UBUNTU: SAUCE: mm: disable vma based swap readahead by default
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1732463 Starting with 4.14 our test for CVE-2015-7550 started oopsing the kernel on i386 with the following stack trace: EIP: __radix_tree_lookup+0x15/0xf0 EFLAGS: 00010292 CPU: 2 EAX: 00000004 EBX: b7e77000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000000 ESI: 00000000 EDI: 00000000 EBP: dcfb1da4 ESP: dcfb1d8c DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 CR0: 80050033 CR2: 00000008 CR3: 1cd15dc0 CR4: 000006f0 Call Trace: radix_tree_lookup_slot+0x1d/0x40 find_get_entry+0x22/0xe0 pagecache_get_page+0x24/0x220 lookup_swap_cache+0x3a/0xf0 swap_readahead_detect+0x55/0x280 do_swap_page+0x232/0x890 ? keyring_search_aux+0x96/0xb0 ? kmap_atomic_prot+0xe0/0x100 handle_mm_fault+0x6f8/0xe20 ? lookup_user_key+0xef/0x450 __do_page_fault+0x22d/0x540 ? kvm_async_pf_task_wake+0x100/0x100 do_page_fault+0x27/0xe0 ? kvm_async_pf_task_wake+0x100/0x100 do_async_page_fault+0x55/0x90 common_exception+0x6f/0x76 I'm not able to reproduce this outside of ADT, but vma based swap readahead is a new feature in 4.14 so it seems quite likely that this is where the bug lies. However I'm not able to reproduce the problem outside of ADT to confirm this. So for now disable this feature by default so we can see if that gets the test to pass. It can still be enabled by writing to /sys/kernel/mm/swap/vma_ra_enabled if desired. Signed-off-by:Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
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