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mm/mprotect: delete pmd_none_or_clear_bad_unless_trans_huge()
authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Tue, 6 Jan 2026 11:47:14 +0000 (20:47 +0900)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 11 Jan 2026 14:19:25 +0000 (15:19 +0100)
commit 670ddd8cdcbd1d07a4571266ae3517f821728c3a upstream.

change_pmd_range() had special pmd_none_or_clear_bad_unless_trans_huge(),
required to avoid "bad" choices when setting automatic NUMA hinting under
mmap_read_lock(); but most of that is already covered in pte_offset_map()
now.  change_pmd_range() just wants a pmd_none() check before wasting time
on MMU notifiers, then checks on the read-once _pmd value to work out
what's needed for huge cases.  If change_pte_range() returns -EAGAIN to
retry if pte_offset_map_lock() fails, nothing more special is needed.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/725a42a9-91e9-c868-925-e3a5fd40bb4f@google.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Zack Rusin <zackr@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Background: It was reported that a bad pmd is seen when automatic NUMA
  balancing is marking page table entries as prot_numa:

      [2437548.196018] mm/pgtable-generic.c:50: bad pmd 00000000af22fc02(dffffffe71fbfe02)
      [2437548.235022] Call Trace:
      [2437548.238234]  <TASK>
      [2437548.241060]  dump_stack_lvl+0x46/0x61
      [2437548.245689]  panic+0x106/0x2e5
      [2437548.249497]  pmd_clear_bad+0x3c/0x3c
      [2437548.253967]  change_pmd_range.isra.0+0x34d/0x3a7
      [2437548.259537]  change_p4d_range+0x156/0x20e
      [2437548.264392]  change_protection_range+0x116/0x1a9
      [2437548.269976]  change_prot_numa+0x15/0x37
      [2437548.274774]  task_numa_work+0x1b8/0x302
      [2437548.279512]  task_work_run+0x62/0x95
      [2437548.283882]  exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x1a4/0x1a9
      [2437548.289277]  exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xf4/0xfc
      [2437548.294751]  ? sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x34/0x81
      [2437548.300677]  irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0x5/0x25
      [2437548.306153]  asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x1b

    This is due to a race condition between change_prot_numa() and
    THP migration because the kernel doesn't check is_swap_pmd() and
    pmd_trans_huge() atomically:

    change_prot_numa()                      THP migration
    ======================================================================
    - change_pmd_range()
    -> is_swap_pmd() returns false,
    meaning it's not a PMD migration
    entry.
                                      - do_huge_pmd_numa_page()
                                      -> migrate_misplaced_page() sets
                                         migration entries for the THP.
    - change_pmd_range()
    -> pmd_none_or_clear_bad_unless_trans_huge()
    -> pmd_none() and pmd_trans_huge() returns false
    - pmd_none_or_clear_bad_unless_trans_huge()
    -> pmd_bad() returns true for the migration entry!

  The upstream commit 670ddd8cdcbd ("mm/mprotect: delete
  pmd_none_or_clear_bad_unless_trans_huge()") closes this race condition
  by checking is_swap_pmd() and pmd_trans_huge() atomically.

  Backporting note:
    Unlike the mainline, pte_offset_map_lock() does not check if the pmd
    entry is a migration entry or a hugepage; acquires PTL unconditionally
    instead of returning failure. Therefore, it is necessary to keep the
    !is_swap_pmd() && !pmd_trans_huge() && !pmd_devmap() check before
    acquiring the PTL.

    After acquiring the lock, open-code the semantics of
    pte_offset_map_lock() in the mainline kernel; change_pte_range() fails
    if the pmd value has changed. This requires adding pmd_old parameter
    (pmd_t value that is read before calling the function) to
    change_pte_range(). ]

Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/mprotect.c

index 8216f4018ee75444c21849791652ba47c8dda825..f09229fbcf6c9f9502bf6ae6a8f16b6a103cc7a0 100644 (file)
@@ -73,10 +73,12 @@ static inline bool can_change_pte_writable(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 }
 
 static long change_pte_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
-               struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
-               unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot, unsigned long cp_flags)
+               struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd, pmd_t pmd_old,
+               unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot,
+               unsigned long cp_flags)
 {
        pte_t *pte, oldpte;
+       pmd_t _pmd;
        spinlock_t *ptl;
        long pages = 0;
        int target_node = NUMA_NO_NODE;
@@ -86,21 +88,15 @@ static long change_pte_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
 
        tlb_change_page_size(tlb, PAGE_SIZE);
 
-       /*
-        * Can be called with only the mmap_lock for reading by
-        * prot_numa so we must check the pmd isn't constantly
-        * changing from under us from pmd_none to pmd_trans_huge
-        * and/or the other way around.
-        */
-       if (pmd_trans_unstable(pmd))
-               return 0;
-
-       /*
-        * The pmd points to a regular pte so the pmd can't change
-        * from under us even if the mmap_lock is only hold for
-        * reading.
-        */
        pte = pte_offset_map_lock(vma->vm_mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
+       /* Make sure pmd didn't change after acquiring ptl */
+       _pmd = pmd_read_atomic(pmd);
+       /* See pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad for info on barrier */
+       barrier();
+       if (!pmd_same(pmd_old, _pmd)) {
+               pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
+               return -EAGAIN;
+       }
 
        /* Get target node for single threaded private VMAs */
        if (prot_numa && !(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) &&
@@ -288,31 +284,6 @@ static long change_pte_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
        return pages;
 }
 
-/*
- * Used when setting automatic NUMA hinting protection where it is
- * critical that a numa hinting PMD is not confused with a bad PMD.
- */
-static inline int pmd_none_or_clear_bad_unless_trans_huge(pmd_t *pmd)
-{
-       pmd_t pmdval = pmd_read_atomic(pmd);
-
-       /* See pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad for info on barrier */
-#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
-       barrier();
-#endif
-
-       if (pmd_none(pmdval))
-               return 1;
-       if (pmd_trans_huge(pmdval))
-               return 0;
-       if (unlikely(pmd_bad(pmdval))) {
-               pmd_clear_bad(pmd);
-               return 1;
-       }
-
-       return 0;
-}
-
 /* Return true if we're uffd wr-protecting file-backed memory, or false */
 static inline bool
 uffd_wp_protect_file(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long cp_flags)
@@ -360,22 +331,34 @@ static inline long change_pmd_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
 
        pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
        do {
-               long this_pages;
-
+               long ret;
+               pmd_t _pmd;
+again:
                next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
+               _pmd = pmd_read_atomic(pmd);
+               /* See pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad for info on barrier */
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+               barrier();
+#endif
 
                change_pmd_prepare(vma, pmd, cp_flags);
                /*
                 * Automatic NUMA balancing walks the tables with mmap_lock
                 * held for read. It's possible a parallel update to occur
-                * between pmd_trans_huge() and a pmd_none_or_clear_bad()
-                * check leading to a false positive and clearing.
-                * Hence, it's necessary to atomically read the PMD value
-                * for all the checks.
+                * between pmd_trans_huge(), is_swap_pmd(), and
+                * a pmd_none_or_clear_bad() check leading to a false positive
+                * and clearing. Hence, it's necessary to atomically read
+                * the PMD value for all the checks.
                 */
-               if (!is_swap_pmd(*pmd) && !pmd_devmap(*pmd) &&
-                    pmd_none_or_clear_bad_unless_trans_huge(pmd))
-                       goto next;
+               if (!is_swap_pmd(_pmd) && !pmd_devmap(_pmd) && !pmd_trans_huge(_pmd)) {
+                       if (pmd_none(_pmd))
+                               goto next;
+
+                       if (pmd_bad(_pmd)) {
+                               pmd_clear_bad(pmd);
+                               goto next;
+                       }
+               }
 
                /* invoke the mmu notifier if the pmd is populated */
                if (!range.start) {
@@ -385,7 +368,7 @@ static inline long change_pmd_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
                        mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(&range);
                }
 
-               if (is_swap_pmd(*pmd) || pmd_trans_huge(*pmd) || pmd_devmap(*pmd)) {
+               if (is_swap_pmd(_pmd) || pmd_trans_huge(_pmd) || pmd_devmap(_pmd)) {
                        if ((next - addr != HPAGE_PMD_SIZE) ||
                            uffd_wp_protect_file(vma, cp_flags)) {
                                __split_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr, false, NULL);
@@ -400,11 +383,11 @@ static inline long change_pmd_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
                                 * change_huge_pmd() does not defer TLB flushes,
                                 * so no need to propagate the tlb argument.
                                 */
-                               int nr_ptes = change_huge_pmd(tlb, vma, pmd,
-                                               addr, newprot, cp_flags);
+                               ret = change_huge_pmd(tlb, vma, pmd,
+                                                     addr, newprot, cp_flags);
 
-                               if (nr_ptes) {
-                                       if (nr_ptes == HPAGE_PMD_NR) {
+                               if (ret) {
+                                       if (ret == HPAGE_PMD_NR) {
                                                pages += HPAGE_PMD_NR;
                                                nr_huge_updates++;
                                        }
@@ -415,9 +398,11 @@ static inline long change_pmd_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
                        }
                        /* fall through, the trans huge pmd just split */
                }
-               this_pages = change_pte_range(tlb, vma, pmd, addr, next,
-                                             newprot, cp_flags);
-               pages += this_pages;
+               ret = change_pte_range(tlb, vma, pmd, _pmd, addr, next,
+                                      newprot, cp_flags);
+               if (ret < 0)
+                       goto again;
+               pages += ret;
 next:
                cond_resched();
        } while (pmd++, addr = next, addr != end);