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authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>2013-12-18 17:08:44 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-12-18 19:04:51 -0800
commit20841405940e7be0617612d521e206e4b6b325db (patch)
treeff60aa7674876d90e25db4046d9916f73680682b /mm
parentde466bd628e8d663fdf3f791bc8db318ee85c714 (diff)
mm: fix TLB flush race between migration, and change_protection_range
There are a few subtle races, between change_protection_range (used by mprotect and change_prot_numa) on one side, and NUMA page migration and compaction on the other side. The basic race is that there is a time window between when the PTE gets made non-present (PROT_NONE or NUMA), and the TLB is flushed. During that time, a CPU may continue writing to the page. This is fine most of the time, however compaction or the NUMA migration code may come in, and migrate the page away. When that happens, the CPU may continue writing, through the cached translation, to what is no longer the current memory location of the process. This only affects x86, which has a somewhat optimistic pte_accessible. All other architectures appear to be safe, and will either always flush, or flush whenever there is a valid mapping, even with no permissions (SPARC). The basic race looks like this: CPU A CPU B CPU C load TLB entry make entry PTE/PMD_NUMA fault on entry read/write old page start migrating page change PTE/PMD to new page read/write old page [*] flush TLB reload TLB from new entry read/write new page lose data [*] the old page may belong to a new user at this point! The obvious fix is to flush remote TLB entries, by making sure that pte_accessible aware of the fact that PROT_NONE and PROT_NUMA memory may still be accessible if there is a TLB flush pending for the mm. This should fix both NUMA migration and compaction. [mgorman@suse.de: fix build] Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/huge_memory.c7
-rw-r--r--mm/mprotect.c2
-rw-r--r--mm/pgtable-generic.c5
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 7de1bf85f683..3d2783e10596 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1377,6 +1377,13 @@ int do_huge_pmd_numa_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
}
/*
+ * The page_table_lock above provides a memory barrier
+ * with change_protection_range.
+ */
+ if (mm_tlb_flush_pending(mm))
+ flush_tlb_range(vma, haddr, haddr + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
+
+ /*
* Migrate the THP to the requested node, returns with page unlocked
* and pmd_numa cleared.
*/
diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c
index f8421722acb9..bb53a6591aea 100644
--- a/mm/mprotect.c
+++ b/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -188,6 +188,7 @@ static unsigned long change_protection_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
BUG_ON(addr >= end);
pgd = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
flush_cache_range(vma, addr, end);
+ set_tlb_flush_pending(mm);
do {
next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
if (pgd_none_or_clear_bad(pgd))
@@ -199,6 +200,7 @@ static unsigned long change_protection_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
/* Only flush the TLB if we actually modified any entries: */
if (pages)
flush_tlb_range(vma, start, end);
+ clear_tlb_flush_pending(mm);
return pages;
}
diff --git a/mm/pgtable-generic.c b/mm/pgtable-generic.c
index e84cad27a801..a8b919925934 100644
--- a/mm/pgtable-generic.c
+++ b/mm/pgtable-generic.c
@@ -110,9 +110,10 @@ int pmdp_clear_flush_young(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
pte_t ptep_clear_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
pte_t *ptep)
{
+ struct mm_struct *mm = (vma)->vm_mm;
pte_t pte;
- pte = ptep_get_and_clear((vma)->vm_mm, address, ptep);
- if (pte_accessible(pte))
+ pte = ptep_get_and_clear(mm, address, ptep);
+ if (pte_accessible(mm, pte))
flush_tlb_page(vma, address);
return pte;
}