Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Nov 2023 19:18:33 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: fix oops when filemap_map_pmd() without prealloc_pte | From | David Hildenbrand <> |
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On 17.11.23 09:49, Hugh Dickins wrote: > syzbot reports oops in lockdep's __lock_acquire(), called from > __pte_offset_map_lock() called from filemap_map_pages(); or when I run > the repro, the oops comes in pmd_install(), called from filemap_map_pmd() > called from filemap_map_pages(), just before the __pte_offset_map_lock(). > > The problem is that filemap_map_pmd() has been assuming that when it > finds pmd_none(), a page table has already been prepared in prealloc_pte; > and indeed do_fault_around() has been careful to preallocate one there, > when it finds pmd_none(): but what if *pmd became none in between? > > My 6.6 mods in mm/khugepaged.c, avoiding mmap_lock for write, have made > it easy for *pmd to be cleared while servicing a page fault; but even > before those, a huge *pmd might be zapped while a fault is serviced. > > The difference in symptomatic stack traces comes from the "memory model" > in use: pmd_install() uses pmd_populate() uses page_to_pfn(): in some > models that is strict, and will oops on the NULL prealloc_pte; in other > models, it will construct a bogus value to be populated into *pmd, then > __pte_offset_map_lock() oops when trying to access split ptlock pointer > (or some other symptom in normal case of ptlock embedded not pointer). > > Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+89edd67979b52675ddec@syzkaller.appspotmail.com > Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/0000000000005e44550608a0806c@google.com/ > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20231115065506.19780-1-jose.pekkarinen@foxhound.fi/ > Fixes: f9ce0be71d1f ("mm: Cleanup faultaround and finish_fault() codepaths")
Quite an old one
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
-- Cheers,
David / dhildenb
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