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authorRyan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>2024-05-01 15:33:10 +0100
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2024-05-07 10:37:00 -0700
commit3a5a8d343e1cf96eb9971b17cbd4b832ab19b8e7 (patch)
tree5f7aa4fd90724e78a5399e875fff6321388d1983 /Documentation/mm
parentb0d7e15a9f21919382075980a5da9ed85ddfcd11 (diff)
mm: fix race between __split_huge_pmd_locked() and GUP-fast
__split_huge_pmd_locked() can be called for a present THP, devmap or (non-present) migration entry. It calls pmdp_invalidate() unconditionally on the pmdp and only determines if it is present or not based on the returned old pmd. This is a problem for the migration entry case because pmd_mkinvalid(), called by pmdp_invalidate() must only be called for a present pmd. On arm64 at least, pmd_mkinvalid() will mark the pmd such that any future call to pmd_present() will return true. And therefore any lockless pgtable walker could see the migration entry pmd in this state and start interpretting the fields as if it were present, leading to BadThings (TM). GUP-fast appears to be one such lockless pgtable walker. x86 does not suffer the above problem, but instead pmd_mkinvalid() will corrupt the offset field of the swap entry within the swap pte. See link below for discussion of that problem. Fix all of this by only calling pmdp_invalidate() for a present pmd. And for good measure let's add a warning to all implementations of pmdp_invalidate[_ad](). I've manually reviewed all other pmdp_invalidate[_ad]() call sites and believe all others to be conformant. This is a theoretical bug found during code review. I don't have any test case to trigger it in practice. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240501143310.1381675-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/0dd7827a-6334-439a-8fd0-43c98e6af22b@arm.com/ Fixes: 84c3fc4e9c56 ("mm: thp: check pmd migration entry in common path") Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/mm')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/mm/arch_pgtable_helpers.rst6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/arch_pgtable_helpers.rst b/Documentation/mm/arch_pgtable_helpers.rst
index 2466d3363af7..ad50ca6f495e 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/arch_pgtable_helpers.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/arch_pgtable_helpers.rst
@@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ PMD Page Table Helpers
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| pmd_swp_clear_soft_dirty | Clears a soft dirty swapped PMD |
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
-| pmd_mkinvalid | Invalidates a mapped PMD [1] |
+| pmd_mkinvalid | Invalidates a present PMD; do not call for |
+| | non-present PMD [1] |
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| pmd_set_huge | Creates a PMD huge mapping |
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
@@ -196,7 +197,8 @@ PUD Page Table Helpers
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| pud_mkdevmap | Creates a ZONE_DEVICE mapped PUD |
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
-| pud_mkinvalid | Invalidates a mapped PUD [1] |
+| pud_mkinvalid | Invalidates a present PUD; do not call for |
+| | non-present PUD [1] |
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| pud_set_huge | Creates a PUD huge mapping |
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------------------+