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    hugetlbfs: close race between MADV_DONTNEED and page fault · 2820b0f0
    Rik van Riel authored
    Malloc libraries, like jemalloc and tcalloc, take decisions on when to
    call madvise independently from the code in the main application.
    
    This sometimes results in the application page faulting on an address,
    right after the malloc library has shot down the backing memory with
    MADV_DONTNEED.
    
    Usually this is harmless, because we always have some 4kB pages sitting
    around to satisfy a page fault.  However, with hugetlbfs systems often
    allocate only the exact number of huge pages that the application wants.
    
    Due to TLB batching, hugetlbfs MADV_DONTNEED will free pages outside of
    any lock taken on the page fault path, which can open up the following
    race condition:
    
           CPU 1                            CPU 2
    
           MADV_DONTNEED
           unmap page
           shoot down TLB entry
                                           page fault
                                           fail to allocate a huge page
                                           killed with SIGBUS
           free page
    
    Fix that race by pulling the locking from __unmap_hugepage_final_range
    into helper functions called from zap_page_range_single.  This ensures
    page faults stay locked out of the MADV_DONTNEED VMA until the huge pages
    have actually been freed.
    
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231006040020.3677377-4-riel@surriel.com
    Fixes: 04ada095 ("hugetlb: don't delete vma_lock in hugetlb MADV_DONTNEED processing")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
    Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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