Message ID | 20230701010442.2041858-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com (mailing list archive) |
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State | New |
Headers | show |
Series | [v2] mm/hugetlb.c: fix a bug within a BUG(): inconsistent pte comparison | expand |
On 01/07/2023 02:04, John Hubbard wrote: > The following crash happens for me when running the -mm selftests > (below). Specifically, it happens while running the uffd-stress > subtests: > > kernel BUG at mm/hugetlb.c:7249! > invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI > CPU: 0 PID: 3238 Comm: uffd-stress Not tainted 6.4.0-hubbard-github+ #109 > Hardware name: ASUS X299-A/PRIME X299-A, BIOS 1503 08/03/2018 > RIP: 0010:huge_pte_alloc+0x12c/0x1a0 > ... > Call Trace: > <TASK> > ? __die_body+0x63/0xb0 > ? die+0x9f/0xc0 > ? do_trap+0xab/0x180 > ? huge_pte_alloc+0x12c/0x1a0 > ? do_error_trap+0xc6/0x110 > ? huge_pte_alloc+0x12c/0x1a0 > ? handle_invalid_op+0x2c/0x40 > ? huge_pte_alloc+0x12c/0x1a0 > ? exc_invalid_op+0x33/0x50 > ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20 > ? __pfx_put_prev_task_idle+0x10/0x10 > ? huge_pte_alloc+0x12c/0x1a0 > hugetlb_fault+0x1a3/0x1120 > ? finish_task_switch+0xb3/0x2a0 > ? lock_is_held_type+0xdb/0x150 > handle_mm_fault+0xb8a/0xd40 > ? find_vma+0x5d/0xa0 > do_user_addr_fault+0x257/0x5d0 > exc_page_fault+0x7b/0x1f0 > asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 > > That happens because a BUG() statement in huge_pte_alloc() attempts to > check that a pte, if present, is a hugetlb pte, but it does so in a > non-lockless-safe manner that leads to a false BUG() report. > > We got here due to a couple of bugs, each of which by itself was not > quite enough to cause a problem: > > First of all, before commit c33c794828f2("mm: ptep_get() conversion"), > the BUG() statement in huge_pte_alloc() was itself fragile: it relied > upon compiler behavior to only read the pte once, despite using it twice > in the same conditional. > > Next, commit c33c794828f2 ("mm: ptep_get() conversion") broke that > delicate situation, by causing all direct pte reads to be done via > READ_ONCE(). And so READ_ONCE() got called twice within the same BUG() > conditional, leading to comparing (potentially, occasionally) different > versions of the pte, and thus to false BUG() reports. > > Fix this by taking a single snapshot of the pte before using it in the > BUG conditional. > > Now, that commit is only partially to blame here but, people doing > bisections will invariably land there, so this will help them find a fix > for a real crash. And also, the previous behavior was unlikely to ever > expose this bug--it was fragile, yet not actually broken. > > So that's why I chose this commit for the Fixes tag, rather than the > commit that created the original BUG() statement. > > Fixes: c33c794828f2 ("mm: ptep_get() conversion") > Acked-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com> > Acked-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> > Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> > Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> > Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> > Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> > Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> > Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> > Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> > Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> > Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> > Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> > Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <dimitri.sivanich@hpe.com> > Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> > Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> > Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> > Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> > Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> > Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> > Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> > Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> > Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> > Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> > Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> > Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> > Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> > Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> > Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> > Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com> > Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> > Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> > Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> > Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> > Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> > Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> > Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> > Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> > Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> > --- > > Changes since v1: > > Added Acked-by's. > > Fixed as per Ryan Roberts (thanks!): changed to ptep_get_lockless(). > > > mm/hugetlb.c | 7 ++++++- > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c > index bce28cca73a1..64a3239b6407 100644 > --- a/mm/hugetlb.c > +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c > @@ -7246,7 +7246,12 @@ pte_t *huge_pte_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, > pte = (pte_t *)pmd_alloc(mm, pud, addr); > } > } > - BUG_ON(pte && pte_present(ptep_get(pte)) && !pte_huge(ptep_get(pte))); > + > + if (pte) { > + pte_t pteval = ptep_get_lockless(pte); > + > + BUG_ON(pte_present(pteval) && !pte_huge(pteval)); > + } > > return pte; > } > > base-commit: bf1fa6f15553df04f2bdd06190ccd5f388ab0777
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index bce28cca73a1..64a3239b6407 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -7246,7 +7246,12 @@ pte_t *huge_pte_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, pte = (pte_t *)pmd_alloc(mm, pud, addr); } } - BUG_ON(pte && pte_present(ptep_get(pte)) && !pte_huge(ptep_get(pte))); + + if (pte) { + pte_t pteval = ptep_get_lockless(pte); + + BUG_ON(pte_present(pteval) && !pte_huge(pteval)); + } return pte; }