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author | Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> | 2015-02-11 15:25:19 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-02-11 17:06:01 -0800 |
commit | cbef8478bee55775ac312a574aad48af7bb9cf9f (patch) | |
tree | 499822b6d58e7239c4266bb940e73b47de8280ce /mm/gup.c | |
parent | 61f77eda9bbf0d2e922197ed2dcf88638a639ce5 (diff) |
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>
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