tree a37bffb609116bf8b5cf59e7b5634ea43a3d2496
parent 081056dc00a27bccb55ccc3c6f230a3d5fd3f7e0
author Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> 1748381034 +0200
committer Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 1749186144 -0700

mm/hugetlb: fix huge_pmd_unshare() vs GUP-fast race

huge_pmd_unshare() drops a reference on a page table that may have
previously been shared across processes, potentially turning it into a
normal page table used in another process in which unrelated VMAs can
afterwards be installed.

If this happens in the middle of a concurrent gup_fast(), gup_fast() could
end up walking the page tables of another process.  While I don't see any
way in which that immediately leads to kernel memory corruption, it is
really weird and unexpected.

Fix it with an explicit broadcast IPI through tlb_remove_table_sync_one(),
just like we do in khugepaged when removing page tables for a THP
collapse.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250528-hugetlb-fixes-splitrace-v2-2-1329349bad1a@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250527-hugetlb-fixes-splitrace-v1-2-f4136f5ec58a@google.com
Fixes: 39dde65c9940 ("[PATCH] shared page table for hugetlb page")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>