From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758172AbcC2UFQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:05:16 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:45283 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758116AbcC2UFB (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:05:01 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Andrea Arcangeli" , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , "Linus Torvalds" Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 20:18:22 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.2 43/62] mm: thp: fix SMP race condition between THP page fault and MADV_DONTNEED In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 213.146.164.225 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2.79-rc1 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. [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 [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- mm/memory.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -3583,8 +3583,18 @@ retry: */ if (unlikely(pmd_none(*pmd)) && __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