linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH] mm: Fix a huge pud insertion race during faulting

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Date:   Tue,  8 Oct 2019 11:37:11 +0200
From:   Thomas Hellström (VMware) 
        <thomas_os@...pmail.org>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kirill@...temov.name, Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@...are.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Subject: [RFC PATCH] mm: Fix a huge pud insertion race during faulting

From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@...are.com>

A huge pud page can theoretically be faulted in racing with pmd_alloc()
in __handle_mm_fault(). That will lead to pmd_alloc() returning an
invalid pmd pointer. Fix this by adding a pud_trans_unstable() function
similar to pmd_trans_unstable() and check whether the pud is really stable
before using the pmd pointer.

Race:
Thread 1:             Thread 2:                 Comment
create_huge_pud()                               Fallback - not taken.
		      create_huge_pud()         Taken.
pmd_alloc()                                     Returns an invalid pointer.

Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Fixes: a00cc7d9dd93 ("mm, x86: add support for PUD-sized transparent hugepages")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@...are.com>
---
RFC: We include pud_devmap() as an unstable PUD flag. Is this correct?
     Do the same for pmds?
---
 include/asm-generic/pgtable.h | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 mm/memory.c                   |  6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
index 818691846c90..70c2058230ba 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
@@ -912,6 +912,31 @@ static inline int pud_trans_huge(pud_t pud)
 }
 #endif
 
+/* See pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad for discussion. */
+static inline int pud_none_or_trans_huge_or_dev_or_clear_bad(pud_t *pud)
+{
+	pud_t pudval = READ_ONCE(*pud);
+
+	if (pud_none(pudval) || pud_trans_huge(pudval) || pud_devmap(pudval))
+		return 1;
+	if (unlikely(pud_bad(pudval))) {
+		pud_clear_bad(pud);
+		return 1;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/* See pmd_trans_unstable for discussion. */
+static inline int pud_trans_unstable(pud_t *pud)
+{
+#if defined(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) &&			\
+	defined(CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD)
+	return pud_none_or_trans_huge_or_dev_or_clear_bad(pud);
+#else
+	return 0;
+#endif
+}
+
 #ifndef pmd_read_atomic
 static inline pmd_t pmd_read_atomic(pmd_t *pmdp)
 {
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index b1ca51a079f2..43ff372f4f07 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3914,6 +3914,7 @@ static vm_fault_t __handle_mm_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	vmf.pud = pud_alloc(mm, p4d, address);
 	if (!vmf.pud)
 		return VM_FAULT_OOM;
+retry_pud:
 	if (pud_none(*vmf.pud) && __transparent_hugepage_enabled(vma)) {
 		ret = create_huge_pud(&vmf);
 		if (!(ret & VM_FAULT_FALLBACK))
@@ -3940,6 +3941,11 @@ static vm_fault_t __handle_mm_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	vmf.pmd = pmd_alloc(mm, vmf.pud, address);
 	if (!vmf.pmd)
 		return VM_FAULT_OOM;
+
+	/* Huge pud page fault raced with pmd_alloc? */
+	if (pud_trans_unstable(vmf.pud))
+		goto retry_pud;
+
 	if (pmd_none(*vmf.pmd) && __transparent_hugepage_enabled(vma)) {
 		ret = create_huge_pmd(&vmf);
 		if (!(ret & VM_FAULT_FALLBACK))
-- 
2.20.1