From: Max Boone The splitting of a PUD entry in walk_pud_range() can race with a concurrent thread refaulting the PUD leaf entry causing it to try walking a PMD range that has disappeared. An example and reproduction of this is to try reading numa_maps of a process while VFIO-PCI is setting up DMA (specifically the vfio_pin_pages_remote call) on a large BAR for that process. This will trigger a kernel BUG: vfio-pci 0000:03:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffa23980000000 PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI ... RIP: 0010:walk_pgd_range+0x3b5/0x7a0 Code: 8d 43 ff 48 89 44 24 28 4d 89 ce 4d 8d a7 00 00 20 00 48 8b 4c 24 28 49 81 e4 00 00 e0 ff 49 8d 44 24 ff 48 39 c8 4c 0f 43 e3 <49> f7 06 9f ff ff ff 75 3b 48 8b 44 24 20 48 8b 40 28 48 85 c0 74 RSP: 0018:ffffac23e1ecf808 EFLAGS: 00010287 RAX: 00007f44c01fffff RBX: 00007f4500000000 RCX: 00007f44ffffffff RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000ffffffffff000 RDI: ffffffff93378fe0 RBP: ffffac23e1ecf918 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: ffffa23980000000 R10: 0000000000000020 R11: 0000000000000004 R12: 00007f44c0200000 R13: 00007f44c0000000 R14: ffffa23980000000 R15: 00007f44c0000000 FS: 00007fe884739580(0000) GS:ffff9b7d7a9c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: ffffa23980000000 CR3: 000000c0650e2005 CR4: 0000000000770ef0 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: __walk_page_range+0x195/0x1b0 walk_page_vma+0x62/0xc0 show_numa_map+0x12b/0x3b0 seq_read_iter+0x297/0x440 seq_read+0x11d/0x140 vfs_read+0xc2/0x340 ksys_read+0x5f/0xe0 do_syscall_64+0x68/0x130 ? get_page_from_freelist+0x5c2/0x17e0 ? mas_store_prealloc+0x17e/0x360 ? vma_set_page_prot+0x4c/0xa0 ? __alloc_pages_noprof+0x14e/0x2d0 ? __mod_memcg_lruvec_state+0x8d/0x140 ? __lruvec_stat_mod_folio+0x76/0xb0 ? __folio_mod_stat+0x26/0x80 ? do_anonymous_page+0x705/0x900 ? __handle_mm_fault+0xa8d/0x1000 ? __count_memcg_events+0x53/0xf0 ? handle_mm_fault+0xa5/0x360 ? do_user_addr_fault+0x342/0x640 ? arch_exit_to_user_mode_prepare.constprop.0+0x16/0xa0 ? irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0x24/0x100 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e RIP: 0033:0x7fe88464f47e Code: c0 e9 b6 fe ff ff 50 48 8d 3d be 07 0b 00 e8 69 01 02 00 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 14 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 5a c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 83 ec 28 RSP: 002b:00007ffe6cd9a9b8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000020000 RCX: 00007fe88464f47e RDX: 0000000000020000 RSI: 00007fe884543000 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00007fe884543000 R08: 00007fe884542010 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: fffffffffffffbc5 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000020000 R15: 0000000000020000 Fix this by validating the PUD entry in walk_pmd_range() using a stable snapshot (pudp_get()). If the PUD is not present or is a leaf, retry the walk via ACTION_AGAIN instead of descending further. This mirrors the retry logic in walk_pmd_range(). Fixes: a00cc7d9dd93 ("mm, x86: add support for PUD-sized transparent hugepages") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Co-developed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Signed-off-by: Max Boone --- mm/pagewalk.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/pagewalk.c b/mm/pagewalk.c index a94c401ab..c74b4d800 100644 --- a/mm/pagewalk.c +++ b/mm/pagewalk.c @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ static int walk_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, static int walk_pmd_range(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, struct mm_walk *walk) { + pud_t pudval = pudp_get(pud); pmd_t *pmd; unsigned long next; const struct mm_walk_ops *ops = walk->ops; @@ -105,6 +106,18 @@ static int walk_pmd_range(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, int err = 0; int depth = real_depth(3); + /* + * For PTE handling, pte_offset_map_lock() takes care of checking + * whether there actually is a page table. But it also has to be + * very careful about concurrent page table reclaim. If we spot a PMD + * table, it cannot go away, so we can just walk it. However, if we find + * something else, we have to retry. + */ + if (!pud_present(pudval) || pud_leaf(pudval)) { + walk->action = ACTION_AGAIN; + return 0; + } + pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr); do { again: @@ -218,12 +231,13 @@ static int walk_pud_range(p4d_t *p4d, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, else if (pud_leaf(*pud) || !pud_present(*pud)) continue; /* Nothing to do. */ - if (pud_none(*pud)) - goto again; - err = walk_pmd_range(pud, addr, next, walk); if (err) break; + + if (walk->action == ACTION_AGAIN) + goto again; + } while (pud++, addr = next, addr != end); return err; --- base-commit: b4f0dd314b39ea154f62f3bd3115ed0470f9f71e change-id: 20260317-pagewalk-check-pmd-refault-de8f14fbe6a5 Best regards, -- Max Boone