The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm,madvise,hugetlb: check for 0-length range after end address adjustment
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mmmadvisehugetlb-check-for-0-length-range-after-end-address-adjustment.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Ricardo Cañuelo Navarro <rcn@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm,madvise,hugetlb: check for 0-length range after end address adjustment
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2025 08:52:06 +0100
Add a sanity check to madvise_dontneed_free() to address a corner case in
madvise where a race condition causes the current vma being processed to
be backed by a different page size.
During a madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) call on a memory region registered with a
userfaultfd, there's a period of time where the process mm lock is
temporarily released in order to send a UFFD_EVENT_REMOVE and let
userspace handle the event. During this time, the vma covering the
current address range may change due to an explicit mmap done concurrently
by another thread.
If, after that change, the memory region, which was originally backed by
4KB pages, is now backed by hugepages, the end address is rounded down to
a hugepage boundary to avoid data loss (see "Fixes" below). This rounding
may cause the end address to be truncated to the same address as the
start.
Make this corner case follow the same semantics as in other similar cases
where the requested region has zero length (ie. return 0).
This will make madvise_walk_vmas() continue to the next vma in the range
(this time holding the process mm lock) which, due to the prev pointer
becoming stale because of the vma change, will be the same hugepage-backed
vma that was just checked before. The next time madvise_dontneed_free()
runs for this vma, if the start address isn't aligned to a hugepage
boundary, it'll return -EINVAL, which is also in line with the madvise
api.
