From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Yi Zhang <yi.zhang@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org,
willy@infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] x86/mm: Fix leak of pmd ptlock
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2020 22:28:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <160697689204.605323.17629854984697045602.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
Commit 28ee90fe6048 ("x86/mm: implement free pmd/pte page interfaces")
introduced a new location where a pmd was released, but neglected to run
the pmd page destructor. In fact, this happened previously for a
different pmd release path and was fixed by commit:
c283610e44ec ("x86, mm: do not leak page->ptl for pmd page tables").
This issue was hidden until recently because the failure mode is silent,
but commit:
b2b29d6d0119 ("mm: account PMD tables like PTE tables")
...turns the failure mode into this signature:
BUG: Bad page state in process lt-pmem-ns pfn:15943d
page:000000007262ed7b refcount:0 mapcount:-1024 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x15943d
flags: 0xaffff800000000()
raw: 00affff800000000 dead000000000100 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 ffff913a029bcc08 00000000fffffbff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: nonzero mapcount
[..]
dump_stack+0x8b/0xb0
bad_page.cold+0x63/0x94
free_pcp_prepare+0x224/0x270
free_unref_page+0x18/0xd0
pud_free_pmd_page+0x146/0x160
ioremap_pud_range+0xe3/0x350
ioremap_page_range+0x108/0x160
__ioremap_caller.constprop.0+0x174/0x2b0
? memremap+0x7a/0x110
memremap+0x7a/0x110
devm_memremap+0x53/0xa0
pmem_attach_disk+0x4ed/0x530 [nd_pmem]
? __devm_release_region+0x52/0x80
nvdimm_bus_probe+0x85/0x210 [libnvdimm]
Given this is a repeat occurrence it seemed prudent to look for other
places where this destructor might be missing and whether a better
helper is needed. try_to_free_pmd_page() looks like a candidate, but
testing with setting up and tearing down pmd mappings via the dax unit
tests is thus far not triggering the failure. As for a better helper
pmd_free() is close, but it is a messy fit due to requiring an @mm arg.
Also, ___pmd_free_tlb() wants to call paravirt_tlb_remove_table()
instead of free_page(), so open-coded pgtable_pmd_page_dtor() seems the
best way forward for now.
Fixes: 28ee90fe6048 ("x86/mm: implement free pmd/pte page interfaces")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Co-debugged-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Yi Zhang <yi.zhang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
---
arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
index dfd82f51ba66..f6a9e2e36642 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -829,6 +829,8 @@ int pud_free_pmd_page(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr)
}
free_page((unsigned long)pmd_sv);
+
+ pgtable_pmd_page_dtor(virt_to_page(pmd));
free_page((unsigned long)pmd);
return 1;
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next reply other threads:[~2020-12-03 6:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-03 6:28 Dan Williams [this message]
2020-12-03 10:54 ` [PATCH] x86/mm: Fix leak of pmd ptlock Peter Zijlstra
2020-12-16 3:25 ` Dan Williams
2021-01-05 4:18 ` Dan Williams
2021-01-05 15:40 ` Dave Hansen
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