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authorNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>2015-02-11 15:25:19 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-02-11 17:06:01 -0800
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mm/hugetlb: pmd_huge() returns true for non-present hugepage
Migrating hugepages and hwpoisoned hugepages are considered as non-present hugepages, and they are referenced via migration entries and hwpoison entries in their page table slots. This behavior causes race condition because pmd_huge() doesn't tell non-huge pages from migrating/hwpoisoned hugepages. follow_page_mask() is one example where the kernel would call follow_page_pte() for such hugepage while this function is supposed to handle only normal pages. To avoid this, this patch makes pmd_huge() return true when pmd_none() is true *and* pmd_present() is false. We don't have to worry about mixing up non-present pmd entry with normal pmd (pointing to leaf level pte entry) because pmd_present() is true in normal pmd. The same race condition could happen in (x86-specific) gup_pmd_range(), where this patch simply adds pmd_present() check instead of pmd_huge(). This is because gup_pmd_range() is fast path. If we have non-present hugepage in this function, we will go into gup_huge_pmd(), then return 0 at flag mask check, and finally fall back to the slow path. Fixes: 290408d4a2 ("hugetlb: hugepage migration core") Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [2.6.36+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/hugetlb.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index f533d336e569..d96b8bfa748f 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3679,6 +3679,8 @@ follow_huge_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
{
struct page *page;
+ if (!pmd_present(*pmd))
+ return NULL;
page = pte_page(*(pte_t *)pmd);
if (page)
page += ((address & ~PMD_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT);