mm: khugepaged: skip huge page collapse for special files
authorYang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Thu, 28 Oct 2021 21:36:30 +0000 (14:36 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:18:55 +0000 (17:18 -0700)
commita4aeaa06d45e90f9b279f0b09de84bd00006e733
tree4c520713adb8533a463e899239c931b484e4422f
parent74c42e1baacf206338b1dd6b6199ac964512b5bb
mm: khugepaged: skip huge page collapse for special files

The read-only THP for filesystems will collapse THP for files opened
readonly and mapped with VM_EXEC.  The intended usecase is to avoid TLB
misses for large text segments.  But it doesn't restrict the file types
so a THP could be collapsed for a non-regular file, for example, block
device, if it is opened readonly and mapped with EXEC permission.  This
may cause bugs, like [1] and [2].

This is definitely not the intended usecase, so just collapse THP for
regular files in order to close the attack surface.

[shy828301@gmail.com: fix vm_file check [3]]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CACkBjsYwLYLRmX8GpsDpMthagWOjWWrNxqY6ZLNQVr6yx+f5vA@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/000000000000c6a82505ce284e4c@google.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHbLzkqTW9U3VvTu1Ki5v_cLRC9gHW+znBukg_ycergE0JWj-A@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211027195221.3825-1-shy828301@gmail.com
Fixes: 99cb0dbd47a1 ("mm,thp: add read-only THP support for (non-shmem) FS")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Hao Sun <sunhao.th@gmail.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+aae069be1de40fb11825@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/khugepaged.c