mm: fix false-positive warning on exit due mm_nr_pmds(mm)

The problem is that we check nr_ptes/nr_pmds in exit_mmap() which happens
*before* pgd_free().  And if an arch does pte/pmd allocation in
pgd_alloc() and frees them in pgd_free() we see offset in counters by the
time of the checks.

We tried to workaround this by offsetting expected counter value according
to FIRST_USER_ADDRESS for both nr_pte and nr_pmd in exit_mmap().  But it
doesn't work in some cases:

1. ARM with LPAE enabled also has non-zero USER_PGTABLES_CEILING, but
   upper addresses occupied with huge pmd entries, so the trick with
   offsetting expected counter value will get really ugly: we will have
   to apply it nr_pmds, but not nr_ptes.

2. Metag has non-zero FIRST_USER_ADDRESS, but doesn't do allocation
   pte/pmd page tables allocation in pgd_alloc(), just setup a pgd entry
   which is allocated at boot and shared accross all processes.

The proposal is to move the check to check_mm() which happens *after*
pgd_free() and do proper accounting during pgd_alloc() and pgd_free()
which would bring counters to zero if nothing leaked.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Tyler Baker <tyler.baker@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Tyler Baker <tyler.baker@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/pgd.c b/arch/arm/mm/pgd.c
index 249379535be..a3681f11dd9 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/pgd.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/pgd.c
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ pgd_t *pgd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm)
 
 no_pte:
 	pmd_free(mm, new_pmd);
+	mm_dec_nr_pmds(mm);
 no_pmd:
 	pud_free(mm, new_pud);
 no_pud:
@@ -130,9 +131,11 @@ void pgd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd_base)
 	pte = pmd_pgtable(*pmd);
 	pmd_clear(pmd);
 	pte_free(mm, pte);
+	atomic_long_dec(&mm->nr_ptes);
 no_pmd:
 	pud_clear(pud);
 	pmd_free(mm, pmd);
+	mm_dec_nr_pmds(mm);
 no_pud:
 	pgd_clear(pgd);
 	pud_free(mm, pud);
@@ -152,6 +155,7 @@ no_pgd:
 		pmd = pmd_offset(pud, 0);
 		pud_clear(pud);
 		pmd_free(mm, pmd);
+		mm_dec_nr_pmds(mm);
 		pgd_clear(pgd);
 		pud_free(mm, pud);
 	}