Kirill A. Shutemov
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Both MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE handled with down_read(mmap_sem). It's critical to not clear pmd intermittently while handling MADV_FREE to avoid race with MADV_DONTNEED: CPU0: CPU1: madvise_free_huge_pmd() pmdp_huge_get_and_clear_full() madvise_dontneed() zap_pmd_range() pmd_trans_huge(*pmd) == 0 (without ptl) // skip the pmd set_pmd_at(); // pmd is re-established It results in MADV_DONTNEED skipping the pmd, leaving it not cleared. It violates MADV_DONTNEED interface and can result is userspace misbehaviour. Basically it's the same race as with numa balancing in change_huge_pmd(), but a bit simpler to mitigate: we don't need to preserve dirty/young flags here due to MADV_FREE functionality. [kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com: Urgh... Power is special again] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170303102636.bhd2zhtpds4mt62a@black.fi.intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170302151034.27829-4-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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