The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
Possible dependencies:
023f47a8250c ("mm/khugepaged: fix ->anon_vma race") 34488399fa08 ("mm/madvise: add file and shmem support to MADV_COLLAPSE") 58ac9a8993a1 ("mm/khugepaged: attempt to map file/shmem-backed pte-mapped THPs by pmds") 780a4b6fb865 ("mm/khugepaged: check compound_order() in collapse_pte_mapped_thp()") b26e27015ec9 ("mm: thp: convert to use common struct mm_slot") 685405020b9f ("mm/khugepaged: stop using vma linked list") 7d2c4385c341 ("mm/khugepaged: rename prefix of shared collapse functions") 7d8faaf15545 ("mm/madvise: introduce MADV_COLLAPSE sync hugepage collapse") 507228044236 ("mm/khugepaged: record SCAN_PMD_MAPPED when scan_pmd() finds hugepage") a7f4e6e4c47c ("mm/thp: add flag to enforce sysfs THP in hugepage_vma_check()") 50ad2f24b3b4 ("mm/khugepaged: propagate enum scan_result codes back to callers") 9710a78ab2ae ("mm/khugepaged: dedup and simplify hugepage alloc and charging") 34d6b470ab9c ("mm/khugepaged: add struct collapse_control") c6a7f445a272 ("mm: khugepaged: don't carry huge page to the next loop for !CONFIG_NUMA") 1064026bab9f ("mm: khugepaged: reorg some khugepaged helpers") 7da4e2cb8b1f ("mm: thp: kill __transhuge_page_enabled()") 9fec51689ff6 ("mm: thp: kill transparent_hugepage_active()") f707fa493784 ("mm: khugepaged: better comments for anon vma check in hugepage_vma_revalidate") 4fa6893faeaa ("mm: thp: consolidate vma size check to transhuge_vma_suitable") 66137fb34a4b ("mm: khugepaged: check THP flag in hugepage_vma_check()")
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 023f47a8250c6bdb4aebe744db4bf7f73414028b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jann Horn jannh@google.com Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 14:33:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] mm/khugepaged: fix ->anon_vma race
If an ->anon_vma is attached to the VMA, collapse_and_free_pmd() requires it to be locked.
Page table traversal is allowed under any one of the mmap lock, the anon_vma lock (if the VMA is associated with an anon_vma), and the mapping lock (if the VMA is associated with a mapping); and so to be able to remove page tables, we must hold all three of them. retract_page_tables() bails out if an ->anon_vma is attached, but does this check before holding the mmap lock (as the comment above the check explains).
If we racily merged an existing ->anon_vma (shared with a child process) from a neighboring VMA, subsequent rmap traversals on pages belonging to the child will be able to see the page tables that we are concurrently removing while assuming that nothing else can access them.
Repeat the ->anon_vma check once we hold the mmap lock to ensure that there really is no concurrent page table access.
Hitting this bug causes a lockdep warning in collapse_and_free_pmd(), in the line "lockdep_assert_held_write(&vma->anon_vma->root->rwsem)". It can also lead to use-after-free access.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAG48ez3434wZBKFFbdx4M9j6eUwSUVPd4dxhzW_k_P... Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230111133351.807024-1-jannh@google.com Fixes: f3f0e1d2150b ("khugepaged: add support of collapse for tmpfs/shmem pages") Signed-off-by: Jann Horn jannh@google.com Reported-by: Zach O'Keefe zokeefe@google.com Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov kirill.shutemov@intel.linux.com Reviewed-by: Yang Shi shy828301@gmail.com Cc: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c index 79be13133322..935aa8b71d1c 100644 --- a/mm/khugepaged.c +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c @@ -1642,7 +1642,7 @@ static int retract_page_tables(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t pgoff, * has higher cost too. It would also probably require locking * the anon_vma. */ - if (vma->anon_vma) { + if (READ_ONCE(vma->anon_vma)) { result = SCAN_PAGE_ANON; goto next; } @@ -1670,6 +1670,18 @@ static int retract_page_tables(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t pgoff, result = SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE; if ((cc->is_khugepaged || is_target) && mmap_write_trylock(mm)) { + /* + * Re-check whether we have an ->anon_vma, because + * collapse_and_free_pmd() requires that either no + * ->anon_vma exists or the anon_vma is locked. + * We already checked ->anon_vma above, but that check + * is racy because ->anon_vma can be populated under the + * mmap lock in read mode. + */ + if (vma->anon_vma) { + result = SCAN_PAGE_ANON; + goto unlock_next; + } /* * When a vma is registered with uffd-wp, we can't * recycle the pmd pgtable because there can be pte