linux-kernel - [PATCH] khugepaged: collapse_pte_mapped

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Date:   Sun, 2 Aug 2020 12:12:42 -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>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH] khugepaged: collapse_pte_mapped_thp() flush the right
 range

pmdp_collapse_flush() should be given the start address at which the huge
page is mapped, haddr: it was given addr, which at that point has been
used as a local variable, incremented to the end address of the extent.

Found by source inspection while chasing a hugepage locking bug, which
I then could not explain by this. At first I thought this was very bad;
then saw that all of the page translations that were not flushed would
actually still point to the right pages afterwards, so harmless; then
realized that I know nothing of how different architectures and models
cache intermediate paging structures, so maybe it matters after all -
particularly since the page table concerned is immediately freed.

Much easier to fix than to think about.

Fixes: 27e1f8273113 ("khugepaged: enable collapse pmd for pte-mapped THP")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # v5.4+
---

 mm/khugepaged.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- 5.8-rc7/mm/khugepaged.c	2020-07-26 16:58:02.189038680 -0700
+++ linux/mm/khugepaged.c	2020-08-02 10:48:59.890925896 -0700
@@ -1502,7 +1502,7 @@ void collapse_pte_mapped_thp(struct mm_s

 	/* step 4: collapse pmd */
 	ptl = pmd_lock(vma->vm_mm, pmd);
-	_pmd = pmdp_collapse_flush(vma, addr, pmd);
+	_pmd = pmdp_collapse_flush(vma, haddr, pmd);
 	spin_unlock(ptl);
 	mm_dec_nr_ptes(mm);
 	pte_free(mm, pmd_pgtable(_pmd));