Re: [PATCH stable 5.10.y 0/2] mm/thp: Fix uffd-wp with fork(); crash on pmd migration entry on fork

Greg KH
2021-07-22T14:05:11Z

On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 01:38:53PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 8:57 AM Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > In summary, this series should be needed for 5.10/5.12/5.13. This is the 5.10.y
> > backport of the series. Patch 1 is a dependency of patch 2, while patch 2
> > should be the real fix.
> >
> > There's a minor conflict on patch 2 when cherry pick due to not having the new
> > helper called page_needs_cow_for_dma(). It's also mentioned at the entry of
> > patch 2.
> >
> > This series should be able to fix a rare race that mentioned in thread:
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/796cbb7-5a1c-1ba0-dde5-479aba8224f2@google.com/
> >
> > This fact wasn't discovered when the fix got proposed and merged, because the
> > fix was originally about uffd-wp and its fork event. However it turns out that
> > the problematic commit b569a1760782f3d is also causing crashing on fork() of
> > pmd migration entries which is even more severe than the original uffd-wp
> > problem.
> >
> > Stable kernels at least on 5.12.y has the crash reproduced, and it's possible
> > 5.13.y and 5.10.y could hit it due to having the problematic commit
> > b569a1760782f3d but lacking of the uffd-wp fix patch (8f34f1eac382, which is
> > also patch 2 of this series).
> >
> > The pmd entry crash problem was reported by Igor Raits <igor@gooddata.com> and
> > debugged by Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>.
> >
> > Please review, thanks.
>
> And these two for 5.10.y look good to me also: I'm glad you decided in
> the end to keep 5.10's support for uffd-wp-fork.
> The first is just a straight cherry-pick of
> 5fc7a5f6fd04bc18f309d9f979b32ef7d1d0a997, but as you noted above,
> 8f34f1eac3820fc2722e5159acceb22545b30b0d needed one line of fixup for
> that tree.

All now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h