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Date:   Thu, 20 Dec 2018 13:06:42 -0800
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To:     Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
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        Prakash Sangappa <prakash.sangappa@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] hugetlbfs: use i_mmap_rwsem for better
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 14:35:55 -0800 Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> wrote:

> There are two primary issues addressed here:
> 1) For shared pmds, huge PTE pointers returned by huge_pte_alloc can become
>    invalid via a call to huge_pmd_unshare by another thread.
> 2) hugetlbfs page faults can race with truncation causing invalid global
>    reserve counts and state.
> Both issues are addressed by expanding the use of i_mmap_rwsem.
> 
> These issues have existed for a long time.  They can be recreated with a
> test program that causes page fault/truncation races.  For simple mappings,
> this results in a negative HugePages_Rsvd count.  If racing with mappings
> that contain shared pmds, we can hit "BUG at fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c:444!" or
> Oops! as the result of an invalid memory reference.

Still no reviewers or ackers :(

I'll queue these for 4.21-rc1.  The Fixes: commits are over a decade
old so I assume things aren't super-urgent and the cc:stable will do
its work.