[PATCH V2] arm64/hugetlb: Fix page table walk in huge_pte_alloc()

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Mon Apr 15 02:40:03 PDT 2024


Currently normal HugeTLB fault ends up crashing the kernel, as p4dp derived
from p4d_offset() is an invalid address when PGTABLE_LEVEL = 5. A p4d level
entry needs to be allocated when not available while walking the page table
during HugeTLB faults. Let's call p4d_alloc() to allocate such entries when
required instead of current p4d_offset().

 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffff80000000
 Mem abort info:
   ESR = 0x0000000096000005
   EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
   SET = 0, FnV = 0
   EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
   FSC = 0x05: level 1 translation fault
 Data abort info:
   ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000005, ISS2 = 0x00000000
   CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
   GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
 swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 52-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000081da9000
 [ffffffff80000000] pgd=1000000082cec003, p4d=0000000082c32003, pud=0000000000000000
 Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000005 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 Modules linked in:
 CPU: 1 PID: 108 Comm: high_addr_hugep Not tainted 6.9.0-rc4 #48
 Hardware name: Foundation-v8A (DT)
 pstate: 01402005 (nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
 pc : huge_pte_alloc+0xd4/0x334
 lr : hugetlb_fault+0x1b8/0xc68
 sp : ffff8000833bbc20
 x29: ffff8000833bbc20 x28: fff000080080cb58 x27: ffff800082a7cc58
 x26: 0000000000000000 x25: fff0000800378e40 x24: fff00008008d6c60
 x23: 00000000de9dbf07 x22: fff0000800378e40 x21: 0004000000000000
 x20: 0004000000000000 x19: ffffffff80000000 x18: 1ffe00010011d7a1
 x17: 0000000000000001 x16: ffffffffffffffff x15: 0000000000000001
 x14: 0000000000000000 x13: ffff8000816120d0 x12: ffffffffffffffff
 x11: 0000000000000000 x10: fff00008008ebd0c x9 : 0004000000000000
 x8 : 0000000000001255 x7 : fff00008003e2000 x6 : 00000000061d54b0
 x5 : 0000000000001000 x4 : ffffffff80000000 x3 : 0000000000200000
 x2 : 0000000000000004 x1 : 0000000080000000 x0 : 0000000000000000
 Call trace:
 huge_pte_alloc+0xd4/0x334
 hugetlb_fault+0x1b8/0xc68
 handle_mm_fault+0x260/0x29c
 do_page_fault+0xfc/0x47c
 do_translation_fault+0x68/0x74
 do_mem_abort+0x44/0x94
 el0_da+0x2c/0x9c
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x70/0xc4
 el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194
 Code: aa000084 cb010084 b24c2c84 8b130c93 (f9400260)
 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts at arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a6bbf5d4d9d1 ("arm64: mm: Add definitions to support 5 levels of paging")
Reported-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain at arm.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
---
This patch applies on v6.9-rc4

Changes in V2:

- Added NULL check for p4dp

V1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240415063110.1795707-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com/

 arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index 0f0e10bb0a95..b872b003a55f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -276,7 +276,10 @@ pte_t *huge_pte_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	pte_t *ptep = NULL;
 
 	pgdp = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
-	p4dp = p4d_offset(pgdp, addr);
+	p4dp = p4d_alloc(mm, pgdp, addr);
+	if (!p4dp)
+		return NULL;
+
 	pudp = pud_alloc(mm, p4dp, addr);
 	if (!pudp)
 		return NULL;
-- 
2.25.1




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