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    dax: disable pmd mappings · ee82c9ed
    Dan Williams authored
    
    
    While dax pmd mappings are functional in the nominal path they trigger
    kernel crashes in the following paths:
    
     BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffea0004098000
     IP: [<ffffffff812362f7>] follow_trans_huge_pmd+0x117/0x3b0
     [..]
     Call Trace:
      [<ffffffff811f6573>] follow_page_mask+0x2d3/0x380
      [<ffffffff811f6708>] __get_user_pages+0xe8/0x6f0
      [<ffffffff811f7045>] get_user_pages_unlocked+0x165/0x1e0
      [<ffffffff8106f5b1>] get_user_pages_fast+0xa1/0x1b0
    
     kernel BUG at arch/x86/mm/gup.c:131!
     [..]
     Call Trace:
      [<ffffffff8106f34c>] gup_pud_range+0x1bc/0x220
      [<ffffffff8106f634>] get_user_pages_fast+0x124/0x1b0
    
     BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffea0004088000
     IP: [<ffffffff81235f49>] copy_huge_pmd+0x159/0x350
     [..]
     Call Trace:
      [<ffffffff811fad3c>] copy_page_range+0x34c/0x9f0
      [<ffffffff810a0daf>] copy_process+0x1b7f/0x1e10
      [<ffffffff810a11c1>] _do_fork+0x91/0x590
    
    All of these paths are interpreting a dax pmd mapping as a transparent
    huge page and making the assumption that the pfn is covered by the
    memmap, i.e. that the pfn has an associated struct page.  PTE mappings
    do not suffer the same fate since they have the _PAGE_SPECIAL flag to
    cause the gup path to fault.  We can do something similar for the PMD
    path, or otherwise defer pmd support for cases where a struct page is
    available.  For now, 4.4-rc and -stable need to disable dax pmd support
    by default.
    
    For development the "depends on BROKEN" line can be removed from
    CONFIG_FS_DAX_PMD.
    
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
    Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarRoss Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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