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    mm: take a page reference when removing device exclusive entries · 7c7b9629
    Alistair Popple authored
    Device exclusive page table entries are used to prevent CPU access to a
    page whilst it is being accessed from a device.  Typically this is used to
    implement atomic operations when the underlying bus does not support
    atomic access.  When a CPU thread encounters a device exclusive entry it
    locks the page and restores the original entry after calling mmu notifiers
    to signal drivers that exclusive access is no longer available.
    
    The device exclusive entry holds a reference to the page making it safe to
    access the struct page whilst the entry is present.  However the fault
    handling code does not hold the PTL when taking the page lock.  This means
    if there are multiple threads faulting concurrently on the device
    exclusive entry one will remove the entry whilst others will wait on the
    page lock without holding a reference.
    
    This can lead to threads locking or waiting on a folio with a zero
    refcount.  Whilst mmap_lock prevents the pages getting freed via munmap()
    they may still be freed by a migration.  This leads to warnings such as
    PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE due to the page being locked when the refcount
    drops to zero.
    
    Fix this by trying to take a reference on the folio before locking it. 
    The code already checks the PTE under the PTL and aborts if the entry is
    no longer there.  It is also possible the folio has been unmapped, freed
    and re-allocated allowing a reference to be taken on an unrelated folio. 
    This case is also detected by the PTE check and the folio is unlocked
    without further changes.
    
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230330012519.804116-1-apopple@nvidia.com
    Fixes: b756a3b5 ("mm: device exclusive memory access")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarRalph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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