Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] mm/hugetlb: add migration entry check in hugetlb_change_protection

From: Hugh Dickins
Date: Wed Sep 03 2014 - 21:08:29 EST


On Thu, 28 Aug 2014, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:

> There is a race condition between hugepage migration and change_protection(),
> where hugetlb_change_protection() doesn't care about migration entries and
> wrongly overwrites them. That causes unexpected results like kernel crash.
>
> This patch adds is_hugetlb_entry_(migration|hwpoisoned) check in this
> function to do proper actions.
>
> ChangeLog v3:
> - handle migration entry correctly (instead of just skipping)
>
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # [2.6.36+]

2.6.36+? For the hwpoisoned part of it, I suppose.
Then you'd better mentioned the hwpoisoned case in the comment above.

> ---
> mm/hugetlb.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git mmotm-2014-08-25-16-52.orig/mm/hugetlb.c mmotm-2014-08-25-16-52/mm/hugetlb.c
> index 2aafe073cb06..1ed9df6def54 100644
> --- mmotm-2014-08-25-16-52.orig/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ mmotm-2014-08-25-16-52/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -3362,7 +3362,26 @@ unsigned long hugetlb_change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> spin_unlock(ptl);
> continue;
> }
> - if (!huge_pte_none(huge_ptep_get(ptep))) {
> + pte = huge_ptep_get(ptep);
> + if (unlikely(is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned(pte))) {
> + spin_unlock(ptl);
> + continue;
> + }
> + if (unlikely(is_hugetlb_entry_migration(pte))) {
> + swp_entry_t entry = pte_to_swp_entry(pte);
> +
> + if (is_write_migration_entry(entry)) {
> + pte_t newpte;
> +
> + make_migration_entry_read(&entry);
> + newpte = swp_entry_to_pte(entry);
> + set_pte_at(mm, address, ptep, newpte);

set_huge_pte_at.

(As usual, I can't bear to see these is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned and
is_hugetlb_entry_migration examples go past without bleating about
wanting to streamline them a little; but agreed last time to leave
that to some later cleanup once all the stable backports are stable.)

> + pages++;
> + }
> + spin_unlock(ptl);
> + continue;
> + }
> + if (!huge_pte_none(pte)) {
> pte = huge_ptep_get_and_clear(mm, address, ptep);
> pte = pte_mkhuge(huge_pte_modify(pte, newprot));
> pte = arch_make_huge_pte(pte, vma, NULL, 0);
> --
> 1.9.3
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/