linux-kernel - [PATCH 06/10] mm/hugetlb: Make hugetlb_follow_page

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Date:   Tue, 29 Nov 2022 14:35:22 -0500
From:   Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     James Houghton <jthoughton@...gle.com>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, peterx@...hat.com,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>,
        Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>,
        Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 06/10] mm/hugetlb: Make hugetlb_follow_page_mask() safe to pmd unshare

Since hugetlb_follow_page_mask() walks the pgtable, it needs the vma lock
to make sure the pgtable page will not be freed concurrently.

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 776e34ccf029..d6bb1d22f1c4 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -6232,9 +6232,10 @@ struct page *hugetlb_follow_page_mask(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(flags & FOLL_PIN))
 		return NULL;
 
+	hugetlb_vma_lock_read(vma);
 	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);
@@ -6257,6 +6258,8 @@ struct page *hugetlb_follow_page_mask(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	}
 out:
 	spin_unlock(ptl);
+out_unlock:
+	hugetlb_vma_unlock_read(vma);
 	return page;
 }
 
-- 
2.37.3