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Commit 6d67b2a7 authored by Yang Shi's avatar Yang Shi Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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mm: khugepaged: skip huge page collapse for special files

commit a4aeaa06 upstream.

The read-only THP for filesystems will collapse THP for files opened
readonly and mapped with VM_EXEC.  The intended usecase is to avoid TLB
misses for large text segments.  But it doesn't restrict the file types
so a THP could be collapsed for a non-regular file, for example, block
device, if it is opened readonly and mapped with EXEC permission.  This
may cause bugs, like [1] and [2].

This is definitely not the intended usecase, so just collapse THP for
regular files in order to close the attack surface.

[shy828301@gmail.com: fix vm_file check [3]]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CACkBjsYwLYLRmX8GpsDpMthagWOjWWrNxqY6ZLNQVr6yx+f5vA@mail.gmail.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/000000000000c6a82505ce284e4c@google.com/ [2]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHbLzkqTW9U3VvTu1Ki5v_cLRC9gHW+znBukg_ycergE0JWj-A@mail.gmail.com [3]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211027195221.3825-1-shy828301@gmail.com
Fixes: 99cb0dbd

 ("mm,thp: add read-only THP support for (non-shmem) FS")
Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Reported-by: default avatarHao Sun <sunhao.th@gmail.com>
Reported-by: default avatar <syzbot+aae069be1de40fb11825@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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