[PATCH v2 3/3] mm: rmap: Fix CONT-PTE/PMD size hugetlb issue when unmapping

Baolin Wang
2022-05-08T09:36:41Z

On some architectures (like ARM64), it can support CONT-PTE/PMD size
hugetlb, which means it can support not only PMD/PUD size hugetlb:
2M and 1G, but also CONT-PTE/PMD size: 64K and 32M if a 4K page
size specified.

When unmapping a hugetlb page, we will get the relevant page table
entry by huge_pte_offset() only once to nuke it. This is correct
for PMD or PUD size hugetlb, since they always contain only one
pmd entry or pud entry in the page table.

However this is incorrect for CONT-PTE and CONT-PMD size hugetlb,
since they can contain several continuous pte or pmd entry with
same page table attributes, so we will nuke only one pte or pmd
entry for this CONT-PTE/PMD size hugetlb page.

And now try_to_unmap() is only passed a hugetlb page in the case
where the hugetlb page is poisoned. Which means now we will unmap
only one pte entry for a CONT-PTE or CONT-PMD size poisoned hugetlb
page, and we can still access other subpages of a CONT-PTE or CONT-PMD
size poisoned hugetlb page, which will cause serious issues possibly.

So we should change to use huge_ptep_clear_flush() to nuke the
hugetlb page table to fix this issue, which already considered
CONT-PTE and CONT-PMD size hugetlb.

We've already used set_huge_swap_pte_at() to set a poisoned
swap entry for a poisoned hugetlb page. Meanwhile adding a VM_BUG_ON()
to make sure the passed hugetlb page is poisoned in try_to_unmap().

Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
---
mm/rmap.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 7cf2408..37c8fd2 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -1530,6 +1530,11 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct folio *folio, struct vm_area_struct *vma,

if (folio_test_hugetlb(folio)) {
/*
+ * The try_to_unmap() is only passed a hugetlb page
+ * in the case where the hugetlb page is poisoned.
+ */
+ VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHWPoison(subpage), subpage);
+ /*
* huge_pmd_unshare may unmap an entire PMD page.
* There is no way of knowing exactly which PMDs may
* be cached for this mm, so we must flush them all.
@@ -1564,28 +1569,28 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct folio *folio, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
break;
}
}
+ pteval = huge_ptep_clear_flush(vma, address, pvmw.pte);
} else {
flush_cache_page(vma, address, pte_pfn(*pvmw.pte));
- }
-
- /*
- * Nuke the page table entry. When having to clear
- * PageAnonExclusive(), we always have to flush.
- */
- if (should_defer_flush(mm, flags) && !anon_exclusive) {
/*
- * We clear the PTE but do not flush so potentially
- * a remote CPU could still be writing to the folio.
- * If the entry was previously clean then the
- * architecture must guarantee that a clear->dirty
- * transition on a cached TLB entry is written through
- * and traps if the PTE is unmapped.
+ * Nuke the page table entry. When having to clear
+ * PageAnonExclusive(), we always have to flush.
*/
- pteval = ptep_get_and_clear(mm, address, pvmw.pte);
+ if (should_defer_flush(mm, flags) && !anon_exclusive) {
+ /*
+ * We clear the PTE but do not flush so potentially
+ * a remote CPU could still be writing to the folio.
+ * If the entry was previously clean then the
+ * architecture must guarantee that a clear->dirty
+ * transition on a cached TLB entry is written through
+ * and traps if the PTE is unmapped.
+ */
+ pteval = ptep_get_and_clear(mm, address, pvmw.pte);

- set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending(mm, pte_dirty(pteval));
- } else {
- pteval = ptep_clear_flush(vma, address, pvmw.pte);
+ set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending(mm, pte_dirty(pteval));
+ } else {
+ pteval = ptep_clear_flush(vma, address, pvmw.pte);
+ }
}

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