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syzbot reports oops in lockdep's __lock_acquire(), called from __pte_offset_map_lock() called from filemap_map_pages(); or when I run the repro, the oops comes in pmd_install(), called from filemap_map_pmd() called from filemap_map_pages(), just before the __pte_offset_map_lock(). The problem is that filemap_map_pmd() has been assuming that when it finds pmd_none(), a page table has already been prepared in prealloc_pte; and indeed do_fault_around() has been careful to preallocate one there, when it finds pmd_none(): but what if *pmd became none in between? My 6.6 mods in mm/khugepaged.c, avoiding mmap_lock for write, have made it easy for *pmd to be cleared while servicing a page fault; but even before those, a huge *pmd might be zapped while a fault is serviced. The difference in symptomatic stack traces comes from the "memory model" in use: pmd_install() uses pmd_populate() uses page_to_pfn(): in some models that is strict, and will oops on the NULL prealloc_pte; in other models, it will construct a bogus value to be populated into *pmd, then __pte_offset_map_lock() oops when trying to access split ptlock pointer (or some other symptom in normal case of ptlock embedded not pointer). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20231115065506.19780-1-jose.pekkarinen@foxhound.fi/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6ed0c50c-78ef-0719-b3c5-60c0c010431c@google.com Fixes: f9ce0be71d1f ("mm: Cleanup faultaround and finish_fault() codepaths") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+89edd67979b52675ddec@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/0000000000005e44550608a0806c@google.com/ Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>, Cc: José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@foxhound.fi> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [5.12+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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