Affected: Linux, Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP, Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP, Siemens SIPLUS S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/hugetlb: fix hugetlb_pmd_shared()

Patch series "mm/hugetlb: fixes for PMD table sharing (incl. using mmu_gather)", v3.

One functional fix, one performance regression fix, and two related comment fixes.

I cleaned up my prototype I recently shared [1] for the performance fix, deferring most of the cleanups I had in the prototype to a later point. While doing that I identified the other things.

The goal of this patch set is to be backported to stable trees "fairly" easily. At least patch #1 and #4.

Patch #1 fixes hugetlb_pmd_shared() not detecting any sharing Patch #2 + #3 are simple comment fixes that patch #4 interacts with. Patch #4 is a fix for the reported performance regression due to excessive IPI broadcasts during fork()+exit().

The last patch is all about TLB flushes, IPIs and mmu_gather. Read: complicated

There are plenty of cleanups in the future to be had + one reasonable optimization on x86. But that's all out of scope for this series.

Runtime tested, with a focus on fixing the performance regression using the original reproducer [2] on x86.

This patch (of 4):

We switched from (wrongly) using the page count to an independent shared count. Now, shared page tables have a refcount of 1 (excluding speculative references) and instead use ptdesc->pt_share_count to identify sharing.

We didn't convert hugetlb_pmd_shared(), so right now, we would never detect a shared PMD table as such, b…