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| author | Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> | 2025-05-27 23:23:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-06-05 22:02:24 -0700 |
| commit | 1013af4f585fccc4d3e5c5824d174de2257f7d6d (patch) | |
| tree | a37bffb609116bf8b5cf59e7b5634ea43a3d2496 | |
| parent | 081056dc00a27bccb55ccc3c6f230a3d5fd3f7e0 (diff) | |
mm/hugetlb: fix huge_pmd_unshare() vs GUP-fast race
huge_pmd_unshare() drops a reference on a page table that may have
previously been shared across processes, potentially turning it into a
normal page table used in another process in which unrelated VMAs can
afterwards be installed.
If this happens in the middle of a concurrent gup_fast(), gup_fast() could
end up walking the page tables of another process. While I don't see any
way in which that immediately leads to kernel memory corruption, it is
really weird and unexpected.
Fix it with an explicit broadcast IPI through tlb_remove_table_sync_one(),
just like we do in khugepaged when removing page tables for a THP
collapse.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250528-hugetlb-fixes-splitrace-v2-2-1329349bad1a@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250527-hugetlb-fixes-splitrace-v1-2-f4136f5ec58a@google.com
Fixes: 39dde65c9940 ("[PATCH] shared page table for hugetlb page")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/hugetlb.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index 7ba020d489d4..8746ed2fec13 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -7629,6 +7629,13 @@ int huge_pmd_unshare(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, return 0; pud_clear(pud); + /* + * Once our caller drops the rmap lock, some other process might be + * using this page table as a normal, non-hugetlb page table. + * Wait for pending gup_fast() in other threads to finish before letting + * that happen. + */ + tlb_remove_table_sync_one(); ptdesc_pmd_pts_dec(virt_to_ptdesc(ptep)); mm_dec_nr_pmds(mm); return 1; |