[PATCH 19/46] mm/gup: recheck the PUD under PTL in follow_pud_mask()
From: David Hildenbrand (Arm)
Date: Mon Oct 26 2026 - 19:24:11 EST
follow_pud_mask() reads the PUD without a lock. If it is a leaf, it takes
the lock and calls follow_huge_pud(), which reads the entry again, but
only tests whether it is present.
A leaf can be zapped concurrently and a page fault can fill the empty
entry with a page table.
This currently only applies when device-dax makes use of PUD entries,
and the fault after e.g., MADV_DONTNEED would find THPs to be disabled.
That requires a sequence like
1) Fault in the PUD
2) Disable THP
3) Have GUP race against concurrent MADV_DONTNEED + refault
Which is rather unlikely to happen in practice, which is why we never
received a report about such a problem.
Before commit 1b1676180246 ("mm/gup: handle huge pud for
follow_pud_mask()"), we performed that check in follow_devmap_pud() by
testing for pud_devmap().
Let's fix it by just structuring follow_pud_mask() similar to
follow_pmd_mask(), minus protnone stuff that does not apply and minus
FOLL_SPLIT_PMD handling. That makes it much easier to spot any such
inconsistencies.
Perform the pud_bad() check early in follow_pmd_mask() and just forward
the PUD value. We can drop the pud_present() check in follow_huge_pud(),
just like we have in follow_huge_pmd().
Even though we are performing more changes than strictly necessary, the
fix should be easy to backport.
Fixes: 1b1676180246 ("mm/gup: handle huge pud for follow_pud_mask()")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/gup.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index f166acf794e30..efc9aa2654625 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -658,9 +658,6 @@ static struct page *follow_huge_pud(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
assert_spin_locked(pud_lockptr(mm, pudp));
- if (!pud_present(pud))
- return NULL;
-
if ((flags & FOLL_WRITE) &&
!can_follow_write_pud(pud, pfn_to_page(pfn), vma, flags))
return NULL;
@@ -896,15 +893,17 @@ static struct page *follow_page_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
}
static struct page *follow_pmd_mask(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
- unsigned long address, pud_t *pudp,
- unsigned int flags,
- unsigned long *page_mask)
+ unsigned long address, pud_t *pudp, pud_t pud,
+ unsigned int flags, unsigned long *page_mask)
{
pmd_t *pmd, pmdval;
spinlock_t *ptl;
struct page *page;
struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
+ if (unlikely(pud_bad(pud)))
+ return no_page_table(vma, flags, address);
+
pmd = pmd_offset(pudp, address);
pmdval = pmdp_get_lockless(pmd);
if (pmd_none(pmdval))
@@ -953,18 +952,23 @@ static struct page *follow_pud_mask(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
pud = pudp_get(pudp);
if (!pud_present(pud))
return no_page_table(vma, flags, address);
- if (pud_leaf(pud)) {
- ptl = pud_lock(mm, pudp);
- page = follow_huge_pud(vma, address, pudp, flags, page_mask);
+ if (!pud_leaf(pud))
+ return follow_pmd_mask(vma, address, pudp, pud, flags, page_mask);
+
+ ptl = pud_lock(mm, pudp);
+ pud = *pudp;
+ if (unlikely(!pud_present(pud))) {
spin_unlock(ptl);
- if (page)
- return page;
return no_page_table(vma, flags, address);
}
- if (unlikely(pud_bad(pud)))
- return no_page_table(vma, flags, address);
+ if (unlikely(!pud_leaf(pud))) {
+ spin_unlock(ptl);
+ return follow_pmd_mask(vma, address, pudp, pud, flags, page_mask);
+ }
- return follow_pmd_mask(vma, address, pudp, flags, page_mask);
+ page = follow_huge_pud(vma, address, pudp, flags, page_mask);
+ spin_unlock(ptl);
+ return page;
}
static struct page *follow_p4d_mask(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
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