mm/hugetlb: fix huge_pmd_unshare() vs GUP-fast race
huge_pmd_unshare() drops a reference on a page table that may have previously been shared across processes, potentially turning it into a normal page table used in another process in which unrelated VMAs can afterwards be installed. If this happens in the middle of a concurrent gup_fast(), gup_fast() could end up walking the page tables of another process. While I don't see any way in which that immediately leads to kernel memory corruption, it is really weird and unexpected. Fix it with an explicit broadcast IPI through tlb_remove_table_sync_one(), just like we do in khugepaged when removing page tables for a THP collapse. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250528-hugetlb-fixes-splitrace-v2-2-1329349bad1a@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250527-hugetlb-fixes-splitrace-v1-2-f4136f5ec58a@google.com Fixes: 39dde65c ("[PATCH] shared page table for hugetlb page") Signed-off-by:Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Reviewed-by:
Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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