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mm: make page ref count overflow check tighter and more explicit
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commit f958d7b upstream.

We have a VM_BUG_ON() to check that the page reference count doesn't
underflow (or get close to overflow) by checking the sign of the count.

That's all fine, but we actually want to allow people to use a "get page
ref unless it's already very high" helper function, and we want that one
to use the sign of the page ref (without triggering this VM_BUG_ON).

Change the VM_BUG_ON to only check for small underflows (or _very_ close
to overflowing), and ignore overflows which have strayed into negative
territory.

Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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torvalds authored and gregkh committed May 4, 2019
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Expand Up @@ -915,14 +915,18 @@ static inline bool is_device_public_page(const struct page *page)
}
#endif /* CONFIG_DEV_PAGEMAP_OPS */

/* 127: arbitrary random number, small enough to assemble well */
#define page_ref_zero_or_close_to_overflow(page) \
((unsigned int) page_ref_count(page) + 127u <= 127u)

static inline void get_page(struct page *page)
{
page = compound_head(page);
/*
* Getting a normal page or the head of a compound page
* requires to already have an elevated page->_refcount.
*/
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_ref_count(page) <= 0, page);
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_ref_zero_or_close_to_overflow(page), page);
page_ref_inc(page);
}

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