A mirror of the official Linux kernel repository just in case
Go to file
Aneesh Kumar K.V 97113eb39f mm/mremap: hold the rmap lock in write mode when moving page table entries.
To avoid a race between rmap walk and mremap, mremap does
take_rmap_locks().  The lock was taken to ensure that rmap walk don't miss
a page table entry due to PTE moves via move_pagetables().  The kernel
does further optimization of this lock such that if we are going to find
the newly added vma after the old vma, the rmap lock is not taken.  This
is because rmap walk would find the vmas in the same order and if we don't
find the page table attached to older vma we would find it with the new
vma which we would iterate later.

As explained in commit eb66ae0308 ("mremap: properly flush TLB before
releasing the page") mremap is special in that it doesn't take ownership
of the page.  The optimized version for PUD/PMD aligned mremap also
doesn't hold the ptl lock.  This can result in stale TLB entries as show
below.

This patch updates the rmap locking requirement in mremap to handle the race condition
explained below with optimized mremap::

Optmized PMD move

    CPU 1                           CPU 2                                   CPU 3

    mremap(old_addr, new_addr)      page_shrinker/try_to_unmap_one

    mmap_write_lock_killable()

                                    addr = old_addr
                                    lock(pte_ptl)
    lock(pmd_ptl)
    pmd = *old_pmd
    pmd_clear(old_pmd)
    flush_tlb_range(old_addr)

    *new_pmd = pmd
                                                                            *new_addr = 10; and fills
                                                                            TLB with new addr
                                                                            and old pfn

    unlock(pmd_ptl)
                                    ptep_clear_flush()
                                    old pfn is free.
                                                                            Stale TLB entry

Optimized PUD move also suffers from a similar race.  Both the above race
condition can be fixed if we force mremap path to take rmap lock.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210616045239.370802-7-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Fixes: 2c91bd4a4e ("mm: speed up mremap by 20x on large regions")
Fixes: c49dd34018 ("mm: speedup mremap on 1GB or larger regions")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAHk-=wgXVR04eBNtxQfevontWnP6FDm+oj5vauQXP3S-huwbPw@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-07-08 11:48:23 -07:00
arch mm: rename p4d_page_vaddr to p4d_pgtable and make it return pud_t * 2021-07-08 11:48:22 -07:00
block scsi: blkcg: Fix application ID config options 2021-07-04 11:44:22 -07:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.13 (2nd) 2021-05-08 10:00:11 -07:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-06-28 16:04:56 -07:00
Documentation module: add printk formats to add module build ID to stacktraces 2021-07-08 11:48:22 -07:00
drivers xen: branch for v5.14-rc1 2021-07-07 11:07:13 -07:00
fs fuse update for 5.14 2021-07-06 11:17:41 -07:00
include mm: rename p4d_page_vaddr to p4d_pgtable and make it return pud_t * 2021-07-08 11:48:22 -07:00
init buildid: stash away kernels build ID on init 2021-07-08 11:48:22 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-07-02 12:08:10 -07:00
kernel kdump: use vmlinux_build_id to simplify 2021-07-08 11:48:22 -07:00
lib kdump: use vmlinux_build_id to simplify 2021-07-08 11:48:22 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license 2020-12-08 10:33:27 -07:00
mm mm/mremap: hold the rmap lock in write mode when moving page table entries. 2021-07-08 11:48:23 -07:00
net TTY / Serial patches for 5.14-rc1 2021-07-05 14:08:24 -07:00
samples VFIO update for v5.14-rc1 2021-07-03 11:49:33 -07:00
scripts scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: indicate 'auto' can be used for base path 2021-07-08 11:48:22 -07:00
security asm-generic/unaligned: Unify asm/unaligned.h around struct helper 2021-07-02 12:43:40 -07:00
sound TTY / Serial patches for 5.14-rc1 2021-07-05 14:08:24 -07:00
tools selftest/mremap_test: avoid crash with static build 2021-07-08 11:48:22 -07:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
virt Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-06-29 17:29:11 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2021-05-12 23:32:39 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap m68k updates for v5.14 2021-06-28 14:01:03 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: move Murali Karicheri to credits 2021-04-29 15:47:30 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS hwspinlock updates for v5.14 2021-07-07 10:57:51 -07:00
Makefile arm64 updates for 5.14 2021-06-28 14:04:24 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.