[PATCH 1/7] mm: fix the deadlock in finish_fault()

From: Qi Zheng
Date: Sun Jul 18 2021 - 00:31:12 EST


The commit 63f3655f9501(mm, memcg: fix reclaim deadlock with writeback)
fix a deadlock bug by pre-allocating the pte page table outside of the
page lock, the commit f9ce0be71d1f(mm: Cleanup faultaround and
finish_fault() codepaths) rework the relevant code but ignore this race,
fix it.

Fixes: f9ce0be71d1f(mm: Cleanup faultaround and finish_fault() codepaths)
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory.c | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index db86558791f1..94a17a9a48ab 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -4026,8 +4026,17 @@ vm_fault_t finish_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
return ret;
}

- if (unlikely(pte_alloc(vma->vm_mm, vmf->pmd)))
+ if (vmf->prealloc_pte) {
+ vmf->ptl = pmd_lock(vma->vm_mm, vmf->pmd);
+ if (likely(pmd_none(*vmf->pmd))) {
+ mm_inc_nr_ptes(vma->vm_mm);
+ pmd_populate(vma->vm_mm, vmf->pmd, vmf->prealloc_pte);
+ vmf->prealloc_pte = NULL;
+ }
+ spin_unlock(vmf->ptl);
+ } else if (unlikely(pte_alloc(vma->vm_mm, vmf->pmd))) {
return VM_FAULT_OOM;
+ }
}

/* See comment in handle_pte_fault() */
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