mm: thp: fix SMP race condition between THP page fault and MADV_DONTNEED

[ Upstream commit ad33bb0 ]

pmd_trans_unstable()/pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() were
introduced to locklessy (but atomically) detect when a pmd is a regular
(stable) pmd or when the pmd is unstable and can infinitely transition
from pmd_none() and pmd_trans_huge() from under us, while only holding
the mmap_sem for reading (for writing not).

While holding the mmap_sem only for reading, MADV_DONTNEED can run from
under us and so before we can assume the pmd to be a regular stable pmd
we need to compare it against pmd_none() and pmd_trans_huge() in an
atomic way, with pmd_trans_unstable().  The old pmd_trans_huge() left a
tiny window for a race.

Useful applications are unlikely to notice the difference as doing
MADV_DONTNEED concurrently with a page fault would lead to undefined
behavior.

[[email protected]: tidy up comment grammar/layout]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>

mm/memory.c

@@ -3327,8 +3327,18 @@ static int __handle_mm_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	if (unlikely(pmd_none(*pmd)) &&
 	    unlikely(__pte_alloc(mm, vma, pmd, address)))
 		return VM_FAULT_OOM;
-	/* if an huge pmd materialized from under us just retry later */
-	if (unlikely(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)))
+	/*
+	 * If a huge pmd materialized under us just retry later.  Use
+	 * pmd_trans_unstable() instead of pmd_trans_huge() to ensure the pmd
+	 * didn't become pmd_trans_huge under us and then back to pmd_none, as
+	 * a result of MADV_DONTNEED running immediately after a huge pmd fault
+	 * in a different thread of this mm, in turn leading to a misleading
+	 * pmd_trans_huge() retval.  All we have to ensure is that it is a
+	 * regular pmd that we can walk with pte_offset_map() and we can do that
+	 * through an atomic read in C, which is what pmd_trans_unstable()
+	 * provides.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(pmd_trans_unstable(pmd)))
 		return 0;
 	/*
 	 * A regular pmd is established and it can't morph into a huge pmd