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Commit 41927dd1 authored by Dan Williams's avatar Dan Williams Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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x86/mm: Fix leak of pmd ptlock



commit d1c5246e upstream.

Commit

  28ee90fe ("x86/mm: implement free pmd/pte page interfaces")

introduced a new location where a pmd was released, but neglected to
run the pmd page destructor. In fact, this happened previously for a
different pmd release path and was fixed by commit:

  c283610e ("x86, mm: do not leak page->ptl for pmd page tables").

This issue was hidden until recently because the failure mode is silent,
but commit:

  b2b29d6d ("mm: account PMD tables like PTE tables")

turns the failure mode into this signature:

 BUG: Bad page state in process lt-pmem-ns  pfn:15943d
 page:000000007262ed7b refcount:0 mapcount:-1024 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x15943d
 flags: 0xaffff800000000()
 raw: 00affff800000000 dead000000000100 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
 raw: 0000000000000000 ffff913a029bcc08 00000000fffffbff 0000000000000000
 page dumped because: nonzero mapcount
 [..]
  dump_stack+0x8b/0xb0
  bad_page.cold+0x63/0x94
  free_pcp_prepare+0x224/0x270
  free_unref_page+0x18/0xd0
  pud_free_pmd_page+0x146/0x160
  ioremap_pud_range+0xe3/0x350
  ioremap_page_range+0x108/0x160
  __ioremap_caller.constprop.0+0x174/0x2b0
  ? memremap+0x7a/0x110
  memremap+0x7a/0x110
  devm_memremap+0x53/0xa0
  pmem_attach_disk+0x4ed/0x530 [nd_pmem]
  ? __devm_release_region+0x52/0x80
  nvdimm_bus_probe+0x85/0x210 [libnvdimm]

Given this is a repeat occurrence it seemed prudent to look for other
places where this destructor might be missing and whether a better
helper is needed. try_to_free_pmd_page() looks like a candidate, but
testing with setting up and tearing down pmd mappings via the dax unit
tests is thus far not triggering the failure.

As for a better helper pmd_free() is close, but it is a messy fit
due to requiring an @mm arg. Also, ___pmd_free_tlb() wants to call
paravirt_tlb_remove_table() instead of free_page(), so open-coded
pgtable_pmd_page_dtor() seems the best way forward for now.

Debugged together with Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>.

Fixes: 28ee90fe ("x86/mm: implement free pmd/pte page interfaces")
Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: default avatarYi Zhang <yi.zhang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160697689204.605323.17629854984697045602.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent c1a0af0c
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