mm-madv_collapse-catch-none-huge-bad-pmd-lookups.patch removed from -mm tree

The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm/MADV_COLLAPSE: catch !none !huge !bad pmd lookups
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-madv_collapse-catch-none-huge-bad-pmd-lookups.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: "Zach O'Keefe" <[email protected]>
Subject: mm/MADV_COLLAPSE: catch !none !huge !bad pmd lookups
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 14:53:58 -0800

In commit 34488399fa08 ("mm/madvise: add file and shmem support to MADV_COLLAPSE") we make the following change to find_pmd_or_thp_or_none():

- if (!pmd_present(pmde))
- return SCAN_PMD_NULL;
+ if (pmd_none(pmde))
+ return SCAN_PMD_NONE;

This was for-use by MADV_COLLAPSE file/shmem codepaths, where MADV_COLLAPSE might identify a pte-mapped hugepage, only to have khugepaged race-in, free the pte table, and clear the pmd. Such codepaths include:

A) If we find a suitably-aligned compound page of order HPAGE_PMD_ORDER already in the pagecache.
B) In retract_page_tables(), if we fail to grab mmap_lock for the target mm/address.

In these cases, collapse_pte_mapped_thp() really does expect a none (not just !present) pmd, and we want to suitably identify that case separate from the case where no pmd is found, or it's a bad-pmd (of course, many things could happen once we drop mmap_lock, and the pmd could plausibly undergo multiple transitions due to intervening fault, split, etc). Regardless, the code is prepared install a huge-pmd only when the existing pmd entry is either a genuine pte-table-mapping-pmd, or the none-pmd.

However, the commit introduces a logical hole; namely, that we've allowed !none- && !huge- && !bad-pmds to be classified as genuine pte-table-mapping-pmds. One such example that could leak through are swap entries. The pmd values aren't checked again before use in pte_offset_map_lock(), which is expecting nothing less than a genuine pte-table-mapping-pmd.

We want to put back the !pmd_present() check (below the pmd_none() check), but need to be careful to deal with subtleties in pmd transitions and treatments by various arch.

The issue is that __split_huge_pmd_locked() temporarily clears the present bit (or otherwise marks the entry as invalid), but pmd_present() and pmd_trans_huge() still need to return true while the pmd is in this transitory state. For example, x86's pmd_present() also checks the _PAGE_PSE , riscv's version also checks the _PAGE_LEAF bit, and arm64 also checks a PMD_PRESENT_INVALID bit.

Covering all 4 cases for x86 (all checks done on the same pmd value):

1) pmd_present() && pmd_trans_huge()
All we actually know here is that the PSE bit is set. Either:
a) We aren't racing with __split_huge_page(), and PRESENT or PROTNONE

      is set.
      => huge-pmd

b) We are currently racing with __split_huge_page(). The danger here is that we proceed as-if we have a huge-pmd, but really we are looking at a pte-mapping-pmd. So, what is the risk of this danger?

The only relevant path is:

madvise_collapse() -> collapse_pte_mapped_thp()

Where we might just incorrectly report back "success", when really the memory isn't pmd-backed. This is fine, since split could happen immediately after (actually) successful madvise_collapse(). So, it should be safe to just assume huge-pmd here.

2) pmd_present() && !pmd_trans_huge()
Either:
a) PSE not set and either PRESENT or PROTNONE is.
=> pte-table-mapping pmd (or PROT_NONE)
b) devmap. This routine can be called immediately after unlocking/locking mmap_lock -- or called with no locks held (see khugepaged_scan_mm_slot()), so previous VMA checks have since been invalidated.

3) !pmd_present() && pmd_trans_huge()
Not possible.

4) !pmd_present() && !pmd_trans_huge()
Neither PRESENT nor PROTNONE set
=> not present

I've checked all archs that implement pmd_trans_huge() (arm64, riscv, powerpc, longarch, x86, mips, s390) and this logic roughly translates (though devmap treatment is unique to x86 and powerpc, and (3) doesn't necessarily hold in general -- but that doesn't matter since !pmd_present() always takes failure path).

Also, add a comment above find_pmd_or_thp_or_none() to help future travelers reason about the validity of the code; namely, the possible mutations that might happen out from under us, depending on how mmap_lock is held (if at all).

---

 mm/khugepaged.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

@@ -847,6 +847,10 @@ static int hugepage_vma_revalidate(struc
 	return SCAN_SUCCEED;
 }
 
+/*
+ * See pmd_trans_unstable() for how the result may change out from
+ * underneath us, even if we hold mmap_lock in read.
+ */
 static int find_pmd_or_thp_or_none(struct mm_struct *mm,
 				   unsigned long address,
 				   pmd_t **pmd)

@@ -865,8 +869,12 @@ static int find_pmd_or_thp_or_none(struc
 #endif
 	if (pmd_none(pmde))
 		return SCAN_PMD_NONE;
+	if (!pmd_present(pmde))
+		return SCAN_PMD_NULL;
 	if (pmd_trans_huge(pmde))
 		return SCAN_PMD_MAPPED;
+	if (pmd_devmap(pmde))
+		return SCAN_PMD_NULL;
 	if (pmd_bad(pmde))
 		return SCAN_PMD_NULL;
 	return SCAN_SUCCEED;

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