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Patch series "migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page race conditions". Aaron found a new instance of the THP MADV_DONTNEED race against pmdp_clear_flush* variants, that was apparently left unfixed. While looking into the race found by Aaron, I may have found two more issues in migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page. These race conditions would not cause kernel instability, but they'd corrupt userland data or leave data non zero after MADV_DONTNEED. I did only minor testing, and I don't expect to be able to reproduce this (especially the lack of ->invalidate_range before migrate_page_copy, requires the latest iommu hardware or infiniband to reproduce). The last patch is noop for x86 and it needs further review from maintainers of archs that implement flush_cache_range() (not in CC yet). To avoid confusion, it's not the first patch that introduces the bug fixed in the second patch, even before removing the pmdp_huge_clear_flush_notify, that _notify suffix was called after migrate_page_copy already run. This patch (of 3): This is a corollary ofced108037c("thp: fix MADV_DONTNEED vs. numa balancing race"),58ceeb6bec("thp: fix MADV_DONTNEED vs. MADV_FREE race") and5b7abeae3a("thp: fix MADV_DONTNEED vs clear soft dirty race). When the above three fixes where posted Dave asked https://lkml.kernel.org/r/929b3844-aec2-0111-fef7-8002f9d4e2b9@intel.com but apparently this was missed. The pmdp_clear_flush* in migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page() was introduced ina54a407fbf("mm: Close races between THP migration and PMD numa clearing"). The important part of such commit is only the part where the page lock is not released until the first do_huge_pmd_numa_page() finished disarming the pagenuma/protnone. The addition of pmdp_clear_flush() wasn't beneficial to such commit and there's no commentary about such an addition either. I guess the pmdp_clear_flush() in such commit was added just in case for safety, but it ended up introducing the MADV_DONTNEED race condition found by Aaron. At that point in time nobody thought of such kind of MADV_DONTNEED race conditions yet (they were fixed later) so the code may have looked more robust by adding the pmdp_clear_flush(). This specific race condition won't destabilize the kernel, but it can confuse userland because after MADV_DONTNEED the memory won't be zeroed out. This also optimizes the code and removes a superfluous TLB flush. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: reflow comment to 80 cols, fix grammar and typo (beacuse)] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181013002430.698-2-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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