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Message-ID: <2d8c7ddf-17be-4b09-ad99-98597d54bc3c@bytedance.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 14:24:46 +0800
From: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@...edance.com>
To: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>, Andrea Arcangeli
<aarcange@...hat.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] userfaultfd: Don't BUG_ON() if khugepaged yanks our
page table
On 2024/8/13 00:42, Jann Horn wrote:
> Since khugepaged was changed to allow retracting page tables in file
> mappings without holding the mmap lock, these BUG_ON()s are wrong - get rid
> of them.
>
> We could also remove the preceding "if (unlikely(...))" block, but then
> we could reach pte_offset_map_lock() with transhuge pages not just for file
> mappings but also for anonymous mappings - which would probably be fine but
> I think is not necessarily expected.
>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Fixes: 1d65b771bc08 ("mm/khugepaged: retract_page_tables() without mmap or vma lock")
> Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
> ---
> mm/userfaultfd.c | 7 ++++---
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@...edance.com>
>
> diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c
> index ec3750467aa5..0dfa97db6feb 100644
> --- a/mm/userfaultfd.c
> +++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c
> @@ -806,9 +806,10 @@ static __always_inline ssize_t mfill_atomic(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx,
> err = -EFAULT;
> break;
> }
> -
> - BUG_ON(pmd_none(*dst_pmd));
> - BUG_ON(pmd_trans_huge(*dst_pmd));
> + /*
> + * For shmem mappings, khugepaged is allowed to remove page
> + * tables under us; pte_offset_map_lock() will deal with that.
> + */
>
> err = mfill_atomic_pte(dst_pmd, dst_vma, dst_addr,
> src_addr, flags, &folio);
>
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