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Date:   Fri, 2 Sep 2022 08:51:53 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] mm/migrate_device.c: Flush TLB while holding PTL
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To:     Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
        akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc:     Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>, Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>,
        huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>,
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        "Sierra Guiza, Alejandro (Alex)" <alex.sierra@amd.com>,
        Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com>,
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        John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
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        Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
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From:   David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Organization: Red Hat
In-Reply-To: <9f801e9d8d830408f2ca27821f606e09aa856899.1662078528.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com>
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On 02.09.22 02:35, Alistair Popple wrote:
> When clearing a PTE the TLB should be flushed whilst still holding the
> PTL to avoid a potential race with madvise/munmap/etc. For example
> consider the following sequence:
> 
>   CPU0                          CPU1
>   ----                          ----
> 
>   migrate_vma_collect_pmd()
>   pte_unmap_unlock()
>                                 madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)
>                                 -> zap_pte_range()
>                                 pte_offset_map_lock()
>                                 [ PTE not present, TLB not flushed ]
>                                 pte_unmap_unlock()
>                                 [ page is still accessible via stale TLB ]
>   flush_tlb_range()
> 
> In this case the page may still be accessed via the stale TLB entry
> after madvise returns. Fix this by flushing the TLB while holding the
> PTL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
> Reported-by: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
> Fixes: 8c3328f1f36a ("mm/migrate: migrate_vma() unmap page from vma while collecting pages")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> 
> ---
> 
> Changes for v4:
> 
>  - Added Review-by
> 
> Changes for v3:
> 
>  - New for v3
> ---
>  mm/migrate_device.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/migrate_device.c b/mm/migrate_device.c
> index 27fb37d..6a5ef9f 100644
> --- a/mm/migrate_device.c
> +++ b/mm/migrate_device.c
> @@ -254,13 +254,14 @@ static int migrate_vma_collect_pmd(pmd_t *pmdp,
>  		migrate->dst[migrate->npages] = 0;
>  		migrate->src[migrate->npages++] = mpfn;
>  	}
> -	arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
> -	pte_unmap_unlock(ptep - 1, ptl);
>  
>  	/* Only flush the TLB if we actually modified any entries */
>  	if (unmapped)
>  		flush_tlb_range(walk->vma, start, end);
>  
> +	arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
> +	pte_unmap_unlock(ptep - 1, ptl);
> +
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> 
> base-commit: ffcf9c5700e49c0aee42dcba9a12ba21338e8136


Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb