Patch "thp: fix MADV_DONTNEED vs. MADV_FREE race" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    thp: fix MADV_DONTNEED vs. MADV_FREE race

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     thp-fix-madv_dontneed-vs.-madv_free-race.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 58ceeb6bec86d9140f9d91d71a710e963523d063 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:56:26 -0700
Subject: thp: fix MADV_DONTNEED vs. MADV_FREE race

From: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>

commit 58ceeb6bec86d9140f9d91d71a710e963523d063 upstream.

Both MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE handled with down_read(mmap_sem).

It's critical to not clear pmd intermittently while handling MADV_FREE
to avoid race with MADV_DONTNEED:

	CPU0:				CPU1:
				madvise_free_huge_pmd()
				 pmdp_huge_get_and_clear_full()
madvise_dontneed()
 zap_pmd_range()
  pmd_trans_huge(*pmd) == 0 (without ptl)
  // skip the pmd
				 set_pmd_at();
				 // pmd is re-established

It results in MADV_DONTNEED skipping the pmd, leaving it not cleared.
It violates MADV_DONTNEED interface and can result is userspace
misbehaviour.

Basically it's the same race as with numa balancing in
change_huge_pmd(), but a bit simpler to mitigate: we don't need to
preserve dirty/young flags here due to MADV_FREE functionality.

[kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com: Urgh... Power is special again]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170303102636.bhd2zhtpds4mt62a@black.fi.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170302151034.27829-4-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/huge_memory.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1380,8 +1380,7 @@ bool madvise_free_huge_pmd(struct mmu_ga
 		deactivate_page(page);
 
 	if (pmd_young(orig_pmd) || pmd_dirty(orig_pmd)) {
-		orig_pmd = pmdp_huge_get_and_clear_full(tlb->mm, addr, pmd,
-			tlb->fullmm);
+		pmdp_invalidate(vma, addr, pmd);
 		orig_pmd = pmd_mkold(orig_pmd);
 		orig_pmd = pmd_mkclean(orig_pmd);
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com are

queue-4.9/thp-fix-madv_dontneed-vs-clear-soft-dirty-race.patch
queue-4.9/thp-fix-madv_dontneed-vs.-madv_free-race.patch