linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix random segfault when freeing hugetlb range

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Date:   Wed, 2 Sep 2020 10:11:23 +0200
From:   Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
To:     "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix random segfault when freeing hugetlb range



Le 02/09/2020 à 05:23, Aneesh Kumar K.V a écrit :
> Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu> writes:
> 
>> The following random segfault is observed from time to time with
>> map_hugetlb selftest:
>>
>> root@...alhost:~# ./map_hugetlb 1 19
>> 524288 kB hugepages
>> Mapping 1 Mbytes
>> Segmentation fault
>>
>> [   31.219972] map_hugetlb[365]: segfault (11) at 117 nip 77974f8c lr 779a6834 code 1 in ld-2.23.so[77966000+21000]
>> [   31.220192] map_hugetlb[365]: code: 9421ffc0 480318d1 93410028 90010044 9361002c 93810030 93a10034 93c10038
>> [   31.220307] map_hugetlb[365]: code: 93e1003c 93210024 8123007c 81430038 <80e90004> 814a0004 7f443a14 813a0004
>> [   31.221911] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:(ptrval) type:MM_FILEPAGES val:33
>> [   31.229362] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:(ptrval) type:MM_ANONPAGES val:5
>>
>> This fault is due to hugetlb_free_pgd_range() freeing page tables
>> that are also used by regular pages.
>>
>> As explain in the comment at the beginning of
>> hugetlb_free_pgd_range(), the verification done in free_pgd_range()
>> on floor and ceiling is not done here, which means
>> hugetlb_free_pte_range() can free outside the expected range.
>>
>> As the verification cannot be done in hugetlb_free_pgd_range(), it
>> must be done in hugetlb_free_pte_range().
>>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>
> 
>> Fixes: b250c8c08c79 ("powerpc/8xx: Manage 512k huge pages as standard pages.")
>> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
>> ---
>>   arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
>>   1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
>> index 26292544630f..e7ae2a2c4545 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
>> @@ -330,10 +330,24 @@ static void free_hugepd_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb, hugepd_t *hpdp, int pdshif
>>   				 get_hugepd_cache_index(pdshift - shift));
>>   }
>>   
>> -static void hugetlb_free_pte_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb, pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr)
>> +static void hugetlb_free_pte_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb, pmd_t *pmd,
>> +				   unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
>> +				   unsigned long floor, unsigned long ceiling)
>>   {
>> +	unsigned long start = addr;
>>   	pgtable_t token = pmd_pgtable(*pmd);
>>   
>> +	start &= PMD_MASK;
>> +	if (start < floor)
>> +		return;
>> +	if (ceiling) {
>> +		ceiling &= PMD_MASK;
>> +		if (!ceiling)
>> +			return;
>> +	}
>> +	if (end - 1 > ceiling - 1)
>> +		return;
>> +
> 
> We do repeat that for pud/pmd/pte hugetlb_free_range. Can we consolidate
> that with comment explaining we are checking if the pgtable entry is
> mapping outside the range?

I was thinking about refactoring that into a helper and add all the 
necessary comments to explain what it does.

Will do that in a followup series if you are OK. This patch is a bug fix 
and also have to go through stable.

Christophe