linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC v2 07/12] mm/hugetlb: Use hugetlb walker lock in hugetlb_follow_page

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Message-Id: <20221118011025.2178986-8-peterx@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 17 Nov 2022 20:10:20 -0500
From:   Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, peterx@...hat.com,
        James Houghton <jthoughton@...gle.com>,
        Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH RFC v2 07/12] mm/hugetlb: Use hugetlb walker lock in hugetlb_follow_page_mask()

Hugetlb walker lock makes sure the pte_t* won't go away from under us.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
---
 mm/hugetlb.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 5ef883184885..fc49e3ca8acd 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -6222,9 +6222,10 @@ struct page *hugetlb_follow_page_mask(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(flags & FOLL_PIN))
 		return NULL;
 
+	hugetlb_walker_lock();
 	pte = huge_pte_offset(mm, haddr, huge_page_size(h));
 	if (!pte)
-		return NULL;
+		goto out_unlock;
 
 	ptl = huge_pte_lock(h, mm, pte);
 	entry = huge_ptep_get(pte);
@@ -6247,6 +6248,8 @@ struct page *hugetlb_follow_page_mask(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	}
 out:
 	spin_unlock(ptl);
+out_unlock:
+	hugetlb_walker_unlock();
 	return page;
 }
 
-- 
2.37.3