[PATCH] hugetlb: move stale pte check into huge_pte_alloc()

Initial Post (Wed, 17 Aug 2005)

This patch moves the
	if (! pte_none(*pte))
		hugetlb_clean_stale_pgtable(pte);
logic into huge_pte_alloc() so all of its callers can be immune to the bug
described by Kenneth Chen at http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/6/16/246

> It turns out there is a bug in hugetlb_prefault(): with 3 level page table,
> huge_pte_alloc() might return a pmd that points to a PTE page. It happens
> if the virtual address for hugetlb mmap is recycled from previously used
> normal page mmap. free_pgtables() might not scrub the pmd entry on
> munmap and hugetlb_prefault skips on any pmd presence regardless what type
> it is.

Unless I am missing something, it seems more correct to place the check inside
huge_pte_alloc() to prevent a the same bug wherever a huge pte is allocated.
It also allows checking for this condition when lazily faulting huge pages
later in the series.

Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/arch/i386/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/i386/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index 3b099f3..57c486f 100644
--- a/arch/i386/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/i386/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -22,12 +22,21 @@ pte_t *huge_pte_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
 {
 	pgd_t *pgd;
 	pud_t *pud;
-	pmd_t *pmd = NULL;
+	pmd_t *pmd;
+	pte_t *pte = NULL;
 
 	pgd = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
 	pud = pud_alloc(mm, pgd, addr);
 	pmd = pmd_alloc(mm, pud, addr);
-	return (pte_t *) pmd;
+
+	if (!pmd)
+		goto out;
+
+	pte = (pte_t *) pmd;
+	if (!pte_none(*pte) && !pte_huge(*pte))
+		hugetlb_clean_stale_pgtable(pte);
+out:
+	return pte;
 }
 
 pte_t *huge_pte_offset(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 6bf720b..901ac52 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -360,8 +360,6 @@ int hugetlb_prefault(struct address_space *mapping, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 			ret = -ENOMEM;
 			goto out;
 		}
-		if (! pte_none(*pte))
-			hugetlb_clean_stale_pgtable(pte);
 
 		idx = ((addr - vma->vm_start) >> HPAGE_SHIFT)
 			+ (vma->vm_pgoff >> (HPAGE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT));