From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:40084 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753733AbcIIPeX (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Sep 2016 11:34:23 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Andrea Arcangeli , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Vlastimil Babka , Jiri Slaby Subject: [PATCH 3.14 11/11] mm: thp: fix SMP race condition between THP page fault and MADV_DONTNEED Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 17:33:46 +0200 Message-Id: <20160909153157.937965065@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20160909153156.152470606@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20160909153156.152470606@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Andrea Arcangeli commit ad33bb04b2a6cee6c1f99fabb15cddbf93ff0433 upstream. pmd_trans_unstable()/pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() were introduced to locklessy (but atomically) detect when a pmd is a regular (stable) pmd or when the pmd is unstable and can infinitely transition from pmd_none() and pmd_trans_huge() from under us, while only holding the mmap_sem for reading (for writing not). While holding the mmap_sem only for reading, MADV_DONTNEED can run from under us and so before we can assume the pmd to be a regular stable pmd we need to compare it against pmd_none() and pmd_trans_huge() in an atomic way, with pmd_trans_unstable(). The old pmd_trans_huge() left a tiny window for a race. Useful applications are unlikely to notice the difference as doing MADV_DONTNEED concurrently with a page fault would lead to undefined behavior. [js] 3.12 backport: no pmd_devmap in 3.12 yet. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tidy up comment grammar/layout] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Reported-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/memory.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -3770,8 +3770,18 @@ static int __handle_mm_fault(struct mm_s if (unlikely(pmd_none(*pmd)) && unlikely(__pte_alloc(mm, vma, pmd, address))) return VM_FAULT_OOM; - /* if an huge pmd materialized from under us just retry later */ - if (unlikely(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd))) + /* + * If a huge pmd materialized under us just retry later. Use + * pmd_trans_unstable() instead of pmd_trans_huge() to ensure the pmd + * didn't become pmd_trans_huge under us and then back to pmd_none, as + * a result of MADV_DONTNEED running immediately after a huge pmd fault + * in a different thread of this mm, in turn leading to a misleading + * pmd_trans_huge() retval. All we have to ensure is that it is a + * regular pmd that we can walk with pte_offset_map() and we can do that + * through an atomic read in C, which is what pmd_trans_unstable() + * provides. + */ + if (unlikely(pmd_trans_unstable(pmd))) return 0; /* * A regular pmd is established and it can't morph into a huge pmd