linux-kernel - [PATCH 09/10] huge pagecache: mmap_sem is unlocked when truncation splits pmd

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Date:	Tue, 5 Apr 2016 13:55:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@...gle.com>,
	Yang Shi <yang.shi@...aro.org>, Ning Qu <quning@...il.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH 09/10] huge pagecache: mmap_sem is unlocked when truncation
 splits pmd

zap_pmd_range()'s CONFIG_DEBUG_VM !rwsem_is_locked(&mmap_sem) BUG()
will be invalid with huge pagecache, in whatever way it is implemented:
truncation of a hugely-mapped file to an unhugely-aligned size would
easily hit it.

(Although anon THP could in principle apply khugepaged to private file
mappings, which are not excluded by the MADV_HUGEPAGE restrictions, in
practice there's a vm_ops check which excludes them, so it never hits
this BUG() - there's no interface to "truncate" an anonymous mapping.)

We could complicate the test, to check i_mmap_rwsem also when there's a
vm_file; but my inclination was to make zap_pmd_range() more readable by
simply deleting this check.  A search has shown no report of the issue in
the years since commit e0897d75f0b2 ("mm, thp: print useful information
when mmap_sem is unlocked in zap_pmd_range") expanded it from VM_BUG_ON()
- though I cannot point to what commit I would say then fixed the issue.

But there are a couple of other patches now floating around, neither
yet in the tree: let's agree to retain the check as a VM_BUG_ON_VMA(),
as Matthew Wilcox has done; but subject to a vma_is_anonymous() check,
as Kirill Shutemov has done.  And let's get this in, without waiting
for any particular huge pagecache implementation to reach the tree.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
---
 mm/memory.c |   11 ++---------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1182,15 +1182,8 @@ static inline unsigned long zap_pmd_rang
 		next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
 		if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd) || pmd_devmap(*pmd)) {
 			if (next - addr != HPAGE_PMD_SIZE) {
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
-				if (!rwsem_is_locked(&tlb->mm->mmap_sem)) {
-					pr_err("%s: mmap_sem is unlocked! addr=0x%lx end=0x%lx vma->vm_start=0x%lx vma->vm_end=0x%lx\n",
-						__func__, addr, end,
-						vma->vm_start,
-						vma->vm_end);
-					BUG();
-				}
-#endif
+				VM_BUG_ON_VMA(vma_is_anonymous(vma) &&
+				    !rwsem_is_locked(&tlb->mm->mmap_sem), vma);
 				split_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr);
 			} else if (zap_huge_pmd(tlb, vma, pmd, addr))
 				goto next;