linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] mm/hugetlb: add migration entry check in hugetlb_change

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Date:	Wed, 3 Sep 2014 18:06:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] mm/hugetlb: add migration entry check in
 hugetlb_change_protection

On Thu, 28 Aug 2014, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:

> There is a race condition between hugepage migration and change_protection(),
> where hugetlb_change_protection() doesn't care about migration entries and
> wrongly overwrites them. That causes unexpected results like kernel crash.
> 
> This patch adds is_hugetlb_entry_(migration|hwpoisoned) check in this
> function to do proper actions.
> 
> ChangeLog v3:
> - handle migration entry correctly (instead of just skipping)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # [2.6.36+]

2.6.36+?  For the hwpoisoned part of it, I suppose.
Then you'd better mentioned the hwpoisoned case in the comment above.

> ---
>  mm/hugetlb.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git mmotm-2014-08-25-16-52.orig/mm/hugetlb.c mmotm-2014-08-25-16-52/mm/hugetlb.c
> index 2aafe073cb06..1ed9df6def54 100644
> --- mmotm-2014-08-25-16-52.orig/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ mmotm-2014-08-25-16-52/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -3362,7 +3362,26 @@ unsigned long hugetlb_change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  			spin_unlock(ptl);
>  			continue;
>  		}
> -		if (!huge_pte_none(huge_ptep_get(ptep))) {
> +		pte = huge_ptep_get(ptep);
> +		if (unlikely(is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned(pte))) {
> +			spin_unlock(ptl);
> +			continue;
> +		}
> +		if (unlikely(is_hugetlb_entry_migration(pte))) {
> +			swp_entry_t entry = pte_to_swp_entry(pte);
> +
> +			if (is_write_migration_entry(entry)) {
> +				pte_t newpte;
> +
> +				make_migration_entry_read(&entry);
> +				newpte = swp_entry_to_pte(entry);
> +				set_pte_at(mm, address, ptep, newpte);

set_huge_pte_at.

(As usual, I can't bear to see these is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned and
is_hugetlb_entry_migration examples go past without bleating about
wanting to streamline them a little; but agreed last time to leave
that to some later cleanup once all the stable backports are stable.)

> +				pages++;
> +			}
> +			spin_unlock(ptl);
> +			continue;
> +		}
> +		if (!huge_pte_none(pte)) {
>  			pte = huge_ptep_get_and_clear(mm, address, ptep);
>  			pte = pte_mkhuge(huge_pte_modify(pte, newprot));
>  			pte = arch_make_huge_pte(pte, vma, NULL, 0);
> -- 
> 1.9.3
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