From: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: syzbot+3f5f9a0d292454409ca6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
david@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, muchun.song@linux.dev, osalvador@suse.de,
syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com,
Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] mm/hugetlb: fix possible deadlock in __hugetlb_zap_begin
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:14:21 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251110051421.29436-1-lance.yang@linux.dev> (raw)
From: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
The hugetlb VMA unmap path contains a potential deadlock, as reported
by syzbot. In __hugetlb_zap_begin(), vma_lock is acquired before
i_mmap_lock. This lock ordering conflicts with the page fault path in
hugetlb_fault(), which acquires i_mmap_lock first, establishing the
correct dependency as i_mmap_lock -> vma_lock.
Chain exists of:
&hugetlbfs_i_mmap_rwsem_key
--> &hugetlb_fault_mutex_table[i]
--> &vma_lock->rw_sema
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
lock(&vma_lock->rw_sema);
lock(&hugetlb_fault_mutex_table[i]);
lock(&vma_lock->rw_sema);
lock(&hugetlbfs_i_mmap_rwsem_key);
Resolve the deadlock by reordering the locks in __hugetlb_zap_begin() to
follow the established i_mmap_lock -> vma_lock order.
Reported-by: syzbot+3f5f9a0d292454409ca6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/69113a97.a70a0220.22f260.00ca.GAE@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index b1f47b87ae65..2719995af18e 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -5327,9 +5327,9 @@ void __hugetlb_zap_begin(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
return;
adjust_range_if_pmd_sharing_possible(vma, start, end);
- hugetlb_vma_lock_write(vma);
if (vma->vm_file)
i_mmap_lock_write(vma->vm_file->f_mapping);
+ hugetlb_vma_lock_write(vma);
}
void __hugetlb_zap_end(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
--
2.49.0
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2025-11-10 5:14 Lance Yang [this message]
2025-11-10 9:15 ` [syzbot ci] Re: mm/hugetlb: fix possible deadlock in __hugetlb_zap_begin syzbot ci
2025-11-10 9:31 ` Lance Yang
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