Re: [PATCH] mm/mremap: Fix move_normal_pmd/retract_page_tables race

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On 08.10.24 09:58, Qi Zheng wrote:


On 2024/10/8 15:52, David Hildenbrand wrote:
On 08.10.24 05:53, Qi Zheng wrote:
Hi Jann,

On 2024/10/8 05:42, Jann Horn wrote:

[...]


diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
index 24712f8dbb6b..dda09e957a5d 100644
--- a/mm/mremap.c
+++ b/mm/mremap.c
@@ -238,6 +238,7 @@ static bool move_normal_pmd(struct vm_area_struct
*vma, unsigned long old_addr,
    {
        spinlock_t *old_ptl, *new_ptl;
        struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
+    bool res = false;
        pmd_t pmd;
        if (!arch_supports_page_table_move())
@@ -277,19 +278,25 @@ static bool move_normal_pmd(struct
vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long old_addr,
        if (new_ptl != old_ptl)
            spin_lock_nested(new_ptl, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
-    /* Clear the pmd */
        pmd = *old_pmd;
+
+    /* Racing with collapse? */
+    if (unlikely(!pmd_present(pmd) || pmd_leaf(pmd)))

Since we already hold the exclusive mmap lock, after a racing
with collapse occurs, the pmd entry cannot be refilled with
new content by page fault. So maybe we only need to recheck
pmd_none(pmd) here?

My thinking was that it is cheap and more future proof to check that we
really still have a page table here. For example, what if collapse code
is ever changed to replace the page table by the collapsed PMD?

Ah, make sense.

Acked-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks a lot for your review!

--
Cheers,

David / dhildenb





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