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authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>2016-02-26 15:19:28 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-02-27 10:28:52 -0800
commitad33bb04b2a6cee6c1f99fabb15cddbf93ff0433 (patch)
treef38c333dcb92d8b558e48ab873d58e27f0d24057 /mm/memory.c
parent29a9faa641857425af76e44f2fab22db53032401 (diff)
downloadlinux-ad33bb04b2a6cee6c1f99fabb15cddbf93ff0433.tar.bz2
mm: thp: fix SMP race condition between THP page fault and MADV_DONTNEED
pmd_trans_unstable()/pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() were introduced to locklessy (but atomically) detect when a pmd is a regular (stable) pmd or when the pmd is unstable and can infinitely transition from pmd_none() and pmd_trans_huge() from under us, while only holding the mmap_sem for reading (for writing not). While holding the mmap_sem only for reading, MADV_DONTNEED can run from under us and so before we can assume the pmd to be a regular stable pmd we need to compare it against pmd_none() and pmd_trans_huge() in an atomic way, with pmd_trans_unstable(). The old pmd_trans_huge() left a tiny window for a race. Useful applications are unlikely to notice the difference as doing MADV_DONTNEED concurrently with a page fault would lead to undefined behavior. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tidy up comment grammar/layout] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c14
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 635451abc8f7..8132787ae4d5 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3404,8 +3404,18 @@ static int __handle_mm_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
if (unlikely(pmd_none(*pmd)) &&
unlikely(__pte_alloc(mm, vma, pmd, address)))
return VM_FAULT_OOM;
- /* if an huge pmd materialized from under us just retry later */
- if (unlikely(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd) || pmd_devmap(*pmd)))
+ /*
+ * If a huge pmd materialized under us just retry later. Use
+ * pmd_trans_unstable() instead of pmd_trans_huge() to ensure the pmd
+ * didn't become pmd_trans_huge under us and then back to pmd_none, as
+ * a result of MADV_DONTNEED running immediately after a huge pmd fault
+ * in a different thread of this mm, in turn leading to a misleading
+ * pmd_trans_huge() retval. All we have to ensure is that it is a
+ * regular pmd that we can walk with pte_offset_map() and we can do that
+ * through an atomic read in C, which is what pmd_trans_unstable()
+ * provides.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(pmd_trans_unstable(pmd) || pmd_devmap(*pmd)))
return 0;
/*
* A regular pmd is established and it can't morph into a huge pmd