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| H A D | hugetlb.c | 48b8d744 Wed Jun 30 20:48:31 CDT 2021 Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> hugetlb: remove prep_compound_huge_page cleanup
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>
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