From: Muchun Song songmuchun@bytedance.com
mainline inclusion from mainline-v5.19-rc1 commit 1e63ac088f20f7a4425c430c31ecd3cf167fb3f2 category: feature bugzilla: 187198, https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I5GVFO CVE: NA
Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?i...
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The feature of minimizing overhead of struct page associated with each HugeTLB page aims to free its vmemmap pages (used as struct page) to save memory, where is ~14GB/16GB per 1TB HugeTLB pages (2MB/1GB type). In short, when a HugeTLB page is allocated or freed, the vmemmap array representing the range associated with the page will need to be remapped. When a page is allocated, vmemmap pages are freed after remapping. When a page is freed, previously discarded vmemmap pages must be allocated before remapping. More implementations and details can be found here [1].
The infrastructure of freeing vmemmap pages associated with each HugeTLB page is already there, we can easily enable HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP for arm64, the only thing to be fixed is flush_dcache_page() .
flush_dcache_page() need to be adapted to operate on the head page's flags since the tail vmemmap pages are mapped with read-only after the feature is enabled (clear operation is not permitted).
There was some discussions about this in the thread [2], but there was no conclusion in the end. And I copied the concern proposed by Anshuman to here and explain why those concern is superfluous. It is safe to enable it for x86_64 as well as arm64.
1st concern: ''' But what happens when a hot remove section's vmemmap area (which is being teared down) is nearby another vmemmap area which is either created or being destroyed for HugeTLB alloc/free purpose. As you mentioned HugeTLB pages inside the hot remove section might be safe. But what about other HugeTLB areas whose vmemmap area shares page table entries with vmemmap entries for a section being hot removed ? Massive HugeTLB alloc /use/free test cycle using memory just adjacent to a memory hotplug area, which is always added and removed periodically, should be able to expose this problem. '''
Answer: At the time memory is removed, all HugeTLB pages either have been migrated away or dissolved. So there is no race between memory hot remove and free_huge_page_vmemmap(). Therefore, HugeTLB pages inside the hot remove section is safe. Let's talk your question "what about other HugeTLB areas whose vmemmap area shares page table entries with vmemmap entries for a section being hot removed ?", the question is not established. The minimal granularity size of hotplug memory 128MB (on arm64, 4k base page), any HugeTLB smaller than 128MB is within a section, then, there is no share PTE page tables between HugeTLB in this section and ones in other sections and a HugeTLB page could not cross two sections. In this case, the section cannot be freed. Any HugeTLB bigger than 128MB (section size) whose vmemmap pages is an integer multiple of 2MB (PMD-mapped). As long as:
1) HugeTLBs are naturally aligned, power-of-two sizes 2) The HugeTLB size >= the section size 3) The HugeTLB size >= the vmemmap leaf mapping size
Then a HugeTLB will not share any leaf page table entries with *anything else*, but will share intermediate entries. In this case, at the time memory is removed, all HugeTLB pages either have been migrated away or dissolved. So there is also no race between memory hot remove and free_huge_page_vmemmap().
2nd concern: ''' differently, not sure if ptdump would require any synchronization.
Dumping an wrong value is probably okay but crashing because a page table entry is being freed after ptdump acquired the pointer is bad. On arm64, ptdump() is protected against hotremove via [get|put]_online_mems(). '''
Answer: The ptdump should be fine since vmemmap_remap_free() only exchanges PTEs or splits the PMD entry (which means allocating a PTE page table). Both operations do not free any page tables (PTE), so ptdump cannot run into a UAF on any page tables. The worst case is just dumping an wrong value.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210510030027.56044-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210518091826.36937-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com/
[songmuchun@bytedance.com: restructure the code comment inside flush_dcache_page()] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220414072646.21910-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220331065640.5777-2-songmuchun@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Muchun Song songmuchun@bytedance.com Reviewed-by: Barry Song baohua@kernel.org Tested-by: Barry Song baohua@kernel.org Cc: Will Deacon will@kernel.org Cc: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Cc: Bodeddula Balasubramaniam bodeddub@amazon.com Cc: Oscar Salvador osalvador@suse.de Cc: Mike Kravetz mike.kravetz@oracle.com Cc: David Rientjes rientjes@google.com Cc: Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com Cc: Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas@arm.com Cc: James Morse james.morse@arm.com Cc: Xiongchun Duan duanxiongchun@bytedance.com Cc: Fam Zheng fam.zheng@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin liushixin2@huawei.com Reviewed-by: Kefeng Wang wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Zheng Zengkai zhengzengkai@huawei.com --- arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 + arch/arm64/mm/flush.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig index e253fdba1249..d9da5c4f91e0 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ config ARM64 select ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_TOPDOWN_MMAP_LAYOUT select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS select ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE if ARM64_4K_PAGES || (ARM64_16K_PAGES && !ARM64_VA_BITS_36) + select ARCH_WANT_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP select ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN select ARCH_WANT_RESERVE_CRASH_KERNEL if KEXEC_CORE select ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c b/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c index 145fe60c5e68..2bb6defad92f 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c @@ -69,6 +69,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__sync_icache_dcache); */ void flush_dcache_page(struct page *page) { + /* + * Only the head page's flags of HugeTLB can be cleared since the tail + * vmemmap pages associated with each HugeTLB page are mapped with + * read-only when CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP is enabled (more + * details can refer to vmemmap_remap_pte()). Although + * __sync_icache_dcache() only set PG_dcache_clean flag on the head + * page struct, there is more than one page struct with PG_dcache_clean + * associated with the HugeTLB page since the head vmemmap page frame + * is reused (more details can refer to the comments above + * page_fixed_fake_head()). + */ + if (hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled() && PageHuge(page)) + page = compound_head(page); + if (test_bit(PG_dcache_clean, &page->flags)) clear_bit(PG_dcache_clean, &page->flags); }