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hugetlb: remove prep_compound_huge_page cleanup
authorMike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Thu, 1 Jul 2021 01:48:31 +0000 (18:48 -0700)
committerStefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Fri, 13 Aug 2021 07:31:37 +0000 (09:31 +0200)
commitac53030280cfa35f27a91fef03003bf585f2fbde
tree87d3f7d9bc3b6886f306e3c9728987c8efc7b7c7
parent17ee70c051459775874326d147ec05a7795ad1f0
hugetlb: remove prep_compound_huge_page cleanup

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1938340
[ Upstream commit 48b8d744ea841b8adf8d07bfe7a2d55f22e4d179 ]

Patch series "Fix prep_compound_gigantic_page ref count adjustment".

These patches address the possible race between
prep_compound_gigantic_page and __page_cache_add_speculative as described
by Jann Horn in [1].

The first patch simply removes the unnecessary/obsolete helper routine
prep_compound_huge_page to make the actual fix a little simpler.

The second patch is the actual fix and has a detailed explanation in the
commit message.

This potential issue has existed for almost 10 years and I am unaware of
anyone actually hitting the race.  I did not cc stable, but would be happy
to squash the patches and send to stable if anyone thinks that is a good
idea.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAG48ez23q0Jy9cuVnwAe7t_fdhMk2S7N5Hdi-GLcCeq5bsfLxw@mail.gmail.com/

This patch (of 2):

I could not think of a reliable way to recreate the issue for testing.
Rather, I 'simulated errors' to exercise all the error paths.

The routine prep_compound_huge_page is a simple wrapper to call either
prep_compound_gigantic_page or prep_compound_page.  However, it is only
called from gather_bootmem_prealloc which only processes gigantic pages.
Eliminate the routine and call prep_compound_gigantic_page directly.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210622021423.154662-1-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210622021423.154662-2-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
mm/hugetlb.c