4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]> commit ced108037c2aa542b3ed8b7afd1576064ad1362a upstream. In case prot_numa, we are under down_read(mmap_sem). It's critical to not clear pmd intermittently to avoid race with MADV_DONTNEED which is also under down_read(mmap_sem): CPU0: CPU1: change_huge_pmd(prot_numa=1) pmdp_huge_get_and_clear_notify() madvise_dontneed() zap_pmd_range() pmd_trans_huge(*pmd) == 0 (without ptl) // skip the pmd set_pmd_at(); // pmd is re-established The race makes MADV_DONTNEED miss the huge pmd and don't clear it which may break userspace. Found by code analysis, never saw triggered. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> Cc: Hillf Danton <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> [jwang: adjust context for 4.4] Signed-off-by: Jack Wang <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- mm/huge_memory.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -1588,7 +1588,39 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struc if (prot_numa && pmd_protnone(*pmd)) goto unlock; - entry = pmdp_huge_get_and_clear_notify(mm, addr, pmd); + /* + * In case prot_numa, we are under down_read(mmap_sem). It's critical + * to not clear pmd intermittently to avoid race with MADV_DONTNEED + * which is also under down_read(mmap_sem): + * + * CPU0: CPU1: + * change_huge_pmd(prot_numa=1) + * pmdp_huge_get_and_clear_notify() + * madvise_dontneed() + * zap_pmd_range() + * pmd_trans_huge(*pmd) == 0 (without ptl) + * // skip the pmd + * set_pmd_at(); + * // pmd is re-established + * + * The race makes MADV_DONTNEED miss the huge pmd and don't clear it + * which may break userspace. + * + * pmdp_invalidate() is required to make sure we don't miss + * dirty/young flags set by hardware. + */ + entry = *pmd; + pmdp_invalidate(vma, addr, pmd); + + /* + * Recover dirty/young flags. It relies on pmdp_invalidate to not + * corrupt them. + */ + if (pmd_dirty(*pmd)) + entry = pmd_mkdirty(entry); + if (pmd_young(*pmd)) + entry = pmd_mkyoung(entry); + entry = pmd_modify(entry, newprot); if (preserve_write) entry = pmd_mkwrite(entry);
