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Commit a9846049 authored by Hugh Dickins's avatar Hugh Dickins Committed by Andrew Morton
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mm/khugepaged: fix collapse_pte_mapped_thp() versus uffd

Jann Horn demonstrated how userfaultfd ioctl UFFDIO_COPY into a private
shmem mapping can add valid PTEs to page table collapse_pte_mapped_thp()
thought it had emptied: page lock on the huge page is enough to protect
against WP faults (which find the PTE has been cleared), but not enough to
protect against userfaultfd.  "BUG: Bad rss-counter state" followed.

retract_page_tables() protects against this by checking !vma->anon_vma;
but we know that MADV_COLLAPSE needs to be able to work on private shmem
mappings, even those with an anon_vma prepared for another part of the
mapping; and we know that MADV_COLLAPSE needs to work on shared shmem
mappings which are userfaultfd_armed().  Whether it needs to work on
private shmem mappings which are userfaultfd_armed(), I'm not so sure: but
assume that it does.

Just for this case, take the pmd_lock() two steps earlier: not because it
gives any protection against this case itself, but because ptlock nests
inside it, and it's the dropping of ptlock which let the bug in.  In other
cases, continue to minimize the pmd_lock() hold time.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4d31abf5-56c0-9f3d-d12f-c9317936691@google.com


Fixes: 1043173e ("mm/khugepaged: collapse_pte_mapped_thp() with mmap_read_lock()")
Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reported-by: default avatarJann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAG48ez0FxiRC4d3VTu_a9h=rg5FW-kYD5Rg5xo_RDBM0LTTqZQ@mail.gmail.com/


Acked-by: default avatarPeter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 6c141973
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