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authorJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>2023-07-01 03:04:42 +0200
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-07-08 18:29:29 +0200
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mm/hugetlb.c: fix a bug within a BUG(): inconsistent pte comparison
The following crash happens for me when running the -mm selftests (below). Specifically, it happens while running the uffd-stress subtests: kernel BUG at mm/hugetlb.c:7249! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI CPU: 0 PID: 3238 Comm: uffd-stress Not tainted 6.4.0-hubbard-github+ #109 Hardware name: ASUS X299-A/PRIME X299-A, BIOS 1503 08/03/2018 RIP: 0010:huge_pte_alloc+0x12c/0x1a0 ... Call Trace: <TASK> ? __die_body+0x63/0xb0 ? die+0x9f/0xc0 ? do_trap+0xab/0x180 ? huge_pte_alloc+0x12c/0x1a0 ? do_error_trap+0xc6/0x110 ? huge_pte_alloc+0x12c/0x1a0 ? handle_invalid_op+0x2c/0x40 ? huge_pte_alloc+0x12c/0x1a0 ? exc_invalid_op+0x33/0x50 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20 ? __pfx_put_prev_task_idle+0x10/0x10 ? huge_pte_alloc+0x12c/0x1a0 hugetlb_fault+0x1a3/0x1120 ? finish_task_switch+0xb3/0x2a0 ? lock_is_held_type+0xdb/0x150 handle_mm_fault+0xb8a/0xd40 ? find_vma+0x5d/0xa0 do_user_addr_fault+0x257/0x5d0 exc_page_fault+0x7b/0x1f0 asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 That happens because a BUG() statement in huge_pte_alloc() attempts to check that a pte, if present, is a hugetlb pte, but it does so in a non-lockless-safe manner that leads to a false BUG() report. We got here due to a couple of bugs, each of which by itself was not quite enough to cause a problem: First of all, before commit c33c794828f2("mm: ptep_get() conversion"), the BUG() statement in huge_pte_alloc() was itself fragile: it relied upon compiler behavior to only read the pte once, despite using it twice in the same conditional. Next, commit c33c794828f2 ("mm: ptep_get() conversion") broke that delicate situation, by causing all direct pte reads to be done via READ_ONCE(). And so READ_ONCE() got called twice within the same BUG() conditional, leading to comparing (potentially, occasionally) different versions of the pte, and thus to false BUG() reports. Fix this by taking a single snapshot of the pte before using it in the BUG conditional. Now, that commit is only partially to blame here but, people doing bisections will invariably land there, so this will help them find a fix for a real crash. And also, the previous behavior was unlikely to ever expose this bug--it was fragile, yet not actually broken. So that's why I chose this commit for the Fixes tag, rather than the commit that created the original BUG() statement. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230701010442.2041858-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com Fixes: c33c794828f2 ("mm: ptep_get() conversion") Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Acked-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com> Acked-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Acked-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <dimitri.sivanich@hpe.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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