy")

Anon_vma_clone() is usually called for a copy of source vma in
destination argument. If source vma has anon_vma it should be already
in dst->anon_vma. NULL in dst->anon_vma is used as a sign that it's
called from anon_vma_fork(). In this case anon_vma_clone() finds
anon_vma for reusing.

Vma_adjust() calls it differently and this breaks anon_vma reusing
logic: anon_vma_clone() links vma to old anon_vma and updates degree
counters but vma_adjust() overrides vma->anon_vma right after that. As
a result final unlink_anon_vmas() decrements degree for wrong anon_vma.

This patch assigns ->anon_vma before calling anon_vma_clone().

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Chris Clayton <chris2553@googlemail.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@amd.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Chih-Wei Huang <cwhuang@android-x86.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Daniel Forrest <dan.forrest@ssec.wisc.edu>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # to match back-porting of 7a3ef208e662
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

authored by

Konstantin Khlebnikov and committed by
Linus Torvalds
b800c91a 690eac53

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+5 -3
mm/mmap.c
··· 778 778 if (exporter && exporter->anon_vma && !importer->anon_vma) { 779 779 int error; 780 780 781 - error = anon_vma_clone(importer, exporter); 782 - if (error) 783 - return error; 784 781 importer->anon_vma = exporter->anon_vma; 782 + error = anon_vma_clone(importer, exporter); 783 + if (error) { 784 + importer->anon_vma = NULL; 785 + return error; 786 + } 785 787 } 786 788 } 787 789