In move_pages_pte(), we may modify the dst_pte and src_pte after acquiring the ptl, so convert it to using pte_offset_map_rw_nolock(). But since we already do the pte_same() check, there is no need to get pmdval to do pmd_same() check, just pass a dummy variable to it. Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/userfaultfd.c | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c index 6ef42d9cd482e..414ee744257b7 100644 --- a/mm/userfaultfd.c +++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c @@ -1135,7 +1135,7 @@ static int move_pages_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *dst_pmd, pmd_t *src_pmd, spinlock_t *src_ptl, *dst_ptl; pte_t *src_pte = NULL; pte_t *dst_pte = NULL; - + pmd_t dummy_pmdval; struct folio *src_folio = NULL; struct anon_vma *src_anon_vma = NULL; struct mmu_notifier_range range; @@ -1146,7 +1146,14 @@ static int move_pages_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *dst_pmd, pmd_t *src_pmd, src_addr, src_addr + PAGE_SIZE); mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(&range); retry: - dst_pte = pte_offset_map_nolock(mm, dst_pmd, dst_addr, &dst_ptl); + /* + * Use the maywrite version to indicate that dst_pte will be modified, + * but since we will use pte_same() to detect the change of the pte + * entry, there is no need to get pmdval, so just pass a dummy variable + * to it. + */ + dst_pte = pte_offset_map_rw_nolock(mm, dst_pmd, dst_addr, &dummy_pmdval, + &dst_ptl); /* Retry if a huge pmd materialized from under us */ if (unlikely(!dst_pte)) { @@ -1154,7 +1161,9 @@ static int move_pages_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *dst_pmd, pmd_t *src_pmd, goto out; } - src_pte = pte_offset_map_nolock(mm, src_pmd, src_addr, &src_ptl); + /* same as dst_pte */ + src_pte = pte_offset_map_rw_nolock(mm, src_pmd, src_addr, &dummy_pmdval, + &src_ptl); /* * We held the mmap_lock for reading so MADV_DONTNEED -- 2.20.1