linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c: pud_huge() returns 0 when using 2-level paging

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Date:   Tue, 8 Nov 2022 00:00:15 +0000
From:   HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口　直也) 
        <naoya.horiguchi@....com>
To:     Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:     Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@...ux.dev>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>,
        Liu Shixin <liushixin2@...wei.com>,
        Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>,
        Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>,
        Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c: pud_huge() returns 0 when
 using 2-level paging

On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 02:42:18PM +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 11:10:10AM +0900, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> > From: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@....com>
> > 
> > The following bug is reported to be triggered when starting X on x86-32
> > system with i915:
> > 
> >   [  225.777375] kernel BUG at mm/memory.c:2664!
> >   [  225.777391] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> >   [  225.777405] CPU: 0 PID: 2402 Comm: Xorg Not tainted 6.1.0-rc3-bdg+ #86
> >   [  225.777415] Hardware name:  /8I865G775-G, BIOS F1 08/29/2006
> >   [  225.777421] EIP: __apply_to_page_range+0x24d/0x31c
> >   [  225.777437] Code: ff ff 8b 55 e8 8b 45 cc e8 0a 11 ec ff 89 d8 83 c4 28 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 81 7d e0 a0 ef 96 c1 74 ad 8b 45 d0 e8 2d 83 49 00 eb a3 <0f> 0b 25 00 f0 ff ff 81 eb 00 00 00 40 01 c3 8b 45 ec 8b 00 e8 76
> >   [  225.777446] EAX: 00000001 EBX: c53a3b58 ECX: b5c00000 EDX: c258aa00
> >   [  225.777454] ESI: b5c00000 EDI: b5900000 EBP: c4b0fdb4 ESP: c4b0fd80
> >   [  225.777462] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 EFLAGS: 00010202
> >   [  225.777470] CR0: 80050033 CR2: b5900000 CR3: 053a3000 CR4: 000006d0
> >   [  225.777479] Call Trace:
> >   [  225.777486]  ? i915_memcpy_init_early+0x63/0x63 [i915]
> >   [  225.777684]  apply_to_page_range+0x21/0x27
> >   [  225.777694]  ? i915_memcpy_init_early+0x63/0x63 [i915]
> >   [  225.777870]  remap_io_mapping+0x49/0x75 [i915]
> >   [  225.778046]  ? i915_memcpy_init_early+0x63/0x63 [i915]
> >   [  225.778220]  ? mutex_unlock+0xb/0xd
> >   [  225.778231]  ? i915_vma_pin_fence+0x6d/0xf7 [i915]
> >   [  225.778420]  vm_fault_gtt+0x2a9/0x8f1 [i915]
> >   [  225.778644]  ? lock_is_held_type+0x56/0xe7
> >   [  225.778655]  ? lock_is_held_type+0x7a/0xe7
> >   [  225.778663]  ? 0xc1000000
> >   [  225.778670]  __do_fault+0x21/0x6a
> >   [  225.778679]  handle_mm_fault+0x708/0xb21
> >   [  225.778686]  ? mt_find+0x21e/0x5ae
> >   [  225.778696]  exc_page_fault+0x185/0x705
> >   [  225.778704]  ? doublefault_shim+0x127/0x127
> >   [  225.778715]  handle_exception+0x130/0x130
> >   [  225.778723] EIP: 0xb700468a
> > 
> > Recently pud_huge() got aware of non-present entry by commit 3a194f3f8ad0
> > ("mm/hugetlb: make pud_huge() and follow_huge_pud() aware of non-present
> > pud entry") to handle some special states of gigantic page.  However, it's
> > overlooked that pud_none() always returns false when running with 2-level
> > paging, and as a result pmd_huge() can return true pointlessly.

Sorry, I found a non-negligible typo here (s/pmd_huge/pud_huge/).
Andrew, could you fix this on mm-hotfixes-unstable?

> > 
> > Introduce "#if CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS > 2" to pud_huge() to deal with this.
> > 
> > Fixes: 3a194f3f8ad0 ("mm/hugetlb: make pud_huge() and follow_huge_pud() aware of non-present pud entry")
> > Reported-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@...ux.intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@....com>
> > Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
> 
> Works for me.
> Tested-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@...ux.intel.com>

Thank you for confirmation.

- Naoya Horiguchi