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    mm/khugepaged: take the right locks for page table retraction · 8d3c106e
    Jann Horn 提交于
    pagetable walks on address ranges mapped by VMAs can be done under the
    mmap lock, the lock of an anon_vma attached to the VMA, or the lock of the
    VMA's address_space.  Only one of these needs to be held, and it does not
    need to be held in exclusive mode.
    
    Under those circumstances, the rules for concurrent access to page table
    entries are:
    
     - Terminal page table entries (entries that don't point to another page
       table) can be arbitrarily changed under the page table lock, with the
       exception that they always need to be consistent for
       hardware page table walks and lockless_pages_from_mm().
       This includes that they can be changed into non-terminal entries.
     - Non-terminal page table entries (which point to another page table)
       can not be modified; readers are allowed to READ_ONCE() an entry, verify
       that it is non-terminal, and then assume that its value will stay as-is.
    
    Retracting a page table involves modifying a non-terminal entry, so
    page-table-level locks are insufficient to protect against concurrent page
    table traversal; it requires taking all the higher-level locks under which
    it is possible to start a page walk in the relevant range in exclusive
    mode.
    
    The collapse_huge_page() path for anonymous THP already follows this rule,
    but the shmem/file THP path was getting it wrong, making it possible for
    concurrent rmap-based operations to cause corruption.
    
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221129154730.2274278-1-jannh@google.com
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221128180252.1684965-1-jannh@google.com
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221125213714.4115729-1-jannh@google.com
    Fixes: 27e1f827 ("khugepaged: enable collapse pmd for pte-mapped THP")
    Signed-off-by: NJann Horn <jannh@google.com>
    Reviewed-by: NYang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
    Acked-by: NDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
    Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
    Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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