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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Missing READ_ONCE in core and arch-specific pgtable code leading to crashes
[+ Timur]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 03:38:00PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> On 09/27/2017 11:49 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
>
> > The moral of the story is that read-after-read (same address) ordering *only*
> > applies if READ_ONCE is used consistently. This means we need to fix page
> > table dereferences in the core code as well as the arch code to avoid this
> > problem. The two RFC patches in this series fix arm64 (which is a bigger fix
> > that necessary since I clean things up too) and page_vma_mapped_walk.
> >
> > Comments welcome.
>
> Thanks for this Will. I'll echo Timur's comment that it would be ideal
> to split this up into the critical piece needed for ordering
> access/update to the PMD in the face of a THP split and separately have
> the cosmetic cleanups. Needless to say, we've got a bunch of people who
> are tracking this one and tracking it ready for backport. We just got
> THP re-enabled so I'm pretty keen that we not have to disable again.

Yeah, of course. I already posted a point diff to Yury in the original
thread:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2017-September/533299.html

so I'd like to queue that as an arm64 fix after we've worked out the general
direction of the full fix. I also don't see why other architectures
(including x86) can't be hit by this, so an alternative (completely
untested) approach would just be to take patch 2 of this series.

The full fix isn't just cosmetic; it's also addressing the wider problem
of unannotated racing page table accesses outside of the specific failure
case we've run into.

Will

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