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authorMike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>2018-12-28 00:39:38 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-12-28 12:11:51 -0800
commitb43a9990055958e70347c56f90ea2ae32c67334c (patch)
tree91f90f0c3e73ca076cbc4a9780bd7d5a271b6257 /mm/rmap.c
parent1ecc07fd0a6d350bbf4dc176e0d654661b304a30 (diff)
hugetlbfs: use i_mmap_rwsem for more pmd sharing synchronization
While looking at BUGs associated with invalid huge page map counts, it was discovered and observed that a huge pte pointer could become 'invalid' and point to another task's page table. Consider the following: A task takes a page fault on a shared hugetlbfs file and calls huge_pte_alloc to get a ptep. Suppose the returned ptep points to a shared pmd. Now, another task truncates the hugetlbfs file. As part of truncation, it unmaps everyone who has the file mapped. If the range being truncated is covered by a shared pmd, huge_pmd_unshare will be called. For all but the last user of the shared pmd, huge_pmd_unshare will clear the pud pointing to the pmd. If the task in the middle of the page fault is not the last user, the ptep returned by huge_pte_alloc now points to another task's page table or worse. This leads to bad things such as incorrect page map/reference counts or invalid memory references. To fix, expand the use of i_mmap_rwsem as follows: - i_mmap_rwsem is held in read mode whenever huge_pmd_share is called. huge_pmd_share is only called via huge_pte_alloc, so callers of huge_pte_alloc take i_mmap_rwsem before calling. In addition, callers of huge_pte_alloc continue to hold the semaphore until finished with the ptep. - i_mmap_rwsem is held in write mode whenever huge_pmd_unshare is called. [mike.kravetz@oracle.com: add explicit check for mapping != null] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181218223557.5202-2-mike.kravetz@oracle.com Fixes: 39dde65c9940 ("shared page table for hugetlb page") Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Prakash Sangappa <prakash.sangappa@oracle.com> Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/rmap.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/rmap.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 68a1a5b869a5..21a26cf51114 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
* page->flags PG_locked (lock_page)
* hugetlbfs_i_mmap_rwsem_key (in huge_pmd_share)
* mapping->i_mmap_rwsem
+ * hugetlb_fault_mutex (hugetlbfs specific page fault mutex)
* anon_vma->rwsem
* mm->page_table_lock or pte_lock
* zone_lru_lock (in mark_page_accessed, isolate_lru_page)
@@ -1378,6 +1379,9 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
/*
* If sharing is possible, start and end will be adjusted
* accordingly.
+ *
+ * If called for a huge page, caller must hold i_mmap_rwsem
+ * in write mode as it is possible to call huge_pmd_unshare.
*/
adjust_range_if_pmd_sharing_possible(vma, &range.start,
&range.end);