linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] hugetlbfs: check for shareable lock before calling huge_pmd

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Message-ID: <aOyzyt7irOiINLWq@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 10:09:46 +0200
From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
To: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@...il.com>
Cc: muchun.song@...ux.dev, david@...hat.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	broonie@...nel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	syzbot+f26d7c75c26ec19790e7@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] hugetlbfs: check for shareable lock before calling
  huge_pmd_unshare()

On Wed, Oct 08, 2025 at 10:57:59AM +0530, Deepanshu Kartikey wrote:
> When hugetlb_vmdelete_list() processes VMAs during truncate operations,
> it may encounter VMAs where huge_pmd_unshare() is called without the
> required shareable lock. This triggers an assertion failure in
> hugetlb_vma_assert_locked().
> 
> The previous fix in commit dd83609b8898 ("hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without
> shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list") skipped entire VMAs without
> shareable locks to avoid the assertion. However, this prevented pages
> from being unmapped and freed, causing a regression in fallocate(PUNCH_HOLE)
> operations where pages were not freed immediately, as reported by Mark Brown.
> 
> Instead of skipping VMAs or adding new flags, check __vma_shareable_lock()
> directly in __unmap_hugepage_range() right before calling huge_pmd_unshare().
> This ensures PMD unsharing only happens when the VMA has a shareable lock
> structure, while still allowing page unmapping and freeing to proceed for
> all VMAs.
> 
> Reported-by: syzbot+f26d7c75c26ec19790e7@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> Tested-by: syzbot+f26d7c75c26ec19790e7@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> Reported-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
> Fixes: dd83609b8898 ("hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list")
> Suggested-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
> Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/mm-commits/20250925203504.7BE02C4CEF7@smtp.kernel.org/ [v1]
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/mm-commits/20250928185232.BEDB6C4CEF0@smtp.kernel.org/ [v2]
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20251003174553.3078839-1-kartikey406@gmail.com/ [v3]
> Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@...il.com>

Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>

 

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Oscar Salvador
SUSE Labs