mm: let mm_find_pmd fix buggy race with THP fault

Trinity has reported:

    BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000018
    IP: __lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3070 (discriminator 1))
    CPU: 6 PID: 16173 Comm: trinity-c364 Tainted: G        W
                            3.15.0-rc1-next-20140415-sasha-00020-gaa90d09 #398
    lock_acquire (arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:14
                  kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3602)
    _raw_spin_lock (include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:143
                    kernel/locking/spinlock.c:151)
    remove_migration_pte (mm/migrate.c:137)
    rmap_walk (mm/rmap.c:1628 mm/rmap.c:1699)
    remove_migration_ptes (mm/migrate.c:224)
    migrate_pages (mm/migrate.c:922 mm/migrate.c:960 mm/migrate.c:1126)
    migrate_misplaced_page (mm/migrate.c:1733)
    __handle_mm_fault (mm/memory.c:3762 mm/memory.c:3812 mm/memory.c:3925)
    handle_mm_fault (mm/memory.c:3948)
    __get_user_pages (mm/memory.c:1851)
    __mlock_vma_pages_range (mm/mlock.c:255)
    __mm_populate (mm/mlock.c:711)
    SyS_mlockall (include/linux/mm.h:1799 mm/mlock.c:817 mm/mlock.c:791)

I believe this comes about because, whereas collapsing and splitting THP
functions take anon_vma lock in write mode (which excludes concurrent
rmap walks), faulting THP functions (write protection and misplaced
NUMA) do not - and mostly they do not need to.

But they do use a pmdp_clear_flush(), set_pmd_at() sequence which, for
an instant (indeed, for a long instant, given the inter-CPU TLB flush in
there), leaves *pmd neither present not trans_huge.

Which can confuse a concurrent rmap walk, as when removing migration
ptes, seen in the dumped trace.  Although that rmap walk has a 4k page
to insert, anon_vmas containing THPs are in no way segregated from
4k-page anon_vmas, so the 4k-intent mm_find_pmd() does need to cope with
that instant when a trans_huge pmd is temporarily absent.

I don't think we need strengthen the locking at the THP end: it's easily
handled with an ACCESS_ONCE() before testing both conditions.

And since mm_find_pmd() had only one caller who wanted a THP rather than
a pmd, let's slightly repurpose it to fail when it hits a THP or
non-present pmd, and open code split_huge_page_address() again.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index bf05fc872ae8..b7e94ebbd09e 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -569,6 +569,7 @@ pmd_t *mm_find_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address)
 	pgd_t *pgd;
 	pud_t *pud;
 	pmd_t *pmd = NULL;
+	pmd_t pmde;
 
 	pgd = pgd_offset(mm, address);
 	if (!pgd_present(*pgd))
@@ -579,7 +580,13 @@ pmd_t *mm_find_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address)
 		goto out;
 
 	pmd = pmd_offset(pud, address);
-	if (!pmd_present(*pmd))
+	/*
+	 * Some THP functions use the sequence pmdp_clear_flush(), set_pmd_at()
+	 * without holding anon_vma lock for write.  So when looking for a
+	 * genuine pmde (in which to find pte), test present and !THP together.
+	 */
+	pmde = ACCESS_ONCE(*pmd);
+	if (!pmd_present(pmde) || pmd_trans_huge(pmde))
 		pmd = NULL;
 out:
 	return pmd;
@@ -615,9 +622,6 @@ pte_t *__page_check_address(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm,
 	if (!pmd)
 		return NULL;
 
-	if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd))
-		return NULL;
-
 	pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, address);
 	/* Make a quick check before getting the lock */
 	if (!sync && !pte_present(*pte)) {