Commit 4b69ffe3 authored by Ingo Molnar's avatar Ingo Molnar Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86: fix global_flush_tlb() bug

patch 9a24d04a upstream

While we were reviewing pageattr_32/64.c for unification,
Thomas Gleixner noticed the following serious SMP bug in
global_flush_tlb():

	down_read(&init_mm.mmap_sem);
	list_replace_init(&deferred_pages, &l);
	up_read(&init_mm.mmap_sem);

this is SMP-unsafe because list_replace_init() done on two CPUs in
parallel can corrupt the list.

This bug has been introduced about a year ago in the 64-bit tree:

       commit ea7322de
       Author: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
       Date:   Thu Dec 7 02:14:05 2006 +0100

       [PATCH] x86-64: Speed and clean up cache flushing in change_page_attr

                down_read(&init_mm.mmap_sem);
        -       dpage = xchg(&deferred_pages, NULL);
        +       list_replace_init(&deferred_pages, &l);
                up_read(&init_mm.mmap_sem);

the xchg() based version was SMP-safe, but list_replace_init() is not.
So this "cleanup" introduced a nasty bug.

why this bug never become prominent is a mystery - it can probably be
explained with the (still) relative obscurity of the x86_64 architecture.

the safe fix for now is to write-lock init_mm.mmap_sem.
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent ba4312eb
...@@ -229,9 +229,14 @@ void global_flush_tlb(void) ...@@ -229,9 +229,14 @@ void global_flush_tlb(void)
struct page *pg, *next; struct page *pg, *next;
struct list_head l; struct list_head l;
down_read(&init_mm.mmap_sem); /*
* Write-protect the semaphore, to exclude two contexts
* doing a list_replace_init() call in parallel and to
* exclude new additions to the deferred_pages list:
*/
down_write(&init_mm.mmap_sem);
list_replace_init(&deferred_pages, &l); list_replace_init(&deferred_pages, &l);
up_read(&init_mm.mmap_sem); up_write(&init_mm.mmap_sem);
flush_map(&l); flush_map(&l);
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