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> Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 8c3328f1f36a ("mm/migrate: migrate_vma() unmap page from vma while collecting pages") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- Changes for v4: - Added Review-by 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 -- git-series 0.9.1