On 24.08.22 05:03, Alistair Popple wrote: > When clearing a PTE the TLB should be flushed whilst still holding the > PTL to avoid a potential race with madvise/munmap/etc. For example > consider the following sequence: > > CPU0 CPU1 > ---- ---- > > migrate_vma_collect_pmd() > pte_unmap_unlock() > madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) > -> zap_pte_range() > pte_offset_map_lock() > [ PTE not present, TLB not flushed ] > pte_unmap_unlock() > [ page is still accessible via stale TLB ] > flush_tlb_range() > > In this case the page may still be accessed via the stale TLB entry > after madvise returns. Fix this by flushing the TLB while holding the > PTL. > > Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reported-by: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@xxxxxxxxx> > Fixes: 8c3328f1f36a ("mm/migrate: migrate_vma() unmap page from vma while collecting pages") > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > --- > > Changes for v3: > > - New for v3 > --- > mm/migrate_device.c | 5 +++-- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mm/migrate_device.c b/mm/migrate_device.c > index 27fb37d..6a5ef9f 100644 > --- a/mm/migrate_device.c > +++ b/mm/migrate_device.c > @@ -254,13 +254,14 @@ static int migrate_vma_collect_pmd(pmd_t *pmdp, > migrate->dst[migrate->npages] = 0; > migrate->src[migrate->npages++] = mpfn; > } > - arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode(); > - pte_unmap_unlock(ptep - 1, ptl); > > /* Only flush the TLB if we actually modified any entries */ > if (unmapped) > flush_tlb_range(walk->vma, start, end); > > + arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode(); > + pte_unmap_unlock(ptep - 1, ptl); > + > return 0; > } > > > base-commit: ffcf9c5700e49c0aee42dcba9a12ba21338e8136 I'm not a TLB-flushing expert, but this matches my understanding (and a TLB flushing Linux documentation I stumbled over some while ago but cannot quickly find). In the ordinary try_to_migrate_one() path, flushing would happen via ptep_clear_flush() (just like we do for the anon_exclusive case here as well), correct? -- Thanks, David / dhildenb