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Ackerley Tng reported an issue with hugetlbfs fallocate here[1]. The
issue showed up after the conversion of hugetlb page cache lookup code to
use page_cache_next_miss. Code in hugetlb fallocate, userfaultfd and GUP
is now using page_cache_next_miss to determine if a page is present the
page cache. The following statement is used.
present = page_cache_next_miss(mapping, index, 1) != index;
There are two issues with page_cache_next_miss when used in this way.
1) If the passed value for index is equal to the 'wrap-around' value,
the same index will always be returned. This wrap-around value is 0,
so 0 will be returned even if page is present at index 0.
2) If there is no gap in the range passed, the last index in the range
will be returned. When passed a range of 1 as above, the passed
index value will be returned even if the page is present.
The end result is the statement above will NEVER indicate a page is
present in the cache, even if it is.
As noted by Ackerley in [1], users can see this by hugetlb fallocate
incorrectly returning EEXIST if pages are already present in the file. In
addition, hugetlb pages will not be included in core dumps if they need to
be brought in via GUP. userfaultfd UFFDIO_COPY also uses this code and
will not notice pages already present in the cache. It may try to
allocate a new page and potentially return ENOMEM as opposed to EEXIST.
Both page_cache_next_miss and page_cache_prev_miss have similar issues.
Fix by:
- Check for index equal to 'wrap-around' value and do not exit early.
- If no gap is found in range, return index outside range.
- Update function description to say 'wrap-around' value could be
returned if passed as index.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/cover.1683069252.git.ackerleytng@google.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230602225747.103865-2-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
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| README | ||
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