mm/memory.c: fix a huge pud insertion race during faulting
authorThomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Sun, 1 Dec 2019 01:51:32 +0000 (17:51 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 1 Dec 2019 14:29:19 +0000 (06:29 -0800)
commit625110b5e9dae9074d8a7e67dd07f821a053eed7
tree0efc9211003e1398c68ba9ca6b91ed3f43bd9af4
parentbf1a12a8095615c9486f5463ca473d2d69ff6952
mm/memory.c: fix a huge pud insertion race during faulting

A huge pud page can theoretically be faulted in racing with pmd_alloc()
in __handle_mm_fault().  That will lead to pmd_alloc() returning an
invalid pmd pointer.

Fix this by adding a pud_trans_unstable() function similar to
pmd_trans_unstable() and check whether the pud is really stable before
using the pmd pointer.

Race:
  Thread 1:             Thread 2:                 Comment
  create_huge_pud()                               Fallback - not taken.
                        create_huge_pud()         Taken.
  pmd_alloc()                                     Returns an invalid pointer.

This will result in user-visible huge page data corruption.

Note that this was caught during a code audit rather than a real
experienced problem.  It looks to me like the only implementation that
currently creates huge pud pagetable entries is dev_dax_huge_fault()
which doesn't appear to care much about private (COW) mappings or
write-tracking which is, I believe, a prerequisite for create_huge_pud()
falling back on thread 1, but not in thread 2.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191115115808.21181-2-thomas_os@shipmail.org
Fixes: a00cc7d9dd93 ("mm, x86: add support for PUD-sized transparent hugepages")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
mm/memory.c