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mm/hugetlb: pmd_huge() returns true for non-present hugepage
Migrating hugepages and hwpoisoned hugepages are considered as non-present hugepages, and they are referenced via migration entries and hwpoison entries in their page table slots. This behavior causes race condition because pmd_huge() doesn't tell non-huge pages from migrating/hwpoisoned hugepages. follow_page_mask() is one example where the kernel would call follow_page_pte() for such hugepage while this function is supposed to handle only normal pages. To avoid this, this patch makes pmd_huge() return true when pmd_none() is true *and* pmd_present() is false. We don't have to worry about mixing up non-present pmd entry with normal pmd (pointing to leaf level pte entry) because pmd_present() is true in normal pmd. The same race condition could happen in (x86-specific) gup_pmd_range(), where this patch simply adds pmd_present() check instead of pmd_huge(). This is because gup_pmd_range() is fast path. If we have non-present hugepage in this function, we will go into gup_huge_pmd(), then return 0 at flag mask check, and finally fall back to the slow path. Fixes: 290408d ("hugetlb: hugepage migration core") Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]> Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> Cc: James Hogan <[email protected]> Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <[email protected]> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <[email protected]> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <[email protected]> Cc: Steve Capper <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> [2.6.36+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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