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: a00cc7d9 ("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>
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