From: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>
Subject: mm: hugetlb: call huge_pte_alloc() only if ptep is null

Currently at the beginning of hugetlb_fault(), we call huge_pte_offset()
and check whether the obtained *ptep is a migration/hwpoison entry or not.
 And if not, then we get to call huge_pte_alloc().  This is racy because
the *ptep could turn into migration/hwpoison entry after the
huge_pte_offset() check.  This race results in BUG_ON in huge_pte_alloc().

We don't have to call huge_pte_alloc() when the huge_pte_offset() returns
non-NULL, so let's fix this bug with moving the code into else block.

Note that the *ptep could turn into a migration/hwpoison entry after this
block, but that's not a problem because we have another !pte_present check
later (we never go into hugetlb_no_page() in that case.)

Fixes: 290408d4a250 ("hugetlb: hugepage migration core")
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>    [2.6.36+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---

 mm/hugetlb.c |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff -puN mm/hugetlb.c~mm-hugetlb-call-huge_pte_alloc-only-if-ptep-is-null 
mm/hugetlb.c
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c~mm-hugetlb-call-huge_pte_alloc-only-if-ptep-is-null
+++ a/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3696,12 +3696,12 @@ int hugetlb_fault(struct mm_struct *mm,
                } else if (unlikely(is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned(entry)))
                        return VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE |
                                VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX(hstate_index(h));
+       } else {
+               ptep = huge_pte_alloc(mm, address, huge_page_size(h));
+               if (!ptep)
+                       return VM_FAULT_OOM;
        }
 
-       ptep = huge_pte_alloc(mm, address, huge_page_size(h));
-       if (!ptep)
-               return VM_FAULT_OOM;
-
        mapping = vma->vm_file->f_mapping;
        idx = vma_hugecache_offset(h, vma, address);
 
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