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<title>mm/userfaultfd: do not access vma-&gt;vm_mm after calling handle_userfault()</title>
<updated>2020-11-22T18:48:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gerald Schaefer</name>
<email>gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com</email>
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<published>2020-11-22T06:17:15+00:00</published>
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Alexander reported a syzkaller / KASAN finding on s390, see below for
complete output.

In do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page(), the pre-allocated pagetable will be
freed in some cases.  In the case of userfaultfd_missing(), this will
happen after calling handle_userfault(), which might have released the
mmap_lock.  Therefore, the following pte_free(vma-&gt;vm_mm, pgtable) will
access an unstable vma-&gt;vm_mm, which could have been freed or re-used
already.

For all architectures other than s390 this will go w/o any negative
impact, because pte_free() simply frees the page and ignores the
passed-in mm.  The implementation for SPARC32 would also access
mm-&gt;page_table_lock for pte_free(), but there is no THP support in
SPARC32, so the buggy code path will not be used there.

For s390, the mm-&gt;context.pgtable_list is being used to maintain the 2K
pagetable fragments, and operating on an already freed or even re-used
mm could result in various more or less subtle bugs due to list /
pagetable corruption.

Fix this by calling pte_free() before handle_userfault(), similar to how
it is already done in __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page() for the WRITE /
non-huge_zero_page case.

Commit 6b251fc96cf2c ("userfaultfd: call handle_userfault() for
userfaultfd_missing() faults") actually introduced both, the
do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page() and also __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page()
changes wrt to calling handle_userfault(), but only in the latter case
it put the pte_free() before calling handle_userfault().

  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page+0xcda/0xd90 mm/huge_memory.c:744
  Read of size 8 at addr 00000000962d6988 by task syz-executor.0/9334

  CPU: 1 PID: 9334 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 5.10.0-rc1-syzkaller-07083-g4c9720875573 #0
  Hardware name: IBM 3906 M04 701 (KVM/Linux)
  Call Trace:
    do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page+0xcda/0xd90 mm/huge_memory.c:744
    create_huge_pmd mm/memory.c:4256 [inline]
    __handle_mm_fault+0xe6e/0x1068 mm/memory.c:4480
    handle_mm_fault+0x288/0x748 mm/memory.c:4607
    do_exception+0x394/0xae0 arch/s390/mm/fault.c:479
    do_dat_exception+0x34/0x80 arch/s390/mm/fault.c:567
    pgm_check_handler+0x1da/0x22c arch/s390/kernel/entry.S:706
    copy_from_user_mvcos arch/s390/lib/uaccess.c:111 [inline]
    raw_copy_from_user+0x3a/0x88 arch/s390/lib/uaccess.c:174
    _copy_from_user+0x48/0xa8 lib/usercopy.c:16
    copy_from_user include/linux/uaccess.h:192 [inline]
    __do_sys_sigaltstack kernel/signal.c:4064 [inline]
    __s390x_sys_sigaltstack+0xc8/0x240 kernel/signal.c:4060
    system_call+0xe0/0x28c arch/s390/kernel/entry.S:415

  Allocated by task 9334:
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:2891 [inline]
    slab_alloc mm/slub.c:2899 [inline]
    kmem_cache_alloc+0x118/0x348 mm/slub.c:2904
    vm_area_dup+0x9c/0x2b8 kernel/fork.c:356
    __split_vma+0xba/0x560 mm/mmap.c:2742
    split_vma+0xca/0x108 mm/mmap.c:2800
    mlock_fixup+0x4ae/0x600 mm/mlock.c:550
    apply_vma_lock_flags+0x2c6/0x398 mm/mlock.c:619
    do_mlock+0x1aa/0x718 mm/mlock.c:711
    __do_sys_mlock2 mm/mlock.c:738 [inline]
    __s390x_sys_mlock2+0x86/0xa8 mm/mlock.c:728
    system_call+0xe0/0x28c arch/s390/kernel/entry.S:415

  Freed by task 9333:
    slab_free mm/slub.c:3142 [inline]
    kmem_cache_free+0x7c/0x4b8 mm/slub.c:3158
    __vma_adjust+0x7b2/0x2508 mm/mmap.c:960
    vma_merge+0x87e/0xce0 mm/mmap.c:1209
    userfaultfd_release+0x412/0x6b8 fs/userfaultfd.c:868
    __fput+0x22c/0x7a8 fs/file_table.c:281
    task_work_run+0x200/0x320 kernel/task_work.c:151
    tracehook_notify_resume include/linux/tracehook.h:188 [inline]
    do_notify_resume+0x100/0x148 arch/s390/kernel/signal.c:538
    system_call+0xe6/0x28c arch/s390/kernel/entry.S:416

  The buggy address belongs to the object at 00000000962d6948 which belongs to the cache vm_area_struct of size 200
  The buggy address is located 64 bytes inside of 200-byte region [00000000962d6948, 00000000962d6a10)
  The buggy address belongs to the page: page:00000000313a09fe refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x962d6 flags: 0x3ffff00000000200(slab)
  raw: 3ffff00000000200 000040000257e080 0000000c0000000c 000000008020ba00
  raw: 0000000000000000 000f001e00000000 ffffffff00000001 0000000096959501
  page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
  page-&gt;mem_cgroup:0000000096959501

  Memory state around the buggy address:
   00000000962d6880: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
   00000000962d6900: 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb fb fb fb
  &gt;00000000962d6980: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                        ^
   00000000962d6a00: fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc 00 00 00 00 00 00
   00000000962d6a80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  ==================================================================

Fixes: 6b251fc96cf2c ("userfaultfd: call handle_userfault() for userfaultfd_missing() faults")
Reported-by: Alexander Egorenkov &lt;egorenar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[4.3+]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201110190329.11920-1-gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Alexander reported a syzkaller / KASAN finding on s390, see below for
complete output.

In do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page(), the pre-allocated pagetable will be
freed in some cases.  In the case of userfaultfd_missing(), this will
happen after calling handle_userfault(), which might have released the
mmap_lock.  Therefore, the following pte_free(vma-&gt;vm_mm, pgtable) will
access an unstable vma-&gt;vm_mm, which could have been freed or re-used
already.

For all architectures other than s390 this will go w/o any negative
impact, because pte_free() simply frees the page and ignores the
passed-in mm.  The implementation for SPARC32 would also access
mm-&gt;page_table_lock for pte_free(), but there is no THP support in
SPARC32, so the buggy code path will not be used there.

For s390, the mm-&gt;context.pgtable_list is being used to maintain the 2K
pagetable fragments, and operating on an already freed or even re-used
mm could result in various more or less subtle bugs due to list /
pagetable corruption.

Fix this by calling pte_free() before handle_userfault(), similar to how
it is already done in __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page() for the WRITE /
non-huge_zero_page case.

Commit 6b251fc96cf2c ("userfaultfd: call handle_userfault() for
userfaultfd_missing() faults") actually introduced both, the
do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page() and also __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page()
changes wrt to calling handle_userfault(), but only in the latter case
it put the pte_free() before calling handle_userfault().

  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page+0xcda/0xd90 mm/huge_memory.c:744
  Read of size 8 at addr 00000000962d6988 by task syz-executor.0/9334

  CPU: 1 PID: 9334 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 5.10.0-rc1-syzkaller-07083-g4c9720875573 #0
  Hardware name: IBM 3906 M04 701 (KVM/Linux)
  Call Trace:
    do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page+0xcda/0xd90 mm/huge_memory.c:744
    create_huge_pmd mm/memory.c:4256 [inline]
    __handle_mm_fault+0xe6e/0x1068 mm/memory.c:4480
    handle_mm_fault+0x288/0x748 mm/memory.c:4607
    do_exception+0x394/0xae0 arch/s390/mm/fault.c:479
    do_dat_exception+0x34/0x80 arch/s390/mm/fault.c:567
    pgm_check_handler+0x1da/0x22c arch/s390/kernel/entry.S:706
    copy_from_user_mvcos arch/s390/lib/uaccess.c:111 [inline]
    raw_copy_from_user+0x3a/0x88 arch/s390/lib/uaccess.c:174
    _copy_from_user+0x48/0xa8 lib/usercopy.c:16
    copy_from_user include/linux/uaccess.h:192 [inline]
    __do_sys_sigaltstack kernel/signal.c:4064 [inline]
    __s390x_sys_sigaltstack+0xc8/0x240 kernel/signal.c:4060
    system_call+0xe0/0x28c arch/s390/kernel/entry.S:415

  Allocated by task 9334:
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:2891 [inline]
    slab_alloc mm/slub.c:2899 [inline]
    kmem_cache_alloc+0x118/0x348 mm/slub.c:2904
    vm_area_dup+0x9c/0x2b8 kernel/fork.c:356
    __split_vma+0xba/0x560 mm/mmap.c:2742
    split_vma+0xca/0x108 mm/mmap.c:2800
    mlock_fixup+0x4ae/0x600 mm/mlock.c:550
    apply_vma_lock_flags+0x2c6/0x398 mm/mlock.c:619
    do_mlock+0x1aa/0x718 mm/mlock.c:711
    __do_sys_mlock2 mm/mlock.c:738 [inline]
    __s390x_sys_mlock2+0x86/0xa8 mm/mlock.c:728
    system_call+0xe0/0x28c arch/s390/kernel/entry.S:415

  Freed by task 9333:
    slab_free mm/slub.c:3142 [inline]
    kmem_cache_free+0x7c/0x4b8 mm/slub.c:3158
    __vma_adjust+0x7b2/0x2508 mm/mmap.c:960
    vma_merge+0x87e/0xce0 mm/mmap.c:1209
    userfaultfd_release+0x412/0x6b8 fs/userfaultfd.c:868
    __fput+0x22c/0x7a8 fs/file_table.c:281
    task_work_run+0x200/0x320 kernel/task_work.c:151
    tracehook_notify_resume include/linux/tracehook.h:188 [inline]
    do_notify_resume+0x100/0x148 arch/s390/kernel/signal.c:538
    system_call+0xe6/0x28c arch/s390/kernel/entry.S:416

  The buggy address belongs to the object at 00000000962d6948 which belongs to the cache vm_area_struct of size 200
  The buggy address is located 64 bytes inside of 200-byte region [00000000962d6948, 00000000962d6a10)
  The buggy address belongs to the page: page:00000000313a09fe refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x962d6 flags: 0x3ffff00000000200(slab)
  raw: 3ffff00000000200 000040000257e080 0000000c0000000c 000000008020ba00
  raw: 0000000000000000 000f001e00000000 ffffffff00000001 0000000096959501
  page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
  page-&gt;mem_cgroup:0000000096959501

  Memory state around the buggy address:
   00000000962d6880: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
   00000000962d6900: 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb fb fb fb
  &gt;00000000962d6980: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                        ^
   00000000962d6a00: fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc 00 00 00 00 00 00
   00000000962d6a80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  ==================================================================

Fixes: 6b251fc96cf2c ("userfaultfd: call handle_userfault() for userfaultfd_missing() faults")
Reported-by: Alexander Egorenkov &lt;egorenar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[4.3+]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201110190329.11920-1-gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: fix a race during THP splitting</title>
<updated>2020-10-16T18:11:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huang Ying</name>
<email>ying.huang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-16T03:06:07+00:00</published>
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It is reported that the following bug is triggered if the HDD is used as
swap device,

[ 5758.157556] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000007
[ 5758.165331] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
[ 5758.171161] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
[ 5758.176894] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 5758.179721] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP PTI
[ 5758.183614] CPU: 10 PID: 316 Comm: kswapd1 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G S               --------- ---  5.9.0-0.rc3.1.tst.el8.x86_64 #1
[ 5758.196717] Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600CP/S2600CP, BIOS SE5C600.86B.02.01.0002.082220131453 08/22/2013
[ 5758.208176] RIP: 0010:split_swap_cluster+0x47/0x60
[ 5758.213522] Code: c1 e3 06 48 c1 eb 0f 48 8d 1c d8 48 89 df e8 d0 20 6a 00 80 63 07 fb 48 85 db 74 16 48 89 df c6 07 00 66 66 66 90 31 c0 5b c3 &lt;80&gt; 24 25 07 00 00 00 fb 31 c0 5b c3 b8 f0 ff ff ff 5b c3 66 0f 1f
[ 5758.234478] RSP: 0018:ffffb147442d7af0 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 5758.240309] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000000014b217 RCX: ffffb14779fd9000
[ 5758.248281] RDX: 000000000014b217 RSI: ffff9c52f2ab1400 RDI: 000000000014b217
[ 5758.256246] RBP: ffffe00c51168080 R08: ffffe00c5116fe08 R09: ffff9c52fffd3000
[ 5758.264208] R10: ffffe00c511537c8 R11: ffff9c52fffd3c90 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 5758.272172] R13: ffffe00c51170000 R14: ffffe00c51170000 R15: ffffe00c51168040
[ 5758.280134] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9c52f2a80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 5758.289163] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 5758.295575] CR2: 0000000000000007 CR3: 0000000022a0e003 CR4: 00000000000606e0
[ 5758.303538] Call Trace:
[ 5758.306273]  split_huge_page_to_list+0x88b/0x950
[ 5758.311433]  deferred_split_scan+0x1ca/0x310
[ 5758.316202]  do_shrink_slab+0x12c/0x2a0
[ 5758.320491]  shrink_slab+0x20f/0x2c0
[ 5758.324482]  shrink_node+0x240/0x6c0
[ 5758.328469]  balance_pgdat+0x2d1/0x550
[ 5758.332652]  kswapd+0x201/0x3c0
[ 5758.336157]  ? finish_wait+0x80/0x80
[ 5758.340147]  ? balance_pgdat+0x550/0x550
[ 5758.344525]  kthread+0x114/0x130
[ 5758.348126]  ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80
[ 5758.352214]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[ 5758.356203] Modules linked in: fuse zram rfkill sunrpc intel_rapl_msr intel_rapl_common sb_edac x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp coretemp mgag200 iTCO_wdt crct10dif_pclmul iTCO_vendor_support drm_kms_helper crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops cec rapl joydev intel_cstate ipmi_si ipmi_devintf drm intel_uncore i2c_i801 ipmi_msghandler pcspkr lpc_ich mei_me i2c_smbus mei ioatdma ip_tables xfs libcrc32c sr_mod sd_mod cdrom t10_pi sg igb ahci libahci i2c_algo_bit crc32c_intel libata dca wmi dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod
[ 5758.412673] CR2: 0000000000000007
[    0.000000] Linux version 5.9.0-0.rc3.1.tst.el8.x86_64 (mockbuild@x86-vm-15.build.eng.bos.redhat.com) (gcc (GCC) 8.3.1 20191121 (Red Hat 8.3.1-5), GNU ld version 2.30-79.el8) #1 SMP Wed Sep 9 16:03:34 EDT 2020

After further digging it's found that the following race condition exists in the
original implementation,

CPU1                                                             CPU2
----                                                             ----
deferred_split_scan()
  split_huge_page(page) /* page isn't compound head */
    split_huge_page_to_list(page, NULL)
      __split_huge_page(page, )
        ClearPageCompound(head)
        /* unlock all subpages except page (not head) */
                                                                 add_to_swap(head)  /* not THP */
                                                                   get_swap_page(head)
                                                                   add_to_swap_cache(head, )
                                                                     SetPageSwapCache(head)
     if PageSwapCache(head)
       split_swap_cluster(/* swap entry of head */)
         /* Deref sis-&gt;cluster_info: NULL accessing! */

So, in split_huge_page_to_list(), PageSwapCache() is called for the already
split and unlocked "head", which may be added to swap cache in another CPU.  So
split_swap_cluster() may be called wrongly.

To fix the race, the call to split_swap_cluster() is moved to
__split_huge_page() before all subpages are unlocked.  So that the
PageSwapCache() is stable.

Fixes: 59807685a7e77 ("mm, THP, swap: support splitting THP for THP swap out")
Reported-by: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Tested-by: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201009073647.1531083-1-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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It is reported that the following bug is triggered if the HDD is used as
swap device,

[ 5758.157556] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000007
[ 5758.165331] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
[ 5758.171161] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
[ 5758.176894] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 5758.179721] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP PTI
[ 5758.183614] CPU: 10 PID: 316 Comm: kswapd1 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G S               --------- ---  5.9.0-0.rc3.1.tst.el8.x86_64 #1
[ 5758.196717] Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600CP/S2600CP, BIOS SE5C600.86B.02.01.0002.082220131453 08/22/2013
[ 5758.208176] RIP: 0010:split_swap_cluster+0x47/0x60
[ 5758.213522] Code: c1 e3 06 48 c1 eb 0f 48 8d 1c d8 48 89 df e8 d0 20 6a 00 80 63 07 fb 48 85 db 74 16 48 89 df c6 07 00 66 66 66 90 31 c0 5b c3 &lt;80&gt; 24 25 07 00 00 00 fb 31 c0 5b c3 b8 f0 ff ff ff 5b c3 66 0f 1f
[ 5758.234478] RSP: 0018:ffffb147442d7af0 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 5758.240309] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000000014b217 RCX: ffffb14779fd9000
[ 5758.248281] RDX: 000000000014b217 RSI: ffff9c52f2ab1400 RDI: 000000000014b217
[ 5758.256246] RBP: ffffe00c51168080 R08: ffffe00c5116fe08 R09: ffff9c52fffd3000
[ 5758.264208] R10: ffffe00c511537c8 R11: ffff9c52fffd3c90 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 5758.272172] R13: ffffe00c51170000 R14: ffffe00c51170000 R15: ffffe00c51168040
[ 5758.280134] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9c52f2a80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 5758.289163] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 5758.295575] CR2: 0000000000000007 CR3: 0000000022a0e003 CR4: 00000000000606e0
[ 5758.303538] Call Trace:
[ 5758.306273]  split_huge_page_to_list+0x88b/0x950
[ 5758.311433]  deferred_split_scan+0x1ca/0x310
[ 5758.316202]  do_shrink_slab+0x12c/0x2a0
[ 5758.320491]  shrink_slab+0x20f/0x2c0
[ 5758.324482]  shrink_node+0x240/0x6c0
[ 5758.328469]  balance_pgdat+0x2d1/0x550
[ 5758.332652]  kswapd+0x201/0x3c0
[ 5758.336157]  ? finish_wait+0x80/0x80
[ 5758.340147]  ? balance_pgdat+0x550/0x550
[ 5758.344525]  kthread+0x114/0x130
[ 5758.348126]  ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80
[ 5758.352214]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
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[ 5758.412673] CR2: 0000000000000007
[    0.000000] Linux version 5.9.0-0.rc3.1.tst.el8.x86_64 (mockbuild@x86-vm-15.build.eng.bos.redhat.com) (gcc (GCC) 8.3.1 20191121 (Red Hat 8.3.1-5), GNU ld version 2.30-79.el8) #1 SMP Wed Sep 9 16:03:34 EDT 2020

After further digging it's found that the following race condition exists in the
original implementation,

CPU1                                                             CPU2
----                                                             ----
deferred_split_scan()
  split_huge_page(page) /* page isn't compound head */
    split_huge_page_to_list(page, NULL)
      __split_huge_page(page, )
        ClearPageCompound(head)
        /* unlock all subpages except page (not head) */
                                                                 add_to_swap(head)  /* not THP */
                                                                   get_swap_page(head)
                                                                   add_to_swap_cache(head, )
                                                                     SetPageSwapCache(head)
     if PageSwapCache(head)
       split_swap_cluster(/* swap entry of head */)
         /* Deref sis-&gt;cluster_info: NULL accessing! */

So, in split_huge_page_to_list(), PageSwapCache() is called for the already
split and unlocked "head", which may be added to swap cache in another CPU.  So
split_swap_cluster() may be called wrongly.

To fix the race, the call to split_swap_cluster() is moved to
__split_huge_page() before all subpages are unlocked.  So that the
PageSwapCache() is stable.

Fixes: 59807685a7e77 ("mm, THP, swap: support splitting THP for THP swap out")
Reported-by: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Tested-by: Rafael Aquini &lt;aquini@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201009073647.1531083-1-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/huge_memory: fix can_split_huge_page assumption of THP size</title>
<updated>2020-10-16T18:11:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-16T03:05:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e2333dad2d4a3543f07beb5da61401046e54f2ff'/>
<id>e2333dad2d4a3543f07beb5da61401046e54f2ff</id>
<content type='text'>
Ask the page how many subpages it has instead of assuming it's PMD size.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park &lt;sjpark@amazon.de&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200908195539.25896-8-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Ask the page how many subpages it has instead of assuming it's PMD size.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park &lt;sjpark@amazon.de&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Huang, Ying" &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200908195539.25896-8-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/huge_memory: fix page_trans_huge_mapcount assumption of THP size</title>
<updated>2020-10-16T18:11:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-16T03:05:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=65dfe3c3bc411caa04c4f6c7d81418b90d6a2ce8'/>
<id>65dfe3c3bc411caa04c4f6c7d81418b90d6a2ce8</id>
<content type='text'>
Ask the page what size it is instead of assuming it's PMD size.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park &lt;sjpark@amazon.de&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200908195539.25896-7-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
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Ask the page what size it is instead of assuming it's PMD size.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park &lt;sjpark@amazon.de&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200908195539.25896-7-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/huge_memory: fix split assumption of page size</title>
<updated>2020-10-16T18:11:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill@shutemov.name</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-16T03:05:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8cce54756806e5777069c46011c5f54f9feac717'/>
<id>8cce54756806e5777069c46011c5f54f9feac717</id>
<content type='text'>
File THPs may now be of arbitrary size, and we can't rely on that size
after doing the split so remember the number of pages before we start the
split.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park &lt;sjpark@amazon.de&gt;
Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200908195539.25896-6-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
File THPs may now be of arbitrary size, and we can't rely on that size
after doing the split so remember the number of pages before we start the
split.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park &lt;sjpark@amazon.de&gt;
Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200908195539.25896-6-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/huge_memory: fix total_mapcount assumption of page size</title>
<updated>2020-10-16T18:11:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill@shutemov.name</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-16T03:05:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=86b562b629728a072e6928bdc02a105d358a007d'/>
<id>86b562b629728a072e6928bdc02a105d358a007d</id>
<content type='text'>
File THPs may now be of arbitrary order.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park &lt;sjpark@amazon.de&gt;
Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200908195539.25896-5-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
File THPs may now be of arbitrary order.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park &lt;sjpark@amazon.de&gt;
Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200908195539.25896-5-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/page_owner: change split_page_owner to take a count</title>
<updated>2020-10-16T18:11:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-16T03:05:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8fb156c9ee2db94f7127c930c89917634a1a9f56'/>
<id>8fb156c9ee2db94f7127c930c89917634a1a9f56</id>
<content type='text'>
The implementation of split_page_owner() prefers a count rather than the
old order of the page.  When we support a variable size THP, we won't
have the order at this point, but we will have the number of pages.
So change the interface to what the caller and callee would prefer.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park &lt;sjpark@amazon.de&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200908195539.25896-4-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The implementation of split_page_owner() prefers a count rather than the
old order of the page.  When we support a variable size THP, we won't
have the order at this point, but we will have the number of pages.
So change the interface to what the caller and callee would prefer.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park &lt;sjpark@amazon.de&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200908195539.25896-4-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/mmap: leave adjust_next as virtual address instead of page frame number</title>
<updated>2020-10-14T01:38:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wei Yang</name>
<email>richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-13T23:53:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f9d86a60572295ebb53c87a4305dc89b487711bd'/>
<id>f9d86a60572295ebb53c87a4305dc89b487711bd</id>
<content type='text'>
Instead of converting adjust_next between bytes and pages number, let's
just store the virtual address into adjust_next.

Also, this patch fixes one typo in the comment of vma_adjust_trans_huge().

[vbabka@suse.cz: changelog tweak]

Signed-off-by: Wei Yang &lt;richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200828081031.11306-1-richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Instead of converting adjust_next between bytes and pages number, let's
just store the virtual address into adjust_next.

Also, this patch fixes one typo in the comment of vma_adjust_trans_huge().

[vbabka@suse.cz: changelog tweak]

Signed-off-by: Wei Yang &lt;richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200828081031.11306-1-richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2020-10-12T17:00:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-12T17:00:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6734e20e39207556e17d72b5c4950d8f3a4f2de2'/>
<id>6734e20e39207556e17d72b5c4950d8f3a4f2de2</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "There's quite a lot of code here, but much of it is due to the
  addition of a new PMU driver as well as some arm64-specific selftests
  which is an area where we've traditionally been lagging a bit.

  In terms of exciting features, this includes support for the Memory
  Tagging Extension which narrowly missed 5.9, hopefully allowing
  userspace to run with use-after-free detection in production on CPUs
  that support it. Work is ongoing to integrate the feature with KASAN
  for 5.11.

  Another change that I'm excited about (assuming they get the hardware
  right) is preparing the ASID allocator for sharing the CPU page-table
  with the SMMU. Those changes will also come in via Joerg with the
  IOMMU pull.

  We do stray outside of our usual directories in a few places, mostly
  due to core changes required by MTE. Although much of this has been
  Acked, there were a couple of places where we unfortunately didn't get
  any review feedback.

  Other than that, we ran into a handful of minor conflicts in -next,
  but nothing that should post any issues.

  Summary:

   - Userspace support for the Memory Tagging Extension introduced by
     Armv8.5. Kernel support (via KASAN) is likely to follow in 5.11.

   - Selftests for MTE, Pointer Authentication and FPSIMD/SVE context
     switching.

   - Fix and subsequent rewrite of our Spectre mitigations, including
     the addition of support for PR_SPEC_DISABLE_NOEXEC.

   - Support for the Armv8.3 Pointer Authentication enhancements.

   - Support for ASID pinning, which is required when sharing
     page-tables with the SMMU.

   - MM updates, including treating flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault() as a
     no-op.

   - Perf/PMU driver updates, including addition of the ARM CMN PMU
     driver and also support to handle CPU PMU IRQs as NMIs.

   - Allow prefetchable PCI BARs to be exposed to userspace using normal
     non-cacheable mappings.

   - Implementation of ARCH_STACKWALK for unwinding.

   - Improve reporting of unexpected kernel traps due to BPF JIT
     failure.

   - Improve robustness of user-visible HWCAP strings and their
     corresponding numerical constants.

   - Removal of TEXT_OFFSET.

   - Removal of some unused functions, parameters and prototypes.

   - Removal of MPIDR-based topology detection in favour of firmware
     description.

   - Cleanups to handling of SVE and FPSIMD register state in
     preparation for potential future optimisation of handling across
     syscalls.

   - Cleanups to the SDEI driver in preparation for support in KVM.

   - Miscellaneous cleanups and refactoring work"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (148 commits)
  Revert "arm64: initialize per-cpu offsets earlier"
  arm64: random: Remove no longer needed prototypes
  arm64: initialize per-cpu offsets earlier
  kselftest/arm64: Check mte tagged user address in kernel
  kselftest/arm64: Verify KSM page merge for MTE pages
  kselftest/arm64: Verify all different mmap MTE options
  kselftest/arm64: Check forked child mte memory accessibility
  kselftest/arm64: Verify mte tag inclusion via prctl
  kselftest/arm64: Add utilities and a test to validate mte memory
  perf: arm-cmn: Fix conversion specifiers for node type
  perf: arm-cmn: Fix unsigned comparison to less than zero
  arm64: dbm: Invalidate local TLB when setting TCR_EL1.HD
  arm64: mm: Make flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault() a no-op
  arm64: Add support for PR_SPEC_DISABLE_NOEXEC prctl() option
  arm64: Pull in task_stack_page() to Spectre-v4 mitigation code
  KVM: arm64: Allow patching EL2 vectors even with KASLR is not enabled
  arm64: Get rid of arm64_ssbd_state
  KVM: arm64: Convert ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 to arm64_get_spectre_v4_state()
  KVM: arm64: Get rid of kvm_arm_have_ssbd()
  KVM: arm64: Simplify handling of ARCH_WORKAROUND_2
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
 "There's quite a lot of code here, but much of it is due to the
  addition of a new PMU driver as well as some arm64-specific selftests
  which is an area where we've traditionally been lagging a bit.

  In terms of exciting features, this includes support for the Memory
  Tagging Extension which narrowly missed 5.9, hopefully allowing
  userspace to run with use-after-free detection in production on CPUs
  that support it. Work is ongoing to integrate the feature with KASAN
  for 5.11.

  Another change that I'm excited about (assuming they get the hardware
  right) is preparing the ASID allocator for sharing the CPU page-table
  with the SMMU. Those changes will also come in via Joerg with the
  IOMMU pull.

  We do stray outside of our usual directories in a few places, mostly
  due to core changes required by MTE. Although much of this has been
  Acked, there were a couple of places where we unfortunately didn't get
  any review feedback.

  Other than that, we ran into a handful of minor conflicts in -next,
  but nothing that should post any issues.

  Summary:

   - Userspace support for the Memory Tagging Extension introduced by
     Armv8.5. Kernel support (via KASAN) is likely to follow in 5.11.

   - Selftests for MTE, Pointer Authentication and FPSIMD/SVE context
     switching.

   - Fix and subsequent rewrite of our Spectre mitigations, including
     the addition of support for PR_SPEC_DISABLE_NOEXEC.

   - Support for the Armv8.3 Pointer Authentication enhancements.

   - Support for ASID pinning, which is required when sharing
     page-tables with the SMMU.

   - MM updates, including treating flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault() as a
     no-op.

   - Perf/PMU driver updates, including addition of the ARM CMN PMU
     driver and also support to handle CPU PMU IRQs as NMIs.

   - Allow prefetchable PCI BARs to be exposed to userspace using normal
     non-cacheable mappings.

   - Implementation of ARCH_STACKWALK for unwinding.

   - Improve reporting of unexpected kernel traps due to BPF JIT
     failure.

   - Improve robustness of user-visible HWCAP strings and their
     corresponding numerical constants.

   - Removal of TEXT_OFFSET.

   - Removal of some unused functions, parameters and prototypes.

   - Removal of MPIDR-based topology detection in favour of firmware
     description.

   - Cleanups to handling of SVE and FPSIMD register state in
     preparation for potential future optimisation of handling across
     syscalls.

   - Cleanups to the SDEI driver in preparation for support in KVM.

   - Miscellaneous cleanups and refactoring work"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (148 commits)
  Revert "arm64: initialize per-cpu offsets earlier"
  arm64: random: Remove no longer needed prototypes
  arm64: initialize per-cpu offsets earlier
  kselftest/arm64: Check mte tagged user address in kernel
  kselftest/arm64: Verify KSM page merge for MTE pages
  kselftest/arm64: Verify all different mmap MTE options
  kselftest/arm64: Check forked child mte memory accessibility
  kselftest/arm64: Verify mte tag inclusion via prctl
  kselftest/arm64: Add utilities and a test to validate mte memory
  perf: arm-cmn: Fix conversion specifiers for node type
  perf: arm-cmn: Fix unsigned comparison to less than zero
  arm64: dbm: Invalidate local TLB when setting TCR_EL1.HD
  arm64: mm: Make flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault() a no-op
  arm64: Add support for PR_SPEC_DISABLE_NOEXEC prctl() option
  arm64: Pull in task_stack_page() to Spectre-v4 mitigation code
  KVM: arm64: Allow patching EL2 vectors even with KASLR is not enabled
  arm64: Get rid of arm64_ssbd_state
  KVM: arm64: Convert ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 to arm64_get_spectre_v4_state()
  KVM: arm64: Get rid of kvm_arm_have_ssbd()
  KVM: arm64: Simplify handling of ARCH_WORKAROUND_2
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<title>mm/thp: Split huge pmds/puds if they're pinned when fork()</title>
<updated>2020-09-27T18:21:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Xu</name>
<email>peterx@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-25T22:26:00+00:00</published>
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Pinned pages shouldn't be write-protected when fork() happens, because
follow up copy-on-write on these pages could cause the pinned pages to
be replaced by random newly allocated pages.

For huge PMDs, we split the huge pmd if pinning is detected.  So that
future handling will be done by the PTE level (with our latest changes,
each of the small pages will be copied).  We can achieve this by let
copy_huge_pmd() return -EAGAIN for pinned pages, so that we'll
fallthrough in copy_pmd_range() and finally land the next
copy_pte_range() call.

Huge PUDs will be even more special - so far it does not support
anonymous pages.  But it can actually be done the same as the huge PMDs
even if the split huge PUDs means to erase the PUD entries.  It'll
guarantee the follow up fault ins will remap the same pages in either
parent/child later.

This might not be the most efficient way, but it should be easy and
clean enough.  It should be fine, since we're tackling with a very rare
case just to make sure userspaces that pinned some thps will still work
even without MADV_DONTFORK and after they fork()ed.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Pinned pages shouldn't be write-protected when fork() happens, because
follow up copy-on-write on these pages could cause the pinned pages to
be replaced by random newly allocated pages.

For huge PMDs, we split the huge pmd if pinning is detected.  So that
future handling will be done by the PTE level (with our latest changes,
each of the small pages will be copied).  We can achieve this by let
copy_huge_pmd() return -EAGAIN for pinned pages, so that we'll
fallthrough in copy_pmd_range() and finally land the next
copy_pte_range() call.

Huge PUDs will be even more special - so far it does not support
anonymous pages.  But it can actually be done the same as the huge PMDs
even if the split huge PUDs means to erase the PUD entries.  It'll
guarantee the follow up fault ins will remap the same pages in either
parent/child later.

This might not be the most efficient way, but it should be easy and
clean enough.  It should be fine, since we're tackling with a very rare
case just to make sure userspaces that pinned some thps will still work
even without MADV_DONTFORK and after they fork()ed.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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