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Commit 87773dd5 authored by Shawn Bohrer's avatar Shawn Bohrer Committed by Roland Dreier
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IB: ib_umem_release() should decrement mm->pinned_vm from ib_umem_get

In debugging an application that receives -ENOMEM from ib_reg_mr(), I
found that ib_umem_get() can fail because the pinned_vm count has
wrapped causing it to always be larger than the lock limit even with
RLIMIT_MEMLOCK set to RLIM_INFINITY.

The wrapping of pinned_vm occurs because the process that calls
ib_reg_mr() will have its mm->pinned_vm count incremented.  Later a
different process with a different mm_struct than the one that
allocated the ib_umem struct ends up releasing it which results in
decrementing the new processes mm->pinned_vm count past zero and
wrapping.

I'm not entirely sure what circumstances cause a different process to
release the ib_umem than the one that allocated it but the kernel
stack trace of the freeing process from my situation looks like the
following:

    Call Trace:
     [<ffffffff814d64b1>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
     [<ffffffffa0b522a5>] ib_umem_release+0x1f5/0x200 [ib_core]
     [<ffffffffa0b90681>] ...
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