linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm/pagewalk: fix bootstopping regression from extra pte

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Message-ID: <8321a347-4a38-526c-97fb-5999ceaf6dd@google.com>
Date:   Sat, 2 Sep 2023 08:29:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@...il.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        regressions@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: [PATCH] mm/pagewalk: fix bootstopping regression from extra
 pte_unmap()

Mikhail reports early-6.6-based Fedora Rawhide not booting: "rcu_preempt
detected expedited stalls", minutes wait, and then hung_task splat while
kworker trying to synchronize_rcu_expedited().  Nothing logged to disk.

He bisected to my 6.6 a349d72fd9ef ("mm/pgtable: add rcu_read_lock() and
rcu_read_unlock()s"): but the one to blame is my 6.5 commit to fix the
espfix "bad pmd" warnings when booting x86_64 with CONFIG_EFI_PGT_DUMP=y.

Gaah, that added an "addr >= TASK_SIZE" check to avoid pte_offset_map(),
but failed to add the equivalent check when choosing to pte_unmap().

It's not a problem on 6.5 (for different reasons, it's harmless on both
64-bit and 32-bit), but becomes a bootstopper on 6.6 with the unbalanced
rcu_read_unlock() - RCU has a WARN_ON_ONCE for that, but it would have
scrolled off Mikhail's console too quickly.

Reported-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@...il.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CABXGCsNi8Tiv5zUPNXr6UJw6qV1VdaBEfGqEAMkkXE3QPvZuAQ@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: 8b1cb4a2e819 ("mm/pagewalk: fix EFI_PGT_DUMP of espfix area")
Fixes: a349d72fd9ef ("mm/pgtable: add rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock()s")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Tested-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@...il.com>
---
 mm/pagewalk.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/pagewalk.c b/mm/pagewalk.c
index 9b2d23fbf4d3..b7d7e4fcfad7 100644
--- a/mm/pagewalk.c
+++ b/mm/pagewalk.c
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ static int walk_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 			pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, addr);
 		if (pte) {
 			err = walk_pte_range_inner(pte, addr, end, walk);
-			if (walk->mm != &init_mm)
+			if (walk->mm != &init_mm && addr < TASK_SIZE)
 				pte_unmap(pte);
 		}
 	} else {
-- 
2.35.3