[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 <[e-mail]>
Cc: <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[e-mail]>

arch/i386/mm/hugetlbpage.c

···
 {
 	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)

mm/hugetlb.c

···
 			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));