Re: [PATCH] mm/khugepaged: Fix invalid page access in release_pte_pages()

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On 2/13/23 23:56, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
On 13.02.2023 22:43, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote:
release_pte_pages() converts from a pfn to a folio by using pfn_folio().
If the pte is not mapped, pfn_folio() will result in undefined behavior
which ends up causing a kernel panic[1].

Only call pfn_folio() once we have validated that the pte is both valid
and mapped to fix the issue.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/ff300770-afe9-908d-23ed-d23e0796e899@xxxxxxxxxxx/

Fixes: 9bdfeea46f49 ("mm/khugepaged: convert release_pte_pages() to use folios")
Reported-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Debugged-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>


Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

Alex



---
   mm/khugepaged.c | 14 ++++++++++----
   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index b39ab219d5b7..bd54b957f69a 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -511,11 +511,17 @@ static void release_pte_pages(pte_t *pte, pte_t *_pte,
while (--_pte >= pte) {
   		pte_t pteval = *_pte;
+		unsigned long pfn;
- folio = pfn_folio(pte_pfn(pteval));
-		if (!pte_none(pteval) && !is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pteval)) &&
-				!folio_test_large(folio))
-			release_pte_folio(folio);
+		if (pte_none(pteval))
+			continue;
+		pfn = pte_pfn(pteval);
+		if (is_zero_pfn(pfn))
+			continue;
+		folio = pfn_folio(pfn);
+		if (folio_test_large(folio))
+			continue;
+		release_pte_folio(folio);
   	}
list_for_each_entry_safe(folio, tmp, compound_pagelist, lru) {
Best regards




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