The patch titled Subject: hugetlb: don't delete vma_lock in hugetlb MADV_DONTNEED processing has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is hugetlb-dont-delete-vma_lock-in-hugetlb-madv_dontneed-processing.patch

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------------------------------------------------------ From: Mike Kravetz mike.kravetz@oracle.com Subject: hugetlb: don't delete vma_lock in hugetlb MADV_DONTNEED processing Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 15:55:06 -0800

madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) ends up calling zap_page_range() to clear page tables associated with the address range. For hugetlb vmas, zap_page_range will call __unmap_hugepage_range_final. However, __unmap_hugepage_range_final assumes the passed vma is about to be removed and deletes the vma_lock to prevent pmd sharing as the vma is on the way out. In the case of madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) the vma remains, but the missing vma_lock prevents pmd sharing and could potentially lead to issues with truncation/fault races.

This issue was originally reported here [1] as a BUG triggered in page_try_dup_anon_rmap. Prior to the introduction of the hugetlb vma_lock, __unmap_hugepage_range_final cleared the VM_MAYSHARE flag to prevent pmd sharing. Subsequent faults on this vma were confused as VM_MAYSHARE indicates a sharable vma, but was not set so page_mapping was not set in new pages added to the page table. This resulted in pages that appeared anonymous in a VM_SHARED vma and triggered the BUG.

Address issue by adding a new zap flag ZAP_FLAG_UNMAP to indicate an unmap call from unmap_vmas(). This is used to indicate the 'final' unmapping of a hugetlb vma. When called via MADV_DONTNEED, this flag is not set and the vm_lock is not deleted.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAO4mrfdLMXsao9RF4fUE8-Wfde8xmjsKrTNMNC9wjUb6Ju...

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221114235507.294320-3-mike.kravetz@oracle.com Fixes: 90e7e7f5ef3f ("mm: enable MADV_DONTNEED for hugetlb mappings") Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz mike.kravetz@oracle.com Reported-by: Wei Chen harperchen1110@gmail.com Cc: Axel Rasmussen axelrasmussen@google.com Cc: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Cc: Matthew Wilcox willy@infradead.org Cc: Mina Almasry almasrymina@google.com Cc: Nadav Amit nadav.amit@gmail.com Cc: Naoya Horiguchi naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev Cc: Peter Xu peterx@redhat.com Cc: Rik van Riel riel@surriel.com Cc: Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---

include/linux/mm.h | 2 ++ mm/hugetlb.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++----------- mm/memory.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/mm.h~hugetlb-dont-delete-vma_lock-in-hugetlb-madv_dontneed-processing +++ a/include/linux/mm.h @@ -1868,6 +1868,8 @@ struct zap_details { * default, the flag is not set. */ #define ZAP_FLAG_DROP_MARKER ((__force zap_flags_t) BIT(0)) +/* Set in unmap_vmas() to indicate a final unmap call. Only used by hugetlb */ +#define ZAP_FLAG_UNMAP ((__force zap_flags_t) BIT(1))

#ifdef CONFIG_MMU extern bool can_do_mlock(void); --- a/mm/hugetlb.c~hugetlb-dont-delete-vma_lock-in-hugetlb-madv_dontneed-processing +++ a/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -5204,17 +5204,22 @@ void __unmap_hugepage_range_final(struct

__unmap_hugepage_range(tlb, vma, start, end, ref_page, zap_flags);

- /* - * Unlock and free the vma lock before releasing i_mmap_rwsem. When - * the vma_lock is freed, this makes the vma ineligible for pmd - * sharing. And, i_mmap_rwsem is required to set up pmd sharing. - * This is important as page tables for this unmapped range will - * be asynchrously deleted. If the page tables are shared, there - * will be issues when accessed by someone else. - */ - __hugetlb_vma_unlock_write_free(vma); - - i_mmap_unlock_write(vma->vm_file->f_mapping); + if (zap_flags & ZAP_FLAG_UNMAP) { /* final unmap */ + /* + * Unlock and free the vma lock before releasing i_mmap_rwsem. + * When the vma_lock is freed, this makes the vma ineligible + * for pmd sharing. And, i_mmap_rwsem is required to set up + * pmd sharing. This is important as page tables for this + * unmapped range will be asynchrously deleted. If the page + * tables are shared, there will be issues when accessed by + * someone else. + */ + __hugetlb_vma_unlock_write_free(vma); + i_mmap_unlock_write(vma->vm_file->f_mapping); + } else { + i_mmap_unlock_write(vma->vm_file->f_mapping); + hugetlb_vma_unlock_write(vma); + } }

void unmap_hugepage_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start, --- a/mm/memory.c~hugetlb-dont-delete-vma_lock-in-hugetlb-madv_dontneed-processing +++ a/mm/memory.c @@ -1711,7 +1711,7 @@ void unmap_vmas(struct mmu_gather *tlb, { struct mmu_notifier_range range; struct zap_details details = { - .zap_flags = ZAP_FLAG_DROP_MARKER, + .zap_flags = ZAP_FLAG_DROP_MARKER | ZAP_FLAG_UNMAP, /* Careful - we need to zap private pages too! */ .even_cows = true, }; _

Patches currently in -mm which might be from mike.kravetz@oracle.com are

ipc-shm-call-underlying-open-close-vm_ops.patch madvise-use-zap_page_range_single-for-madvise-dontneed.patch hugetlb-dont-delete-vma_lock-in-hugetlb-madv_dontneed-processing.patch selftests-vm-update-hugetlb-madvise.patch hugetlb-remove-duplicate-mmu-notifications.patch