linux-sg2042/arch/x86/mm
Michal Hocko eb48c07146 mm: hugetlbfs: correctly populate shared pmd
Each page mapped in a process's address space must be correctly
accounted for in _mapcount.  Normally the rules for this are
straightforward but hugetlbfs page table sharing is different.  The page
table pages at the PMD level are reference counted while the mapcount
remains the same.

If this accounting is wrong, it causes bugs like this one reported by
Larry Woodman:

  kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:135!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
  CPU 22
  Modules linked in: bridge stp llc sunrpc binfmt_misc dcdbas microcode pcspkr acpi_pad acpi]
  Pid: 18001, comm: mpitest Tainted: G        W    3.3.0+ #4 Dell Inc. PowerEdge R620/07NDJ2
  RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8112cfed>]  [<ffffffff8112cfed>] __delete_from_page_cache+0x15d/0x170
  Process mpitest (pid: 18001, threadinfo ffff880428972000, task ffff880428b5cc20)
  Call Trace:
    delete_from_page_cache+0x40/0x80
    truncate_hugepages+0x115/0x1f0
    hugetlbfs_evict_inode+0x18/0x30
    evict+0x9f/0x1b0
    iput_final+0xe3/0x1e0
    iput+0x3e/0x50
    d_kill+0xf8/0x110
    dput+0xe2/0x1b0
    __fput+0x162/0x240

During fork(), copy_hugetlb_page_range() detects if huge_pte_alloc()
shared page tables with the check dst_pte == src_pte.  The logic is if
the PMD page is the same, they must be shared.  This assumes that the
sharing is between the parent and child.  However, if the sharing is
with a different process entirely then this check fails as in this
diagram:

  parent
    |
    ------------>pmd
                 src_pte----------> data page
                                        ^
  other--------->pmd--------------------|
                  ^
  child-----------|
                 dst_pte

For this situation to occur, it must be possible for Parent and Other to
have faulted and failed to share page tables with each other.  This is
possible due to the following style of race.

  PROC A                                          PROC B
  copy_hugetlb_page_range                         copy_hugetlb_page_range
    src_pte == huge_pte_offset                      src_pte == huge_pte_offset
    !src_pte so no sharing                          !src_pte so no sharing

  (time passes)

  hugetlb_fault                                   hugetlb_fault
    huge_pte_alloc                                  huge_pte_alloc
      huge_pmd_share                                 huge_pmd_share
        LOCK(i_mmap_mutex)
        find nothing, no sharing
        UNLOCK(i_mmap_mutex)
                                                      LOCK(i_mmap_mutex)
                                                      find nothing, no sharing
                                                      UNLOCK(i_mmap_mutex)
      pmd_alloc                                       pmd_alloc
      LOCK(instantiation_mutex)
      fault
      UNLOCK(instantiation_mutex)
                                                  LOCK(instantiation_mutex)
                                                  fault
                                                  UNLOCK(instantiation_mutex)

These two processes are not poing to the same data page but are not
sharing page tables because the opportunity was missed.  When either
process later forks, the src_pte == dst pte is potentially insufficient.
As the check falls through, the wrong PTE information is copied in
(harmless but wrong) and the mapcount is bumped for a page mapped by a
shared page table leading to the BUG_ON.

This patch addresses the issue by moving pmd_alloc into huge_pmd_share
which guarantees that the shared pud is populated in the same critical
section as pmd.  This also means that huge_pte_offset test in
huge_pmd_share is serialized correctly now which in turn means that the
success of the sharing will be higher as the racing tasks see the pud
and pmd populated together.

Race identified and changelog written mostly by Mel Gorman.

{akpm@linux-foundation.org: attempt to make the huge_pmd_share() comment comprehensible, clean up coding style]
Reported-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-08-21 16:45:02 -07:00
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kmemcheck bug.h: add include of it to various implicit C users 2012-02-29 17:15:08 -05:00
Makefile memblock, x86: Replace memblock_x86_reserve/free_range() with generic ones 2011-07-14 11:47:53 -07:00
amdtopology.c x86, NUMA: Enable CONFIG_AMD_NUMA on 32bit too 2011-05-02 17:24:48 +02:00
dump_pagetables.c x86, mm: Create symbolic index into address_markers array 2010-07-20 16:56:19 -07:00
extable.c x86, extable: Switch to relative exception table entries 2012-04-20 17:22:34 -07:00
fault.c userns: Store uid and gid values in struct cred with kuid_t and kgid_t types 2012-05-03 03:28:38 -07:00
gup.c thp: add compound tail page _mapcount when mapped 2011-12-09 07:50:28 -08:00
highmem_32.c highmem: kill all __kmap_atomic() 2012-03-20 21:48:30 +08:00
hugetlbpage.c mm: hugetlbfs: correctly populate shared pmd 2012-08-21 16:45:02 -07:00
init.c x86/mm: Mark free_initrd_mem() as __init 2012-06-20 14:33:47 +02:00
init_32.c Disintegrate asm/system.h for X86 2012-03-28 18:11:12 +01:00
init_64.c Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-05-23 11:06:59 -07:00
iomap_32.c mm: fix race in kunmap_atomic() 2010-10-27 18:03:05 -07:00
ioremap.c x86/mm: Fix some kernel-doc warnings 2012-06-11 10:54:45 +02:00
kmmio.c x86, kmmio/mmiotrace: Fix double free of kmmio_fault_pages 2010-06-18 11:30:09 +02:00
memtest.c memblock, x86: Replace memblock_x86_reserve/free_range() with generic ones 2011-07-14 11:47:53 -07:00
mmap.c x86: Fix mmap random address range 2011-12-05 17:07:23 +01:00
mmio-mod.c module_param: make bool parameters really bool (arch) 2012-01-13 09:32:18 +10:30
numa.c x86: print physical addresses consistently with other parts of kernel 2012-05-29 16:22:21 -07:00
numa_32.c memblock, x86: Replace memblock_x86_reserve/free_range() with generic ones 2011-07-14 11:47:53 -07:00
numa_64.c memblock, x86: Make free_all_memory_core_early() explicitly free lowmem only 2011-07-14 11:47:49 -07:00
numa_emulation.c x86: print physical addresses consistently with other parts of kernel 2012-05-29 16:22:21 -07:00
numa_internal.h x86, NUMA: Initialize and use remap allocator from setup_node_bootmem() 2011-05-02 14:18:54 +02:00
pageattr-test.c x86: Convert vmalloc()+memset() to vzalloc() 2011-05-28 19:53:57 +02:00
pageattr.c Revert "x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with platform wall clock" 2012-08-14 09:58:25 -07:00
pat.c Merge branch 'x86/trampoline' into x86/urgent 2012-05-30 12:11:32 -07:00
pat_internal.h x86, pat: Fix memory leak in free_memtype 2010-05-26 11:26:04 -07:00
pat_rbtree.c rbtree: Undo augmented trees performance damage and regression 2010-07-05 14:43:50 +02:00
pf_in.c x86: Eliminate various 'set but not used' warnings 2011-05-21 19:10:33 +02:00
pf_in.h x86 mmiotrace: move files into arch/x86/mm/. 2008-05-24 11:25:37 +02:00
pgtable.c x86: Flush TLB if PGD entry is changed in i386 PAE mode 2011-03-18 11:44:01 +01:00
pgtable_32.c Disintegrate asm/system.h for X86 2012-03-28 18:11:12 +01:00
physaddr.c x86: split __phys_addr out into separate file 2009-09-10 11:48:55 -07:00
physaddr.h x86: split __phys_addr out into separate file 2009-09-10 11:48:55 -07:00
setup_nx.c x86, cpu: Only CPU features determine NX capabilities 2010-11-10 15:43:15 -08:00
srat.c ACPI: Only count valid srat memory structures 2012-08-03 00:15:53 -04:00
testmmiotrace.c x86, kmmio/mmiotrace: Fix double free of kmmio_fault_pages 2010-06-18 11:30:09 +02:00
tlb.c x86/tlb: do flush_tlb_kernel_range by 'invlpg' 2012-06-27 19:29:14 -07:00