FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/hugetlb: fix huge_pmd_unshare() vs GUP-fast race" failed to apply to 5.4-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.4.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 1013af4f585fccc4d3e5c5824d174de2257f7d6d
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2025062056-decree-conduit-b901@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.4.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 1013af4f585fccc4d3e5c5824d174de2257f7d6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2025 23:23:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: fix huge_pmd_unshare() vs GUP-fast race

huge_pmd_unshare() drops a reference on a page table that may have previously been shared across processes, potentially turning it into a normal page table used in another process in which unrelated VMAs can afterwards be installed.

If this happens in the middle of a concurrent gup_fast(), gup_fast() could end up walking the page tables of another process. While I don't see any way in which that immediately leads to kernel memory corruption, it is really weird and unexpected.

Fix it with an explicit broadcast IPI through tlb_remove_table_sync_one(), just like we do in khugepaged when removing page tables for a THP collapse.

index 7ba020d489d4..8746ed2fec13 100644
@@ -7629,6 +7629,13 @@ int huge_pmd_unshare(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		return 0;
 
 	pud_clear(pud);
+	/*
+	 * Once our caller drops the rmap lock, some other process might be
+	 * using this page table as a normal, non-hugetlb page table.
+	 * Wait for pending gup_fast() in other threads to finish before letting
+	 * that happen.
+	 */
+	tlb_remove_table_sync_one();
 	ptdesc_pmd_pts_dec(virt_to_ptdesc(ptep));
 	mm_dec_nr_pmds(mm);
 	return 1;