linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.4 01/38] mm: pagewalk: Fix race between unmap and page walker

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Message-Id: <20221013175144.300652012@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Thu, 13 Oct 2022 19:52:02 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Steven Price <steven.price@....com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Thomas Hellström 
        <thomas.hellstrom@...ux.intel.com>,
        Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.4 01/38] mm: pagewalk: Fix race between unmap and page walker

From: Steven Price <steven.price@....com>

commit 8782fb61cc848364e1e1599d76d3c9dd58a1cc06 upstream.

The mmap lock protects the page walker from changes to the page tables
during the walk.  However a read lock is insufficient to protect those
areas which don't have a VMA as munmap() detaches the VMAs before
downgrading to a read lock and actually tearing down PTEs/page tables.

For users of walk_page_range() the solution is to simply call pte_hole()
immediately without checking the actual page tables when a VMA is not
present. We now never call __walk_page_range() without a valid vma.

For walk_page_range_novma() the locking requirements are tightened to
require the mmap write lock to be taken, and then walking the pgd
directly with 'no_vma' set.

This in turn means that all page walkers either have a valid vma, or
it's that special 'novma' case for page table debugging.  As a result,
all the odd '(!walk->vma && !walk->no_vma)' tests can be removed.

Fixes: dd2283f2605e ("mm: mmap: zap pages with read mmap_sem in munmap")
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@....com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@...il.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
[manually backported. backport note: walk_page_range_novma() does not exist in
5.4, so I'm omitting it from the backport]
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 mm/pagewalk.c |   13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/pagewalk.c
+++ b/mm/pagewalk.c
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ static int walk_pmd_range(pud_t *pud, un
 	do {
 again:
 		next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
-		if (pmd_none(*pmd) || !walk->vma) {
+		if (pmd_none(*pmd)) {
 			if (ops->pte_hole)
 				err = ops->pte_hole(addr, next, walk);
 			if (err)
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static int walk_pud_range(p4d_t *p4d, un
 	do {
  again:
 		next = pud_addr_end(addr, end);
-		if (pud_none(*pud) || !walk->vma) {
+		if (pud_none(*pud)) {
 			if (ops->pte_hole)
 				err = ops->pte_hole(addr, next, walk);
 			if (err)
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ static int __walk_page_range(unsigned lo
 	int err = 0;
 	struct vm_area_struct *vma = walk->vma;
 
-	if (vma && is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) {
+	if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) {
 		if (walk->ops->hugetlb_entry)
 			err = walk_hugetlb_range(start, end, walk);
 	} else
@@ -324,9 +324,13 @@ int walk_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm
 		if (!vma) { /* after the last vma */
 			walk.vma = NULL;
 			next = end;
+			if (ops->pte_hole)
+				err = ops->pte_hole(start, next, &walk);
 		} else if (start < vma->vm_start) { /* outside vma */
 			walk.vma = NULL;
 			next = min(end, vma->vm_start);
+			if (ops->pte_hole)
+				err = ops->pte_hole(start, next, &walk);
 		} else { /* inside vma */
 			walk.vma = vma;
 			next = min(end, vma->vm_end);
@@ -344,9 +348,8 @@ int walk_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm
 			}
 			if (err < 0)
 				break;
-		}
-		if (walk.vma || walk.ops->pte_hole)
 			err = __walk_page_range(start, next, &walk);
+		}
 		if (err)
 			break;
 	} while (start = next, start < end);