[PATCH v4 2/3] mm/khugepaged: Fix GUP-fast interaction by sending IPI

From: Jann Horn
Date: Mon Nov 28 2022 - 13:19:35 EST


Since commit 70cbc3cc78a99 ("mm: gup: fix the fast GUP race against THP
collapse"), the lockless_pages_from_mm() fastpath rechecks the pmd_t to
ensure that the page table was not removed by khugepaged in between.

However, lockless_pages_from_mm() still requires that the page table is not
concurrently freed or reused to store non-PTE data. Otherwise, problems
can occur because:

- deposited page tables can be freed when a THP page somewhere in the
mm is removed
- some architectures store non-PTE information inside deposited page
tables (see radix__pgtable_trans_huge_deposit())

Additionally, lockless_pages_from_mm() is also somewhat brittle with
regards to page tables being repeatedly moved back and forth, but
that shouldn't be an issue in practice.

Fix it by sending IPIs (if the architecture uses
semi-RCU-style page table freeing) before freeing/reusing page tables.

As noted in mm/gup.c, on configs that define CONFIG_HAVE_FAST_GUP,
there are two possible cases:

1. CONFIG_MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE is set, causing
tlb_remove_table_sync_one() to send an IPI to synchronize with
lockless_pages_from_mm().
2. CONFIG_MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE is unset, indicating that all
TLB flushes are already guaranteed to send IPIs.
tlb_remove_table_sync_one() will do nothing, but we've already
run pmdp_collapse_flush(), which did a TLB flush, which must have
involved IPIs.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: ba76149f47d8 ("thp: khugepaged")
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v4:
- added ack from David Hildenbrand
- made commit message more verbose

include/asm-generic/tlb.h | 4 ++++
mm/khugepaged.c | 2 ++
mm/mmu_gather.c | 4 +---
3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/tlb.h b/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
index 492dce43236ea..cab7cfebf40bd 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
@@ -222,12 +222,16 @@ extern void tlb_remove_table(struct mmu_gather *tlb, void *table);
#define tlb_needs_table_invalidate() (true)
#endif

+void tlb_remove_table_sync_one(void);
+
#else

#ifdef tlb_needs_table_invalidate
#error tlb_needs_table_invalidate() requires MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
#endif

+static inline void tlb_remove_table_sync_one(void) { }
+
#endif /* CONFIG_MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE */


diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 674b111a24fa7..c3d3ce596bff7 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -1057,6 +1057,7 @@ static int collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
_pmd = pmdp_collapse_flush(vma, address, pmd);
spin_unlock(pmd_ptl);
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(&range);
+ tlb_remove_table_sync_one();

spin_lock(pte_ptl);
result = __collapse_huge_page_isolate(vma, address, pte, cc,
@@ -1415,6 +1416,7 @@ static void collapse_and_free_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *v
lockdep_assert_held_write(&vma->anon_vma->root->rwsem);

pmd = pmdp_collapse_flush(vma, addr, pmdp);
+ tlb_remove_table_sync_one();
mm_dec_nr_ptes(mm);
page_table_check_pte_clear_range(mm, addr, pmd);
pte_free(mm, pmd_pgtable(pmd));
diff --git a/mm/mmu_gather.c b/mm/mmu_gather.c
index add4244e5790d..3a2c3f8cad2fe 100644
--- a/mm/mmu_gather.c
+++ b/mm/mmu_gather.c
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ static void tlb_remove_table_smp_sync(void *arg)
/* Simply deliver the interrupt */
}

-static void tlb_remove_table_sync_one(void)
+void tlb_remove_table_sync_one(void)
{
/*
* This isn't an RCU grace period and hence the page-tables cannot be
@@ -177,8 +177,6 @@ static void tlb_remove_table_free(struct mmu_table_batch *batch)

#else /* !CONFIG_MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE */

-static void tlb_remove_table_sync_one(void) { }
-
static void tlb_remove_table_free(struct mmu_table_batch *batch)
{
__tlb_remove_table_free(batch);
--
2.38.1.584.g0f3c55d4c2-goog