hugetlbfs: close race between MADV_DONTNEED and page fault
authorRik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Fri, 6 Oct 2023 03:59:08 +0000 (23:59 -0400)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 18 Oct 2023 19:12:41 +0000 (12:12 -0700)
commit2820b0f09be99f6406784b03a22dfc83e858449d
treeace7c3d43420781b543bb61506bd98ee7fc557a0
parentbf4916922c60f43efaa329744b3eef539aa6a2b2
hugetlbfs: close race between MADV_DONTNEED and page fault

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: 04ada095dcfc ("hugetlb: don't delete vma_lock in hugetlb MADV_DONTNEED processing")
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike 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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/hugetlb.h
mm/hugetlb.c
mm/memory.c