mm/hugetlb: make walk_hugetlb_range() safe to pmd unshare

Since walk_hugetlb_range() walks the pgtable, it needs the vma lock to
make sure the pgtable page will not be freed concurrently.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221216155226.2043738-1-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/hmm.c b/mm/hmm.c
index 601a99ce3c84..6a151c09de5e 100644
--- a/mm/hmm.c
+++ b/mm/hmm.c
@@ -492,8 +492,21 @@ static int hmm_vma_walk_hugetlb_entry(pte_t *pte, unsigned long hmask,
 	required_fault =
 		hmm_pte_need_fault(hmm_vma_walk, pfn_req_flags, cpu_flags);
 	if (required_fault) {
+		int ret;
+
 		spin_unlock(ptl);
-		return hmm_vma_fault(addr, end, required_fault, walk);
+		hugetlb_vma_unlock_read(vma);
+		/*
+		 * Avoid deadlock: drop the vma lock before calling
+		 * hmm_vma_fault(), which will itself potentially take and
+		 * drop the vma lock. This is also correct from a
+		 * protection point of view, because there is no further
+		 * use here of either pte or ptl after dropping the vma
+		 * lock.
+		 */
+		ret = hmm_vma_fault(addr, end, required_fault, walk);
+		hugetlb_vma_lock_read(vma);
+		return ret;
 	}
 
 	pfn = pte_pfn(entry) + ((start & ~hmask) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
diff --git a/mm/pagewalk.c b/mm/pagewalk.c
index 7f1c9b274906..d98564a7be57 100644
--- a/mm/pagewalk.c
+++ b/mm/pagewalk.c
@@ -302,6 +302,7 @@ static int walk_hugetlb_range(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 	const struct mm_walk_ops *ops = walk->ops;
 	int err = 0;
 
+	hugetlb_vma_lock_read(vma);
 	do {
 		next = hugetlb_entry_end(h, addr, end);
 		pte = huge_pte_offset(walk->mm, addr & hmask, sz);
@@ -314,6 +315,7 @@ static int walk_hugetlb_range(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 		if (err)
 			break;
 	} while (addr = next, addr != end);
+	hugetlb_vma_unlock_read(vma);
 
 	return err;
 }