mm: numa: recheck for transhuge pages under lock during protection changes

Sasha reported the following bug using trinity

  kernel BUG at mm/mprotect.c:149!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
  Dumping ftrace buffer:
     (ftrace buffer empty)
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 20 PID: 26219 Comm: trinity-c216 Tainted: G        W    3.14.0-rc5-next-20140305-sasha-00011-ge06f5f3-dirty #105
  task: ffff8800b6c80000 ti: ffff880228436000 task.ti: ffff880228436000
  RIP: change_protection_range+0x3b3/0x500
  Call Trace:
    change_protection+0x25/0x30
    change_prot_numa+0x1b/0x30
    task_numa_work+0x279/0x360
    task_work_run+0xae/0xf0
    do_notify_resume+0x8e/0xe0
    retint_signal+0x4d/0x92

The VM_BUG_ON was added in -mm by the patch "mm,numa: reorganize
change_pmd_range".  The race existed without the patch but was just
harder to hit.

The problem is that a transhuge check is made without holding the PTL.
It's possible at the time of the check that a parallel fault clears the
pmd and inserts a new one which then triggers the VM_BUG_ON check.  This
patch removes the VM_BUG_ON but fixes the race by rechecking transhuge
under the PTL when marking page tables for NUMA hinting and bailing if a
race occurred.  It is not a problem for calls to mprotect() as they hold
mmap_sem for write.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c
index 79cb51866e0..2c51c79c8a6 100644
--- a/mm/mprotect.c
+++ b/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -36,6 +36,34 @@ static inline pgprot_t pgprot_modify(pgprot_t oldprot, pgprot_t newprot)
 }
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * For a prot_numa update we only hold mmap_sem for read so there is a
+ * potential race with faulting where a pmd was temporarily none. This
+ * function checks for a transhuge pmd under the appropriate lock. It
+ * returns a pte if it was successfully locked or NULL if it raced with
+ * a transhuge insertion.
+ */
+static pte_t *lock_pte_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
+			unsigned long addr, int prot_numa, spinlock_t **ptl)
+{
+	pte_t *pte;
+	spinlock_t *pmdl;
+
+	/* !prot_numa is protected by mmap_sem held for write */
+	if (!prot_numa)
+		return pte_offset_map_lock(vma->vm_mm, pmd, addr, ptl);
+
+	pmdl = pmd_lock(vma->vm_mm, pmd);
+	if (unlikely(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd) || pmd_none(*pmd))) {
+		spin_unlock(pmdl);
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	pte = pte_offset_map_lock(vma->vm_mm, pmd, addr, ptl);
+	spin_unlock(pmdl);
+	return pte;
+}
+
 static unsigned long change_pte_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
 		unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot,
 		int dirty_accountable, int prot_numa)
@@ -45,7 +73,10 @@ static unsigned long change_pte_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
 	spinlock_t *ptl;
 	unsigned long pages = 0;
 
-	pte = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
+	pte = lock_pte_protection(vma, pmd, addr, prot_numa, &ptl);
+	if (!pte)
+		return 0;
+
 	arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode();
 	do {
 		oldpte = *pte;
@@ -132,12 +163,13 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 						pages += HPAGE_PMD_NR;
 						nr_huge_updates++;
 					}
+
+					/* huge pmd was handled */
 					continue;
 				}
 			}
 			/* fall through, the trans huge pmd just split */
 		}
-		VM_BUG_ON(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd));
 		this_pages = change_pte_range(vma, pmd, addr, next, newprot,
 				 dirty_accountable, prot_numa);
 		pages += this_pages;